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2006 Calendar
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February
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April
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May
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June
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July
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August
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September
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October
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November
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December
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[edit] Events

  • 1522 - Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually re-settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.
  • 1803 - Louisiana Purchase completed
  • 1860 - South Carolina becomes first state to secede from the United States
  • 1915 - Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli
  • 1917 - Cheka, first Soviet secret police, founded
  • 1952 - United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87
  • 1960 - National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed
  • 1984 - The Summit tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million litres of petrol derails near the town of Todmorden in the Pennines
  • 1988 - The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
  • 1989 - Operation Just Cause: United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega
  • 1995 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) begins peacekeeping in Bosnia
  • 1995 - An American Airlines Flight 965 Boeing 757 crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 160
  • 1999 - Vermont's Supreme Court rules that homosexual couples are entitled to same benefits and protections as married heterosexual couples
  • 1999 - Macau is handed over to the People's Republic of China by Portugal.
  • 2002 - US Senator Trent Lott resigns as majority leader.