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United States housing bubble: A total of 1,259,118 foreclosures are filed during 2006, up 42 percent from 2005. [63] Subprime mortgage crisis: This summer, the housing bubble bursts, starting a chain of events that would eventually develop into a full-blown market meltdown. Mangroomer shaving product is introduced. [64]
2006 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2006th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 6th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2000s decade.
August 14 – The 2006 Lebanon War cease fire goes into effect. August 28 – Mexico 's Federal Electoral Tribunal rules unanimously that results in contested polling stations only marginally affected the lead of Felipe Calderón of the ruling National Action Party over Andrés Manuel López Obrador in July's disputed presidential election .
February 2006 – Wheel of Fortune returns and starts in 2006. Larry Emdur & Laura Csortan will definitely host WOF in a partnership instead of one. On the very first episode in 2006, the car was won! The final edition of the version was screened on 28 July. 9 February – It is announced that Eddie McGuire will become Channel Nine's new CEO.
The BBC shows a video about a new alleged massacre by U.S. troops in Ishaqi, Iraq, on March 15, 2006. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., writing in Rolling Stone magazine, accuses George W. Bush and his Republican Party of widespread voting fraud during the 2004 Presidential Election. (Rolling Stone) Archived 2006-06-02 at the Wayback Machine (Editor and ...
The 2006 FIFA World Cup begins at the FIFA World Cup Stadium Munich. The suspected WWII 'bomb' under Broadmead in Bristol, United Kingdom turns out to be a piece of reinforced concrete. Celebrations for Thailand's King Rama IX's Diamond Jubilee begins.
Timothy Delehanty, 36, appears for a preliminary hearing in Kenton County District Court. Delehanty is charged with murder in connection with the 2006 stabbing death of 61-year-old Paul Clayton.
2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict: The UN Security Council adopts a resolution, 15-0, calling for a ceasefire in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. Ehud Olmert accepts the emerging Middle East peace deal after earlier threatening an expansion of the ground war in Lebanon. The agreement calls for the deployment of 30,000 Lebanese and U.N. troops along ...