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Events from the year 2006 in the United States.
* March 2 – The colorized $10 bill is released, with the same color-shifting ink and security features of the $20 and $50 bills that preceded it.
* March 4 – The final contact attempt with
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* January 1
** Harry Magdoff, economist, (b. 1913)
** Gideon Rodan, Romanian-born American physician (b. 1934)
** Hubert Schoemaker, Dutch-born American biochemist and executive (b. 1950)
* January 6
** Lou Rawls, African-American singer, songwriter and actor (b. 1933)
** Hugh Thompson, Jr., soldier and pilot (b. 1943)
* January 8 – David Rosenbaum (journalist), David Rosenbaum, journalist (b. 1942)
* January 9
** Elliot Forbes, conductor and musicologist (b. 1917)
** W. Cleon Skousen, American conservative author and professor (b. 1913)
* January 10 – Ira Black, physician and neuroscientist (b. 1941)
* January 11
** Nixzmary Brown, murder victim (b. 1998)
** Eric Namesnik, swimmer (b. 1970)
* January 12
** Eldon Dedini, cartoonist (b. 1921)
** Anne Meacham, actress (b. 1925)
* January 14 – Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
* January 15 – Edward N. Hall, Edward Hall, aeronautical engineer and brother of Theodore Hall (b. 1914)
* January 16 – Stanley Biber, surgeon (b. 1923)
* January 18 – Thomas Murphy (chairman), Thomas Murphy, executive (b. 1915)
* January 19
** Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
** Wilson Pickett, singer and songwriter (b. 1941)
* January 23
** David Weber (clarinetist), David Weber, Lithuanian-born American musician (b. 1913)
** Samuel Koster, general and murderer (b. 1919)
* January 24 – Chris Penn, actor and brother of Sean Penn (b. 1965)
* January 25 – Herbert Schilder, dental surgeon (b. 1929)
* January 28 – Helmut W. Schulz, German physicist and chemical engineer, died in White Plains, New York, White Plains, New York (b. 1912)
* January 30
** Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist (b. 1927)
** Wendy Wasserstein, writer (b. 1950)
* January 31
** George Koval, Soviet intelligence agent (b. 1913 in the United States, 1913)
** Paul Regina, actor (b. 1956 in the United States, 1956)
* February 1 – Dick Brooks, auto racer (b. 1942)
* February 3
** Lou Jones (athlete), Lou Jones, track and field athlete (b. 1932)
** Al Lewis (actor), Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)
* February 4
** Betty Friedan, American feminist, activist, and writer (b. 1921)
** William Augustus Jones Jr., William Jones, minister and civil rights activist (b. 1934)
* February 8 – Barry Martin, dancer, choreographer, and murder victim (b. 1962)
* February 10
** J Dilla, American music producer (b. 1974)
** Norman Shumway, surgeon (b. 1923)
** John Belluso, writer (b. 1969)
* February 12 – Peter Benchley, writer (b. 1940)
* February 13 – Andreas Katsulas, American actor (b. 1946)
* February 20 – Curt Gowdy, sports announcer (b. 1919)
* February 24
** Don Knotts, actor and comedian (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
** Dennis Weaver, actor (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
* February 25 – Darren McGavin, actor (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* February 28 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
* March 1 – Harry Browne, politician and author (b. 1933)
* March 2 – Phyllis Huffman, American casting director (b. 1944)
* March 5 – Richard Kuklinski, American hitman (b. 1935)
* March 6 – Dana Reeve, American actress (b. 1961)
* March 7 – Gordon Parks, American photographer (b. 1912)
* March 10
**Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)
**Ronald H. Nash, American philosopher (b. 1936)
* March 13 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* March 17 – Bob Papenbrook, voice actor (b. 1955 in the United States, 1955)
* March 21 – Bob Delegall, actor, director and producer (b. 1945)
* March 23 – Desmond Doss, combat medic (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
* March 25
** Richard Fleischer, film director (b. 1916)
** Buck Owens, singer, bandleader, and TV host (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* March 26 – Paul Dana, racing driver (b. 1975 in the United States, 1975)
* March 28
** Jerry Brudos, murderer (b. 1939)
** Charles Schepens, Belgium-born American ophthalmologist, surgeon, and insurgent (b. 1912)
** Caspar Weinberger, 15th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
* March 29 – Don Alias, musician (b. 1939)
* March 30 – Philip Hyde (photographer), Philip Hyde, American wildlife photographer (b. 1921)
* March 31 – Jackie McLean, American jazz musician (b. 1931)
* April 3
** Marshall Goldberg, American football player (b. 1917)
** Al Harker, American soccer player (b. 1910)
* April 4 – Fred J. Christensen, American fighter pilot (b. 1921)
* April 5 – Gene Pitney, singer (b. 1941)
* April 6 – Francis L. Kellogg, diplomat and prominent socialite (b. 1917)
* April 9
** Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player (b. 1916)
** Jimmy Outlaw, American baseball player (b. 1913)
* April 11 – Proof (rapper), Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
* April 15 – Louise Smith, American race car driver (b. 1916)
* April 16
** Morton Freedgood, American author (b. 1913)
** Daniel Schaefer, American politician (b. 1936)
* April 17 – Al Cederberg, American politician (b. 1918)
* April 19 – Bob Dove, American football player (b. 1921)
* April 24 – Sibby Sisti, American baseball player (b. 1920)
* April 25 – Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian writer and activist (b. 1916)
* April 29 – Alberta Nelson, American actress (b. 1937)
* May 6 – Lillian Asplund, last American survivor of the RMS ''Titanic'' (born 1906 in the United States, 1906)
* May 10 – A. M. Rosenthal, Canadian-American journalist (b. 1922)
* May 11 – Floyd Patterson, boxer (b. 1935)
* May 12 – Gillespie V. Montgomery, general and politician (b. 1920)
* May 13
** Jaroslav Pelikan, historian (b. 1923)
** Johnnie Wilder Jr., R&B singer (b. 1949)
* May 14 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* May 21 – Billy Walker (musician), Billy Walker, country musician (b. 1929)
* May 23 – Lloyd Bentsen, U.S. Senator from Texas from 1971 to 1993 (b. 1921)
* May 27 – Paul Gleason, actor (b. 1939)
* May 31 – Raymond Davis Jr., chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914 in the United States, 1914)
* June 1 – William Winn, American psychologist (b. 1945)
* June 2 – Vince Welnick, American keyboardist (b. 1951)
* June 6
** Billy Preston, artist and musician (b. 1946 in the United States, 1946)
** Hilton Ruiz, jazz pianist (b. 1952)
* June 8 – Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
* June 11 – Michael Bartosh, engineer and businessman (b. 1977)
* June 13
** Freddie Gorman, songwriter (b. 1939)
** Luis Jiménez (sculptor), Luis Jiménez, sculptor (b. 1940)
* June 23 – Aaron Spelling, television producer (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
* June 25 – Arif Mardin, Turkish-American music producer (b. 1932 in music, 1932)
* June 27 – Eileen Barton, singer (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924) .
* July 5 – Kenneth Lay, businessman (b. 1942)
* July 7 – John Money, New Zealand psychologist, sexologist and author (b. 1921)
* July 8 – June Allyson, actress (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
* July 13 – Red Buttons, actor and comedian (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
* July 16 – Destiny Norton, murder victim (b. 2000)
* July 17 – Mickey Spillane, writer (b. 1918)
* July 19 – Jack Warden, actor (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
* July 21
** Mako (actor), Mako, Japanese-American actor and singer (b. 1933 in Japan, 1933)
** J. Madison Wright Morris, actress (b. 1984 in the United States, 1984)
* July 30 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
* August 1 – Rufus Harley, jazz musician (b. 1936)
* August 3 – Arthur Lee (musician), Arthur Lee, American musician (b. 1945 in the United States, 1945)
* August 6 – Marcus Fiesel, murder victim (b. 2003)
* August 9 – James Van Allen, physicist (b. 1914)
* August 11 – Mike Douglas, talk show host and actor (b. 1920)
* August 13 – Tony Jay, English-American actor and voice artist (b. 1933)
* August 16 – Herschel Green, fighter pilot (b. 1920)
* August 20 – Joe Rosenthal, photographer (b. 1911 in the United States, 1911)
* August 21 – John Hulett, African American civil rights activist (b. 1927)
* August 23 – Ed and Lorraine Warren, Ed Warren, paranormal investigator and author (b. 1926)
* August 28 – Melvin Schwartz, Nobel-winning physicist (b. 1932 in the United States, 1932)
* August 30 – Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (b. 1916 in Canada, 1916)
* September 1 – Nellie Connally, American socialite (b. 1919)
* September 2 – Bob Mathias, American athlete (b. 1930)
* September 7 – Robert Earl Jones, American actor and boxer (b. 1910)
* September 9 – Herbert Rudley, American actor (b. 1910)
* September 10
** Jane Hope Hastings (Katherine Kelenen), stage actress (b. 1902)
** Daniel Wayne Smith, American actor (b. 1986)
* September 11 – Pat Corley, actor (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
* September 13 – Ann Richards, 45th Governor of Texas from 1991 till 1995. (b. 1933)
* September 17 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)
* September 22 – Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
* September 23 – Etta Baker, American piedmont blues guitarist (b. 1913)
* September 26
** Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)
** Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American propagandist for Japan in World War II (b. 1916)
* September 30 – Josh Graves, American bluegrass musician (b. 1927)
* October 2
** Frances Bergen, American actress (b. 1922)
** Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)
* October 5 – George King (basketball, born 1928), George King, American basketball player and coach (b. 1928)
* October 6 – Buck O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
* October 7 – Anna Politkovskaya, American-born Russian journalist (b. 1958)
* October 9 – Glenn Myernick, American soccer player and coach (b. 1954)
* October 11 – Cory Lidle, American baseball player (b. 1972)
* October 13 – Hilda Terry, American cartoonist (b. 1914)
* October 14
** Freddy Fender, American singer (b. 1937)
** Gerry Studds, American politician (b. 1937)
* October 17 – Megan Meier, notable victim (b. 1992)
* October 18 – Alvin Weinberg, American nuclear physicist (b. 1915)
* October 20 – Jane Wyatt, actress (b. 1910 in the United States, 1910)
* October 21 – Sandy West, rock musician, former member of The Runaways (b. 1959 in the United States, 1959)
* October 24 – Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
* October 27 – Brad Will, American activist (b. 1970)
* October 28 – Red Auerbach, basketball coach and official (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
* October 30 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
* November 1
** Adrienne Shelly, actress & director (b. 1966)
** William Styron, writer (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* November 2
** Red Hayworth, American baseball player (b. 1916)
** Carroll Knicely, American publisher (b. 1929)
** Leonard Schrader, American screenwriter (b. 1943)
* November 3
** Belden Bly, American teacher (b. 1914)
** Sputnik Monroe, American professional wrestler (b. 1928)
* November 4
** Nelson S. Bond, American writer (b. 1908)
** William Lee Brent, American black panther party member (b. 1931)
* November 5 – Samuel Bowers, American Ku Klux Klansman and convicted killer (b. 1924)
* November 8 – Basil Poledouris, American composer (b. 1945)
* November 9 – Ed Bradley, African-American journalist (b. 1941)
* November 10 – Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
* November 14
** Sumner Shapiro, American admiral (b.1926)
** Pete Suder, American baseball player (b. 1916)
* November 16 – Milton Friedman, American Nobel economist (b. 1912)
* November 17 – Ruth Brown, American singer (b. 1928)
* November 20
** Robert Altman, film director (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
** Andre Waters, American football player and coach (b. 1962 in the United States, 1962)
* November 23
** Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
** Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922)
* November 24 – Walter Booker, American jazz bassist (b. 1933)
* November 25 – Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (b. 1919)
* November 26 – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (b. 1943)
* November 30 – Shirley Walker, composer and conductor for film and television (b. 1945)
* December 2 – Kari Edwards, poet (b. 1954)
* December 3 – Logan Whitehurst, musician (b. 1977)
* December 7 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, political theorist and U.N. ambassador (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
* December 8 – Martha Tilton, singer (b. 1915 in the United States, 1915)
* December 9 – Georgia Gibbs, singer (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
* December 11 – Elizabeth Bolden, supercentenarian (b. 1890 in the United States, 1890)
* December 12
** Paul Arizin, basketball player (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
** Peter Boyle, actor (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
** Ellis Rubin, attorney and author (b. 1925)
** Raymond P. Shafer, politician (b. 1917)
* December 13
** Lamar Hunt, sports executive (b. 1932)
** Homesick James, blues musician (b. 1910)
** Rebecca Riley, murder victim (b. 2002)
* December 14 – Mike Evans (actor), Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949 in the United States, 1949)
* December 16 – Marjorie F. Lambert, American archaeologist, anthropologist (b. 1908)
* December 18 – Joseph Barbera, cartoonist (b. 1911 in the United States, 1911)
* December 25 – James Brown, American musician (b. 1933)
* December 26 – Gerald Ford, American politician, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913)
* December 29 – Red Wolf (bull), Red Wolf, American bucking bull (b. 1988)
* December 30 – Sadam Hussein, President of Iraq from July 16, 1979, until April 9, 2003
* December 31 – Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist (b. 1922)
Incumbents
Federal government
*President
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*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
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Automobiles
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: George W. Bush
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( R-Texas
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)
* Vice President
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: Dick Cheney (R-Wyoming
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)
* Chief Justice: John Roberts
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( New York)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois
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)
* Senate Majority Leader
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: Bill Frist
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(R-Tennessee
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)
* Congress
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: 109th
Events
January
* January 2 ** The annual Rose Parade in California is drenched in heavy rain for the first time in 51 years. ** PepsiCo announces its purchase of Star Foods for an undisclosed price saying that the purchase would strengthen its place asPoland
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's number one seller of potato chip
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s.
* January 3 – Twelve dead coal miners and one survivor are discovered in the Sago Mine disaster
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near Buckhannon, West Virginia
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.
* January 4 – The Texas Longhorns
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led by Vince Young
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defeat the USC Trojans
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in the thrilling 2006 Rose Bowl
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, regarded as one of the greatest college football games ever played.
* January 5
** The Bush administration proposes spending $114 million on educational programs to expand the teaching of Arabic
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, Chinese, Persian
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** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
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and other languages typically not taught in public schools.
** IBM says that it would freeze pension benefits for its American employees starting in 2008 and offer them only a 401k
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retirement plan in future.
* January 6
** AOL agrees to pay customers as much as $25 million to settle claims that it wrongly billed them for some online services and products.
** NYSE
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says that it has picked Bear Wagner as the firm that will handle trading of its shares when it goes public.
* January 7 – Embroiled in multiple scandals, former U.S. House Majority Leader
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Tom DeLay
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announces he will not seek to reassume his former post.
* January 9
**Vice President Dick Cheney complains of shortness of breath
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and is treated at the hospital. The White House
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says the trip was necessary because of fluid retention as a side effect
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of a drug Mr. Cheney had taken to treat chronic foot ailments.
** The Dow Jones Industrial Average
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closes above 11,000 (11,011.90) for the first time since June 7, 2001.
* January 10 – Governor
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Arnold Schwarzenegger proposes a $125.6 billion budget increasing spending without raising taxes.
* January 11 – The Augustine Volcano
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in Alaska
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erupts twice, marking its first major eruption since 1986.
* January 13
** The US Government
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reports that wholesale
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inflation in 2005 increased by highest amount since 1990.
** Rick Wagoner
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, CEO of the loss-making General Motors says that results will improve in 2006 and 2007.
* January 15 – NASA
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's Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet
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.
* January 17 – California executes Clarence Ray Allen (death by lethal injection), who was sentenced to death in 1982 for arranging the murders of three people.
* January 18 – American International Group
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(AIG), the world's largest insurer, says that its chief operating officer Donald P. Kanak has resigned and stepped down from the board "for personal reasons".
* January 19 – NASA
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launches the '' New Horizons'' spacecraft in a 9-year, 3 billion mile space mission, to flyby and observe the dwarf planetary system of Pluto
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/ Charon and possibly other Kuiper belt objects
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.
* January 20 – A Maryland
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judge strikes down a state law banning same-sex marriage
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saying the measure violated a state constitutional amendment prohibiting sex discrimination.
* January 26 – General Motors reports an $8.6 billion loss for 2005, its biggest loss since 1992.
* January 27 – An inhaled form of insulin wins federal approval offering an alternative to injection
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s for millions of people with diabetes
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.
* January 30
**The White House
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announces that President Bush has chosen Professor Edward Lazear
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, a Stanford University business professor to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of his Council of Economic Advisors
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who will succeed Alan Greenspan
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as Chairman of the Federal Reserve
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.
** Jennifer San Marco kills eight people before committing suicide at a postal facility in Goleta, California
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. San Marco had worked at the facility previously, but had been let go due to her erratic behavior.
* January 31
** State of the Union Address
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.
** Samuel Alito is sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
** Two federal appeals courts uphold rulings that the Partial Birth Abortion Act passed by the United States Congress
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in 2003 is unconstitutional
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because it does not include an exception when the health of a pregnant woman is at risk.
February
* February 1 –UAL Corporation
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, United Airlines
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' parent company, emerges from bankruptcy after being in that position since December 9, 2002, the longest such filing in history.
* February 2 – After over 30 years, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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says it would relinquish ownership of a 2,500-year-old Greek vase, the Euphronios Krater, to Italy.
* February 3 – Suspicious fires destroy three small churches and damage two others in Bibb County, Alabama.
* February 5 – Super Bowl XL
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: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Seattle Seahawks by a score of 21–10. It is a homecoming for Detroit native Jerome Bettis
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, who was playing the final game of his 12-year career.
* February 6 – Feeding Frenzy 2
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is released by PopCap Games on PC.
* February 9 – AIG
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apologizes for deceptive business practices and reaches a $1.64 billion settlement with federal and state securities and insurance regulators.
* February 10-26 – The United States
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compete at the Winter Olympics
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in Turin
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, Italy and win 9 gold, 9 silver and 7 bronze medals.
* February 11 – Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shoots and wounds a lawyer while quail hunting in southern Texas
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.
* February 14 – The Coca-Cola Company
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says that Warren Buffett
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, the soft drink maker's largest shareholder, would leave the board in April after 19 years to spend more time managing Berkshire Hathaway
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.
* February 15 – A group of institutional investors already involved in a lawsuit with the company sue Tyco International
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to stop its proposed breakup plan.
* February 16
** The state of Minnesota
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sues AIG
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for underreporting premiums to reduce its tax bill refusing a settlement of $1.2 million.
** The chairman of the Federal Reserve
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, Ben Bernanke, testifies to the US Senate that Chinese ownership of US assets is not large enough to put the country at risk economically.
** The Department of Commerce reports that housing starts jumped 14.5% to a 33-year high in January.
* February 24 – Yeh for Games, an online game servicing company is founded in Nevada
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.
March
* March 2 – The colorized $10 bill is released, with the same color-shifting ink and security features of the $20 and $50 bills that preceded it.
* March 4 – The final contact attempt with Pioneer 10
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receives no response.
* March 5 – The 78th Academy Awards
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, hosted by Jon Stewart, are held at Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, with Paul Haggis
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' ''Crash
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'' controversially winning Best Picture
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. The film is part of a four-way tie in winning the most awards, with it, Ang Lee
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's ''Brokeback Mountain
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'', Peter Jackson's ''King Kong
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'' and Rob Marshall
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's ''Memoirs of a Geisha
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'' all winning three. ''Brokeback Mountain'' leads with eight nominations, with Lee also winning Best Director. The telecast garners nearly 39 million viewers.
* March 6-20 – The first World Baseball Classic
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is held in San Diego, California.
* March 9 – NASA
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's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers
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of a liquid substance shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus
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, signaling a possible presence of water.
* March 10 – NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
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enters Mars orbit.
* March 14 – Crystal Mangum makes false rape accusations against three members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team, an event which marked the beginning of the Duke lacrosse case
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* March 16 – The Blu-ray disc format is released in the United States.
* March 17 – The United States strikes its 2 remainings from the Naval Vessel Register
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, ending the age of the battleship.
* March 22 – The Federal Reserve
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stops the publishing of M3 money supply data.
* March 25 – Seven die in the Capitol Hill massacre in Seattle
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, Washington. Perpetrator Kyle Huff's rampage is fueled by his hatred of "rave scene" gatherings.
April
* April 4 – First material action in the Minor League Baseball umpire strike. * April 29 – Massive anti-war demonstrations and a march downBroadway
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* Broadway Theatre (disambiguation)
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** Broadway (Manhattan), the street
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in New York City mark the third year of war in Iraq
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* Wars during Mandatory Iraq
** Ikhwan raid on South Iraq 1921
* Smaller conflicts, revolutions, coups and periphery confli ...
.
May
* May 1 – The Great American Boycott takes place across the United States as marchers protest for immigration rights. * May 5 – Fiat chairmanSergio Marchionne
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announces that the Alfa Romeo
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automobile brand will return to the United States in 2008, after a 13-year hiatus.
June
* June 7 – Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and seven of his aides are killed in a U.S. air raid just north of the town ofBaquba
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, Iraq.
*June 9 – Pixar Animation Studios
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' seventh feature film, ''Cars
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'', is released in theaters.
*June 12 – Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback
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Ben Roethlisberger
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crashes his motorcycle near Pittsburgh
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's 10th Street bridge. He is rushed to Mercy Hospital for emergency surgery.
*June 19 – The Carolina Hurricanes defeat the Edmonton Oilers 3–1 in game 7 of the 2006 Stanley Cup Finals to give the Hurricanes their first Stanley Cup in franchise history. It is also the first Stanley Cup Finals since the 2004–05 lockout that cancelled all games that year.
* June 23 – In Miami, the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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arrests seven men, accusing them of planning to bomb the Sears Tower
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and other attacks in Miami.
* June 25 – Warren Buffett
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donates over $30 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
* June 26 – Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in Hawaii
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is established as the largest protected area in the world.
July
* July 4 – STS–121: Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is launched to theInternational Space Station
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. It returns safely on July 17. It is the second "return to flight" mission after the Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disaster.
* July 5 – North Korea test fires missiles, timed with the liftoff of Space Shuttle ''Discovery'', preceding the fireworks celebrations that night in America. The long range Taepodong–2 reportedly fails shortly after takeoff.
* July 7 – '' Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'' is released in theaters as the second film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, marking the debut of the CGI Walt Disney Pictures logo arranged by Mark Mancina
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.
* July 10 – Henry Paulson is sworn in as the new Secretary of Treasury
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, succeeding John W. Snow.
* July 22 – Needles, California experiences a record high low temperature of 100 °F (38 °C) at 6:00 am with a high temperature exceeding 120 °F (49 °C), making it one of the few locations on Earth that have recorded a triple-digit overnight low temperature.
* July – '' Rabbit Bites'', an Internet video series is created by Nicholas Quixote.
August
* August 10 –London Metropolitan Police
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make 21 arrests in connection to an apparent terrorist plot that involved aircraft traveling from the United Kingdom to the United States. Liquids and gels are banned from checked and carry-on baggage. As of September 26, the Transportation Security Administration
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adjusts its ban on liquids, aerosols and gels. Travelers are permitted to carry liquids through security checkpoints in containers of 3.4 ounces (100 mL) or less that fit comfortably in one quart-size clear plastic zip-top bag. This procedure came to be known as "3–1–1 for carry-ons" (3.4 ounce containers in a 1 quart bag, 1 bag per passenger). Items purchased in the airside zone after clearing security could be brought on board without restriction. Other exemptions to this restriction include medications and breast milk.
* August 27 – Comair Flight 5191
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, carrying 50 people, crashes shortly after takeoff from Blue Grass Airport
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in Lexington, Kentucky. Forty-nine people are killed, leaving a sole survivor.
* August 28 – A Greyhound Lines bus from New York City to Montreal
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carrying 52 people crashes at mile 115 on Interstate 87 near Elizabethtown, killing five people, including the driver, and seriously injuring others.
* August 29 – The United States commemorates the first anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina.
September
* September 3 – Gordon B. Hinckley dedicates the Sacramento California Temple, the LDS Church's seventh temple in California. *September 4 ** While filming ''Ocean's Deadliest
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Documentary
The documentary is largely filmed ...
'', television host Steve Irwin
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Irwin grew up around crocodiles and ot ...
is stung by a sting ray and killed off the coast of Australia.
** ''Curious George'' debuts on PBS Kids.
* September 8 – The world's tallest living tree, a tall coast redwood
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(sequoia) now named " Hyperion", is discovered in Redwood National Park.
* September 11 – The United States commemorates the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks
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in New York City.
* September 15 – Spinach contaminated with E. coli kills two and poisons over 100 others in 20 states.
*September 18 – The CW
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network debuts as the sixth broadcast network, merging with UPN (owned by CBS
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which split in the original Viacom, three days after UPN ceased operations) and The WB (owned by Warner Bros.
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, a day after The WB ceased operations).
*September 24 – The New Orleans Saints
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play their first game at the Superdome since Hurricane Katrina with a 23–3 victory over NFC South rival Atlanta Falcons.
October
* October – The unemployment rate drops to 4.4%, the lowest since May 2001. * October 2 – Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-year-old milk-truck driver, kills 5 girls at anAmish
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schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania before shooting himself.
* October 3 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average
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The DJIA is one of the oldest and most commonly followed equity inde ...
gains 56.99 points, or 0.49 percent, with a close of 11,727.34, its first all-time high in more than 6 years after it last hit in a record high of 11,722.98 on January 20, 2000.
* October 6 – A hazardous waste plant near Apex, North Carolina
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explodes, releasing chlorine gas, and resulting in the evacuation of thousands and the hospitalization of over 200 residents.
* October 10 – Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion.
* October 11 – A plane crashes into a high-rise building New York City, killing two.
* October 12 – Lake Storm "Aphid": A freak snowstorm blows into Buffalo, New York
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, leaving over 400,000 without power and killing 13.
* October 16 – The last American MASH is decommissioned.
* October 19 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average
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The DJIA is one of the oldest and most commonly followed equity inde ...
closes 12,000 for the first time, 12,011.73.
* October 21 – Jordan Spiz'ike: shoes are released by Michael Jordan and Spike Lee.
* October 24 – NASA
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's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its first flyby of Venus
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(it will be captured into Mercury's orbit on March 18, 2011).
* October 27 – The St. Louis Cardinals
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defeat the Detroit Tigers to win their 10th world series.
November
* November 7 – Mid-term elections result in the Democrats gaining control of both houses ofCongress
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.
* November 19 – Nintendo's Wii released in America.
December
* December 7 – Smoking is banned in allOhio
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bars, restaurants, workplaces and other public places.
* December 10 – Space Shuttle Mission STS–116: Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center
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on the first night launch since the 2003 loss of ''Columbia''.
* December 13 – U.S. Senator Tim Johnson ( D–South Dakota) suffers a brain hemorrhage during a conference call with reporters.
* December 14 – The U.S. spy satellite
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The ...
USA–193, also known as NRO Launch 21 (NROL–21 or simply L–21), is launched but malfunctions.
* December 15 – Lockheed Martin's F–35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter successfully flies for the first time.
* December 18 – Robert Gates
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is sworn in as the new Secretary of Defense, succeeding Donald Rumsfeld.
* December 20 – The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act
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The bill was introduced in the United Stat ...
is signed into law.
* December 22 – The Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' lands at Kennedy Space Center
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, concluding a 2–week mission to the International Space Station
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.
* December 26 – Former President Gerald Ford dies at the age of 93 in Rancho Mirage, California.
* December 30 – Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
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is executed
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by hanging
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for crimes against humanity.
Undated
*United States housing bubble
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: A total of 1,259,118 foreclosures are filed during 2006, up 42 percent from 2005.
* Subprime mortgage crisis: This summer, the housing bubble bursts, starting a chain of events that would eventually develop into a full-blown market meltdown.
* Mangroomer shaving product is introduced.
* OneSimCard, an international cell phone service provider is founded.
* For Fair Trade Towns USA, Media, Pennsylvania is the first fair trade town in the United States.
* Fight Forever Foundation: is founded in Illinois.
* The Culinistas, a home-chef and boutique catering service is founded.
Ongoing
*War in Afghanistan
War in Afghanistan, Afghan war, or Afghan civil war may refer to:
*Conquest of Afghanistan by Alexander the Great (330 BC – 327 BC)
* Muslim conquests of Afghanistan (637–709)
*Conquest of Afghanistan by the Mongol Empire (13th century), see al ...
(2001–2014)
* Iraq War
{{Infobox military conflict
, conflict = Iraq War {{Nobold, {{lang, ar, حرب العراق (Arabic) {{Nobold, {{lang, ku, شەڕی عێراق ( Kurdish)
, partof = the Iraq conflict and the War on terror
, image ...
(2003–2011)
Births
* January 17
Events Pre-1600
*38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
* 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on ...
– Nick Holliday, soccer player
* January 26
Events Pre-1600
* 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.
*1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
* 1564 – The Council of Tren ...
– Mo Gaba, notable baseball superfan and cancer victim (d. 2020)
* February 14 – Josh Pierson, racing driver
* February 17 – Matthew Corcoran, soccer player
* March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor Diocletian ...
– Julian Grey, actor
* March 20
Events Pre-1600
* 673 – Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka.
* 1206 – Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 1600 – The Link ...
– Barron Trump, son of former president Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of P ...
* March 29
Events Pre-1600
* 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
* 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of ...
– Haven Coleman, activist
* April 8 – Moses Bruce Anthony Martin, son of Chris Martin
Christopher Anthony John Martin (born 2 March 1977) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist, pianist, rhythm guitarist and co-founder of the rock band Coldplay. Born in Exeter, Devon, he went to Uni ...
and Gwyneth Paltrow
* April 18
Events Pre-1600
* 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Coria (Corbridge), Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald of Northumbria, Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 d ...
– Suri Cruise, daughter of Tom Cruise
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962), known professionally as Tom Cruise, is an American actor and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actors, he has received various accolades, including an Honorary Palme d'Or and three Go ...
and Katie Holmes
* April 26
Events Pre-1600
* 1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.
*1348 – Czech king Karel IV founds the Charles University in Prague, which was later named after him and was the first university in Central Europe.
* 1 ...
– Andy Walken
Andy Walken (born April 26, 2006) is an American actor, known for his role as William Cleary in '' The Kids Are Alright'' and Ralphie Parker in ''A Christmas Story Live!''. In 2022, he won the first-ever Children's and Family Emmy Award for Out ...
, actor
* May 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
* 1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Sp ...
– Sadie Sandler, actress and daughter of Adam Sandler
* June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
* 1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed k ...
– Bombette Martin, skateboarder
* June 25
Events Pre-1600
* 524 – The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce.
* 841 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of ...
– Mckenna Grace, actress
* June 28 – Laurel Griggs, actress (d. 2019)
* June 29
Events Pre-1600
* 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
*1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
* 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, ...
– Sam Lavagnino
Sam Lavagnino (born June 29, 2006) is an American voice actor and YouTuber whose roles include Catbug in ''Bravest Warriors'' and Young Grizz in ''We Bare Bears''. He also voices the dog "Rolly" in the Disney Junior show ''Puppy Dog Pals'' and " ...
, voice actor
* July 16 – Corey Jackson
Andrick Cora Jackson (born November 6, 1978) is an American former multi-sport athlete. He played college basketball for Ranger College before transferring to the University of Nevada where he played both basketball and American football. He l ...
, rapper
* July 28
Events Pre-1600
*1364 – Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.
*1540 – Henry VIII of England marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day his former Chancellor, Thom ...
– Katelyn Jong
Katelyn Jong (born July 28, 2006) is an American artistic gymnast and a member of the United States women's national gymnastics team. She is the 2021 U.S. Junior National Champion.
Early life
Jong was born to Simon and Yoomin Jong in 2006 in ...
, gymnast
* August 23 – Victoria Martens, notable victim of child abuse (d. 2016)
* September 7
** Dannielynn Birkhead, notable paternity case subject and daughter of Anna Nicole Smith
** Ian Chen (actor), Ian Chen, actor
* September 13 – Isabella Rice, actress
* September 17 – Ella Jay Basco, actress
* October 1 – Priah Ferguson, actress
* October 16 – Naomi Wadler, activist
* October 18 – Charlotte Figi, notable medical cannabis, medical cannabidiol patient and rare disease victim (d. 2020)
* October 30 – Saniyya Sidney, actress
* November 2 – Hilde Lysiak, journalist
* November 9 – Honestie Hodges, notable victim of police brutality (d. 2020)
* November 16 – Mason Ramsey, singer
* December 4 – Alex Marquez, singer
* December 5 – Ava Kolker, actress
* December 19 – Christopher Yoo (chess player), Christopher Yoo, chess player
Deaths
January
* January 1
** Harry Magdoff, economist, (b. 1913)
** Gideon Rodan, Romanian-born American physician (b. 1934)
** Hubert Schoemaker, Dutch-born American biochemist and executive (b. 1950)
* January 6
** Lou Rawls, African-American singer, songwriter and actor (b. 1933)
** Hugh Thompson, Jr., soldier and pilot (b. 1943)
* January 8 – David Rosenbaum (journalist), David Rosenbaum, journalist (b. 1942)
* January 9
** Elliot Forbes, conductor and musicologist (b. 1917)
** W. Cleon Skousen, American conservative author and professor (b. 1913)
* January 10 – Ira Black, physician and neuroscientist (b. 1941)
* January 11
** Nixzmary Brown, murder victim (b. 1998)
** Eric Namesnik, swimmer (b. 1970)
* January 12
** Eldon Dedini, cartoonist (b. 1921)
** Anne Meacham, actress (b. 1925)
* January 14 – Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
* January 15 – Edward N. Hall, Edward Hall, aeronautical engineer and brother of Theodore Hall (b. 1914)
* January 16 – Stanley Biber, surgeon (b. 1923)
* January 18 – Thomas Murphy (chairman), Thomas Murphy, executive (b. 1915)
* January 19
** Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
** Wilson Pickett, singer and songwriter (b. 1941)
* January 23
** David Weber (clarinetist), David Weber, Lithuanian-born American musician (b. 1913)
** Samuel Koster, general and murderer (b. 1919)
* January 24 – Chris Penn, actor and brother of Sean Penn (b. 1965)
* January 25 – Herbert Schilder, dental surgeon (b. 1929)
* January 28 – Helmut W. Schulz, German physicist and chemical engineer, died in White Plains, New York, White Plains, New York (b. 1912)
* January 30
** Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist (b. 1927)
** Wendy Wasserstein, writer (b. 1950)
* January 31
** George Koval, Soviet intelligence agent (b. 1913 in the United States, 1913)
** Paul Regina, actor (b. 1956 in the United States, 1956)
February
* February 1 – Dick Brooks, auto racer (b. 1942)
* February 3
** Lou Jones (athlete), Lou Jones, track and field athlete (b. 1932)
** Al Lewis (actor), Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)
* February 4
** Betty Friedan, American feminist, activist, and writer (b. 1921)
** William Augustus Jones Jr., William Jones, minister and civil rights activist (b. 1934)
* February 8 – Barry Martin, dancer, choreographer, and murder victim (b. 1962)
* February 10
** J Dilla, American music producer (b. 1974)
** Norman Shumway, surgeon (b. 1923)
** John Belluso, writer (b. 1969)
* February 12 – Peter Benchley, writer (b. 1940)
* February 13 – Andreas Katsulas, American actor (b. 1946)
* February 20 – Curt Gowdy, sports announcer (b. 1919)
* February 24
** Don Knotts, actor and comedian (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
** Dennis Weaver, actor (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
* February 25 – Darren McGavin, actor (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* February 28 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
March
* March 1 – Harry Browne, politician and author (b. 1933)
* March 2 – Phyllis Huffman, American casting director (b. 1944)
* March 5 – Richard Kuklinski, American hitman (b. 1935)
* March 6 – Dana Reeve, American actress (b. 1961)
* March 7 – Gordon Parks, American photographer (b. 1912)
* March 10
**Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)
**Ronald H. Nash, American philosopher (b. 1936)
* March 13 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* March 17 – Bob Papenbrook, voice actor (b. 1955 in the United States, 1955)
* March 21 – Bob Delegall, actor, director and producer (b. 1945)
* March 23 – Desmond Doss, combat medic (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
* March 25
** Richard Fleischer, film director (b. 1916)
** Buck Owens, singer, bandleader, and TV host (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* March 26 – Paul Dana, racing driver (b. 1975 in the United States, 1975)
* March 28
** Jerry Brudos, murderer (b. 1939)
** Charles Schepens, Belgium-born American ophthalmologist, surgeon, and insurgent (b. 1912)
** Caspar Weinberger, 15th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
* March 29 – Don Alias, musician (b. 1939)
* March 30 – Philip Hyde (photographer), Philip Hyde, American wildlife photographer (b. 1921)
* March 31 – Jackie McLean, American jazz musician (b. 1931)
April
* April 3
** Marshall Goldberg, American football player (b. 1917)
** Al Harker, American soccer player (b. 1910)
* April 4 – Fred J. Christensen, American fighter pilot (b. 1921)
* April 5 – Gene Pitney, singer (b. 1941)
* April 6 – Francis L. Kellogg, diplomat and prominent socialite (b. 1917)
* April 9
** Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player (b. 1916)
** Jimmy Outlaw, American baseball player (b. 1913)
* April 11 – Proof (rapper), Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
* April 15 – Louise Smith, American race car driver (b. 1916)
* April 16
** Morton Freedgood, American author (b. 1913)
** Daniel Schaefer, American politician (b. 1936)
* April 17 – Al Cederberg, American politician (b. 1918)
* April 19 – Bob Dove, American football player (b. 1921)
* April 24 – Sibby Sisti, American baseball player (b. 1920)
* April 25 – Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian writer and activist (b. 1916)
* April 29 – Alberta Nelson, American actress (b. 1937)
May
* May 6 – Lillian Asplund, last American survivor of the RMS ''Titanic'' (born 1906 in the United States, 1906)
* May 10 – A. M. Rosenthal, Canadian-American journalist (b. 1922)
* May 11 – Floyd Patterson, boxer (b. 1935)
* May 12 – Gillespie V. Montgomery, general and politician (b. 1920)
* May 13
** Jaroslav Pelikan, historian (b. 1923)
** Johnnie Wilder Jr., R&B singer (b. 1949)
* May 14 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* May 21 – Billy Walker (musician), Billy Walker, country musician (b. 1929)
* May 23 – Lloyd Bentsen, U.S. Senator from Texas from 1971 to 1993 (b. 1921)
* May 27 – Paul Gleason, actor (b. 1939)
* May 31 – Raymond Davis Jr., chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914 in the United States, 1914)
June
* June 1 – William Winn, American psychologist (b. 1945)
* June 2 – Vince Welnick, American keyboardist (b. 1951)
* June 6
** Billy Preston, artist and musician (b. 1946 in the United States, 1946)
** Hilton Ruiz, jazz pianist (b. 1952)
* June 8 – Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
* June 11 – Michael Bartosh, engineer and businessman (b. 1977)
* June 13
** Freddie Gorman, songwriter (b. 1939)
** Luis Jiménez (sculptor), Luis Jiménez, sculptor (b. 1940)
* June 23 – Aaron Spelling, television producer (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
* June 25 – Arif Mardin, Turkish-American music producer (b. 1932 in music, 1932)
* June 27 – Eileen Barton, singer (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924) .
July
* July 5 – Kenneth Lay, businessman (b. 1942)
* July 7 – John Money, New Zealand psychologist, sexologist and author (b. 1921)
* July 8 – June Allyson, actress (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
* July 13 – Red Buttons, actor and comedian (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
* July 16 – Destiny Norton, murder victim (b. 2000)
* July 17 – Mickey Spillane, writer (b. 1918)
* July 19 – Jack Warden, actor (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
* July 21
** Mako (actor), Mako, Japanese-American actor and singer (b. 1933 in Japan, 1933)
** J. Madison Wright Morris, actress (b. 1984 in the United States, 1984)
* July 30 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
August
* August 1 – Rufus Harley, jazz musician (b. 1936)
* August 3 – Arthur Lee (musician), Arthur Lee, American musician (b. 1945 in the United States, 1945)
* August 6 – Marcus Fiesel, murder victim (b. 2003)
* August 9 – James Van Allen, physicist (b. 1914)
* August 11 – Mike Douglas, talk show host and actor (b. 1920)
* August 13 – Tony Jay, English-American actor and voice artist (b. 1933)
* August 16 – Herschel Green, fighter pilot (b. 1920)
* August 20 – Joe Rosenthal, photographer (b. 1911 in the United States, 1911)
* August 21 – John Hulett, African American civil rights activist (b. 1927)
* August 23 – Ed and Lorraine Warren, Ed Warren, paranormal investigator and author (b. 1926)
* August 28 – Melvin Schwartz, Nobel-winning physicist (b. 1932 in the United States, 1932)
* August 30 – Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (b. 1916 in Canada, 1916)
September
* September 1 – Nellie Connally, American socialite (b. 1919)
* September 2 – Bob Mathias, American athlete (b. 1930)
* September 7 – Robert Earl Jones, American actor and boxer (b. 1910)
* September 9 – Herbert Rudley, American actor (b. 1910)
* September 10
** Jane Hope Hastings (Katherine Kelenen), stage actress (b. 1902)
** Daniel Wayne Smith, American actor (b. 1986)
* September 11 – Pat Corley, actor (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
* September 13 – Ann Richards, 45th Governor of Texas from 1991 till 1995. (b. 1933)
* September 17 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)
* September 22 – Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
* September 23 – Etta Baker, American piedmont blues guitarist (b. 1913)
* September 26
** Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)
** Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American propagandist for Japan in World War II (b. 1916)
* September 30 – Josh Graves, American bluegrass musician (b. 1927)
October
* October 2
** Frances Bergen, American actress (b. 1922)
** Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)
* October 5 – George King (basketball, born 1928), George King, American basketball player and coach (b. 1928)
* October 6 – Buck O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
* October 7 – Anna Politkovskaya, American-born Russian journalist (b. 1958)
* October 9 – Glenn Myernick, American soccer player and coach (b. 1954)
* October 11 – Cory Lidle, American baseball player (b. 1972)
* October 13 – Hilda Terry, American cartoonist (b. 1914)
* October 14
** Freddy Fender, American singer (b. 1937)
** Gerry Studds, American politician (b. 1937)
* October 17 – Megan Meier, notable victim (b. 1992)
* October 18 – Alvin Weinberg, American nuclear physicist (b. 1915)
* October 20 – Jane Wyatt, actress (b. 1910 in the United States, 1910)
* October 21 – Sandy West, rock musician, former member of The Runaways (b. 1959 in the United States, 1959)
* October 24 – Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
* October 27 – Brad Will, American activist (b. 1970)
* October 28 – Red Auerbach, basketball coach and official (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
* October 30 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
November
* November 1
** Adrienne Shelly, actress & director (b. 1966)
** William Styron, writer (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* November 2
** Red Hayworth, American baseball player (b. 1916)
** Carroll Knicely, American publisher (b. 1929)
** Leonard Schrader, American screenwriter (b. 1943)
* November 3
** Belden Bly, American teacher (b. 1914)
** Sputnik Monroe, American professional wrestler (b. 1928)
* November 4
** Nelson S. Bond, American writer (b. 1908)
** William Lee Brent, American black panther party member (b. 1931)
* November 5 – Samuel Bowers, American Ku Klux Klansman and convicted killer (b. 1924)
* November 8 – Basil Poledouris, American composer (b. 1945)
* November 9 – Ed Bradley, African-American journalist (b. 1941)
* November 10 – Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
* November 14
** Sumner Shapiro, American admiral (b.1926)
** Pete Suder, American baseball player (b. 1916)
* November 16 – Milton Friedman, American Nobel economist (b. 1912)
* November 17 – Ruth Brown, American singer (b. 1928)
* November 20
** Robert Altman, film director (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
** Andre Waters, American football player and coach (b. 1962 in the United States, 1962)
* November 23
** Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
** Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922)
* November 24 – Walter Booker, American jazz bassist (b. 1933)
* November 25 – Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (b. 1919)
* November 26 – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (b. 1943)
* November 30 – Shirley Walker, composer and conductor for film and television (b. 1945)
December
* December 2 – Kari Edwards, poet (b. 1954)
* December 3 – Logan Whitehurst, musician (b. 1977)
* December 7 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, political theorist and U.N. ambassador (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
* December 8 – Martha Tilton, singer (b. 1915 in the United States, 1915)
* December 9 – Georgia Gibbs, singer (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
* December 11 – Elizabeth Bolden, supercentenarian (b. 1890 in the United States, 1890)
* December 12
** Paul Arizin, basketball player (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
** Peter Boyle, actor (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
** Ellis Rubin, attorney and author (b. 1925)
** Raymond P. Shafer, politician (b. 1917)
* December 13
** Lamar Hunt, sports executive (b. 1932)
** Homesick James, blues musician (b. 1910)
** Rebecca Riley, murder victim (b. 2002)
* December 14 – Mike Evans (actor), Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949 in the United States, 1949)
* December 16 – Marjorie F. Lambert, American archaeologist, anthropologist (b. 1908)
* December 18 – Joseph Barbera, cartoonist (b. 1911 in the United States, 1911)
* December 25 – James Brown, American musician (b. 1933)
* December 26 – Gerald Ford, American politician, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913)
* December 29 – Red Wolf (bull), Red Wolf, American bucking bull (b. 1988)
* December 30 – Sadam Hussein, President of Iraq from July 16, 1979, until April 9, 2003
* December 31 – Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist (b. 1922)
See also
* 2006 in American soccer * 2006 in American television * List of American films of 2006 * Timeline of United States history (1990–2009)References
External links
* {{Year in North America, 2006 2006 in the United States, 2000s in the United States 2006 by country, United States 2006 in North America, United States Years of the 21st century in the United States Articles containing video clips