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Timeline of 2006
A chronological record of notable events of the year 2006, sourced from the knowledge table in README.md and dedicated topic files.
| Date | Item | Category | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-01-04 | Ariel Sharon suffers a massive stroke | History & Politics | file |
| 2006-01-19 | New Horizons launches to Pluto | Science & Technology | file |
| 2006-01-25 | Hamas wins the Palestinian legislative election | History & Politics | file |
| 2006-01-30 | Coretta Scott King dies | People | file |
| 2006-02-04 | The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy | History & Politics | file |
| 2006-02-10 | Turin hosts the 2006 Winter Olympics | Arts & Culture | file |
| 2006-02-22 | The al-Askari Mosque is bombed in Samarra | History & Politics | file |
| 2006-02-23 | iTunes Music Store reaches one billionth song download | Science & Technology | file |
| 2006-03-05 | Brokeback Mountain dominates the 2006 awards season | Arts & Culture | file |
| 2006-03-11 | Slobodan Milošević dies on trial | People | file |
| 2006-03-14 | Amazon launches S3, pioneering cloud storage infrastructure | Science & Technology | file |
| 2006-03-17 | V for Vendetta and the graphic-novel adaptation boom | Arts & Culture | file |
| 2006-03-20 | Japan wins the inaugural World Baseball Classic | Arts & Culture | file |
| 2006-04-11 | Iran nuclear crisis and UN sanctions | History & Politics | file |
| 2006-04-24 | Nepal’s democracy movement ends absolute monarchy | History & Politics | file |
| 2006-04-30 | 2006 Housing Market Peak & Subprime Warning Signs | Society & Economics | file |
| 2006-05-01 | The 2006 U.S. immigration-reform protests | Society & Economics | file |
| 2006-05-17 | Barcelona wins the UEFA Champions League Final | Arts & Culture | file |
| 2006-05-19 | The Da Vinci Code film adaptation released | Arts & Culture | file |
| 2006-05-24 | An Inconvenient Truth released | Arts & Culture | file |
| 2006-05-25 | Enron executives convicted | Society & Economics | file |
| 2006-05-27 | May 2006 Java earthquake | History & Politics | file |
| 2006-05-28 | East Timor violence and Australian intervention | History & Politics | file |
| 2006-06-01 | H5N1 avian influenza spreads globally | Science & Technology | file |
| 2006-06-01 | Blu-ray and HD-DVD format war begins | Science & Technology | file |
| 2006-06-03 | Montenegro becomes independent | History & Politics | file |
| 2006-06-04 | Roger Federer’s peak season | People | file |
| 2006-06-15 | Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Advances | Science & Technology | file |
| 2006-06-16 | Jack Black stars in Jared Hess’s Nacho Libre | Arts & Culture | file |
| 2006-06-17 | Shakira’s “Hips Don’t Lie” tops the charts | Arts & Culture | file |
| 2006-06-23 | Aaron Spelling dies | People | file |
| 2006-06-25 | Warren Buffett pledges his fortune to charity | Society & Economics | file |
| 2006-06-28 | Superman Returns premieres | Arts & Culture | file |
| 2006-06-30 | The Devil Wears Prada released | Arts & Culture | file |
| 2006-06-30 | Darfur genocide crisis and international response | History & Politics | file |
| 2006-07-07 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest released | Arts & Culture | file |
| 2006-07-08 | MySpace reaches its social-networking peak | Science & Technology | file |
| 2006-07-09 | Italy wins the FIFA World Cup | Arts & Culture | file |
| 2006-07-09 | Zinedine Zidane’s final season and retirement | People | file |
| 2006-07-11 | Mumbai suburban train bombings | History & Politics | file |
| 2006-07-12 | 2006 Lebanon War begins | History & Politics | file |
| 2006-07-14 | Crude oil prices surge to record highs | Society & Economics | file |
| 2006-07-14 | The 2006 Climate & Energy Nexus | Society & Economics | file |
| 2006-07-15 | Twitter launched | Science & Technology | file |
| 2006-07-23 | 2006 Tour de France and the Landis affair | Arts & Culture | file |
| 2006-07-26 | Little Miss Sunshine released | Arts & Culture | file |
| 2006-07-28 | Mel Gibson arrested for DUI, makes antisemitic remarks | People | file |
| 2006-07-31 | Fidel Castro steps down, transferring power to Raúl | History & Politics | file |
| 2006-08-10 | The 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot is foiled | History & Politics | file |
| 2006-08-14 | The 2006 Sony laptop battery recall begins | Science & Technology | file |
| 2006-08-22 | Perelman proves the Poincaré conjecture and declines the Fields Medal | Science & Technology | file |
| 2006-08-24 | Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet | Science & Technology | file |
| 2006-09-01 | 2006 technology boom: Web 2.0 IPOs and corporate deals | Society & Economics | file |
| 2006-09-04 | Steve Irwin dies | People | file |
| 2006-09-05 | Facebook launches News Feed and opens registration | Science & Technology | file |
| 2006-09-06 | Vivendi acquires BMG Music Publishing | Society & Economics | file |
| 2006-09-19 | Thai military coup deposes Thaksin | History & Politics | file |
| 2006-10-01 | Record wave of corporate mergers and acquisitions | Society & Economics | file |
| 2006-10-09 | North Korea’s first nuclear test | History & Politics | file |
| 2006-10-09 | Google acquires YouTube | Science & Technology | file |
| 2006-10-12 | Orhan Pamuk wins the Nobel Prize in Literature | Arts & Culture | file |
| 2006-10-13 | Yunus and Grameen Bank win the Nobel Peace Prize | Society & Economics | file |
| 2006-10-30 | The Stern Review on the economics of climate change | Society & Economics | file |
| 2006-11-03 | Borat released | Arts & Culture | file |
| 2006-11-07 | U.S. Democrats win midterm elections | History & Politics | file |
| 2006-11-08 | Windows Vista completed | Science & Technology | file |
| 2006-11-11 | PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii launch | Science & Technology | file |
| 2006-11-16 | Milton Friedman dies | People | file |
| 2006-11-17 | Casino Royale released | Arts & Culture | file |
| 2006-11-20 | Robert Altman dies | People | file |
| 2006-11-23 | Alexander Litvinenko poisoned in London | History & Politics | file |
| 2006-12-01 | Doha hosts the 2006 Asian Games | Arts & Culture | file |
| 2006-12-10 | Augusto Pinochet dies | People | file |
| 2006-12-16 | Time names “You” Person of the Year | Society & Economics | file |
| 2006-12-25 | James Brown dies | People | file |
| 2006-12-26 | Gerald Ford dies | People | file |
| 2006-12-30 | Saddam Hussein executed | History & Politics | file |
| 2006-12-31 | The Web 2.0 Revolution of 2006 | Science & Technology | file |
Generated from 77 knowledge-table rows; all 77 resolve to dedicated topic files. Year-spanning analytical topics are anchored to a representative dated milestone: the housing-market peak to the April 2006 home-price peak, the climate-and-energy nexus to the July 14 record oil price, the Web 2.0 revolution to a December 31 year-end synthesis, the H5N1 global spread to its mid-2006 peak, the Iran nuclear crisis to Iran’s April 11 enrichment announcement, Federer’s peak season to his first French Open final run in early June, the year-long Darfur genocide crisis to a June 30 mid-crisis point between the May 5 Darfur Peace Agreement and the August 31 UN Resolution 1706, MySpace’s 2006 peak to the July 8 week it became the most-visited U.S. website, the Blu-ray/HD-DVD format war to the June 2006 U.S. player launches, and the record corporate M&A wave to the October Google–YouTube deal.