WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 2006
Find out what all happened June to December 2006

The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran, by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; nations such as Israel and the United States express concern. (11. December 2006)

Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed. (30. December 2006)

North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly failed in mid-air over the Sea of Japan. (5. July 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)

Mumbai train bombings: 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India. (11. July 2006)

Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after eight years of captivity. (23. August 2006)

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

Kimveer Gill kills one student and injures 19 more in the Dawson College shooting. (13. September 2006)

Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest. (26. June 2006)

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army. (11. November 2006)

At least 21 suspected terrorists were arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests were made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation. (9. August 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)

Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, is kidnapped by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid from the Israeli territory. (25. June 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)

Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo. (10. November 2006)

Al Jazeera English launches worldwide. (15. November 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)

Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre and what Israel considers to be an attempt to stop rockets' being fired, from Lebanon, at Israeli civilian targets. (30. July 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)