Fidel Castro hands over power to his brother, Raúl. Fidel Castro was a central figure in 20th-century world politics, best known as the revolutionary leader…
Tag: 2006
4 October 2006
WikiLeaks is launched. WikiLeaks is a non-profit organization that publishes classified, censored, or otherwise restricted material from anonymous sources. It was founded in 2006 by…
17 February 2006
A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126. Mudslides, also known as debris flows or mudflows, are…
2 October 2006
Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States
19 September 2006
The Thai army stages a coup. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is decl
12 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…
11 August 2006
The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country’s worst oil spill.
11 July 2006
Mumbai train bombings: Two hundred nine people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.