WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 2006
Find out what all happened August to December 2006

The oil tanker M/T Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill. (11. August 2006)

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet. (24. August 2006)

Six black youths assault a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana. (4. December 2006)

Madrid–Barajas Airport is bombed. (30. December 2006)

An oil pipeline in Lagos, Nigeria explodes, killing at least 260. (26. December 2006)

North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device. (9. October 2006)

The Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths. (30. December 2006)

A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama. (22. October 2006)

A tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging about 150 properties. (7. December 2006)

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

A group of ferocious activists of Bangladesh Awami League attacked one of their rival political party meeting in Dhaka with oars and sculls and killed their 14 activists. (28. October 2006)

Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police. (31. August 2006)

First flight of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II. (15. December 2006)

United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections. (18. December 2006)

Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'a Muslims in 1982. (5. November 2006)

Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji. (5. December 2006)

Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing. (14. August 2006)

The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced. (18. December 2006)

NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars. (6. December 2006)

Al Jazeera English launches worldwide. (15. November 2006)