WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 2006
Find out what all happened January to September 2006

Members of the Chadian military fail in an attempted coup d'état. (14. March 2006)

The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years. (30. July 2006)

Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least 10 elderly women. (25. January 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)

At least 122 people are killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200 passengers veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia. (9. July 2006)

Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years. (17. September 2006)

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet. (24. August 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)

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law. (29. June 2006)

The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army. (5. May 2006)

India's Irfan Pathan became the first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match. (29. January 2006)

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

The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance. (27. July 2006)

At least one million union members, students, and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law. (28. March 2006)

Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president. (22. January 2006)

Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; hardest hit is in Tennessee with 29 people killed (2. April 2006)

A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners. (19. February 2006)

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

Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead. (12. May 2006)