WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO APRIL 2006
Find out what all happened January to April 2006

The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India. (7. March 2006)

ETA, the armed Basque separatist group, declares a permanent ceasefire. (22. March 2006)

The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the "British FBI", is created in the United Kingdom. (1. April 2006)

Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star. (25. January 2006)

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state. (16. January 2006)

The United Kingdom Terrorism Act 2006 becomes a law. (30. March 2006)

A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 71. (4. February 2006)

Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City. (27. April 2006)

Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Ontario, Canada. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos motorcycle gang. (8. April 2006)

The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army. (16. February 2006)

A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims. (12. January 2006)

In South Korea the United Liberal Democrats, the three top political parties was merged into Grand National Party. (20. February 2006)

Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested. (25. March 2006)

An explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia traps and kills 12 miners, while leaving one miner in critical condition. (2. January 2006)

Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. (25. March 2006)

The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto. (19. January 2006)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium. (11. April 2006)

The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Chorzów/Katowice, Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others. (28. January 2006)

Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. (27. January 2006)

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars. (10. March 2006)