WHAT HAPPENED IN 2006.
Look what happened the 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)

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. (4. January 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)

The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship. (12. 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 New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto. (19. January 2006)

Witnesses report seeing a bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the Thames since records began in 1913. (20. January 2006)

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

Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least 10 elderly women. (25. January 2006)

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

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)

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

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

A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126. (17. February 2006)

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

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

At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent. (22. February 2006)

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup. (24. February 2006)