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July 2006
Events
32nd G8 summit
Atlantic hurricane season
Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak
Black sites scandal
Chilean student protests
Cole Inquiry
East Timor military and political crisis
Horn of Africa food crisis
Immigration law debates in the US
Iran's nuclear program
Israel–Lebanon crisis
Mumbai train bombings
New Jersey State Government shutdown
North Indian cyclone season
Northeastern Ontario derecho
NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
Operación Puerto doping case
Pacific hurricane season
Pacific typhoon season
Southern Hemisphere cyclone season
Tour de France
Wimbledon Tennis Championships
World Cup 2006, Germany
Deaths
1
:
Ryutaro Hashimoto
1
:
Fred Trueman
2
:
Herty Lewites
2
:
Jan Murray
3
:
Jack Smith
3
:
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
5
:
Kenneth Lay
6
:
Kasey Rogers
7
:
Rudi Carrell
7
:
Syd Barrett
8
:
June Allyson
9
:
Alan Senitt
9
:
Shamil Basayev
11
:
Barnard Hughes
12
:
Hubert Lampo
12
:
Kurt Kreuger
13
:
Red Buttons
14
:
Carrie Nye
15
:
Robert H. Brooks
16
:
Bob Orton
16
:
Win Rockefeller
17
:
Mickey Spillane
19
:
Jack Warden
20
:
Lim Kim San
21
:
Mako Iwamatsu
21
:
Ta Mok
23
:
Frederick Mosteller
26
:
Jessie Gilbert
30
:
Pierre Vidal-Naquet
Armed conflicts
Acholiland insurgency
Arab–Israeli conflict
(
al-Aqsa Intifada
)
Operation Summer Rains
Chadian–Sudanese conflict
Darfur conflict
in
Sudan
Iraq War
Ituri conflict
in the
DR Congo
Ivorian Civil War
Nepal Civil War
Second Chechen War
South Thailand insurgency
Elections
5
:
Macedonia
, Parliament
28
-
30
:
Seychelles
30
:
DR Congo
, General (President and Legislature)
30
:
São Tomé and Príncipe
,
President
Trials
Chile:
Alberto Fujimori
(extradition)
Chile:
Augusto Pinochet
Ethiopia: 111 defendants, including leaders of the
CUD
and journalists, on charges related to the
2005 elections
.
Iraq:
Iraqi Special Tribunal
Saddam Hussein
, among others
Netherlands:
ICC
Thomas Lubanga
Netherlands:
ICTY
Sierra Leone:
SCfSL
Charles Taylor
UK:
Leo O'Connor & David Keogh
U.S.:
Brian Nichols
U.S.:
Kenneth Lay
and
Jeffrey Skilling
(sentencing)
U.S.:
Tom DeLay
Holidays and observances
1
:
HKSAR Establishment Day
(
Hong Kong
)
1
:
Canada Day
(
Canada
)
4
:
Independence Day
(
United States
)
5
:
Saints Cyril and Methodius Day
(
Czech Republic
,
Slovakia
)
5
:
Independence Day
(
Venezuela
)
5
:
Tynwald Day
(
Isle of Man
)
6
:
Jan Hus Day
(
Czech Republic
)
6
:
Statehood Day
(
Lithuania
)
7
:
Ivan Kupala
(
Russia
)
7
:
Tanabata
(
Japan
)
9
:
National Day of Commemoration
(
Ireland
)
11
-
13
:
Naadam
(
Mongolia
)
11
:
World Population Day
11
:
Flemish Day
(
Flemish Region
,
Belgium
)
12
:
The Twelfth
(
Northern Ireland
)
13
:
Seventeenth of Tammuz
(
Judaism
)
13
=
15
:
Bon Festival
begins
(
Japan
)
14
:
Bastille Day
(
France
)
15
:
Men's Day
(
Brazil
)
17
:
Marine Day
(
Japan
)
17
:
Constitution Day
(
Korea
)
19
:
President's Day
(
Botswana
)
20
:
Friends' Day
(
Argentina
)
21
:
National holiday
(
Belgium
)
23
:
Revolution Day
(
Egypt
)
23
:
Parents' Day
(
United States
)
24
:
Pioneer Day
(
Utah
)
24
:
Simón Bolívar's Birthday
(
Ecuador
,
Venezuela
)
29
:
Ólavsøka
(
Faroe Islands
)
31
:
Ka Hae Hawai‘i Day
(
Hawaii
)
31
:
Qi Xi
(
traditional Chinese festival
)