* Mwakikagile, Godfrey Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era, Third Edition, Pretoria, South Africa, 2006, on Angola in Chapter 11, " American Involvement in Angola and Southern Africa: Nyerere's Response ", pp. 324 – 346, ISBN 978-0-9802534-1-2.

The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot ( d. 2006 )

* 1930 – Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician ( d. 2006 )

* 1945 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization ( d. 2006 )

* 1974 – Belinda Emmett, Australian actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1923 – Al Lewis, American actor ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.

* 1913 – Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, Russian-German wife of Claus von Stauffenberg ( d. 2006 )

* 1925 – Darry Cowl, French actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1922 – Freddie Laker, English businessman, founded Laker Airways ( d. 2006 )

* 1924 – Samuel Bowers, American murder, co-founded White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists are arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom.

* 1971 – James Kim, American journalist and technology expert ( d. 2006 )

* 1986 – Rafaela Zanella, Brazilian model, Miss Brasil 2006

Telephones – main lines in use: 37, 500 ( 2006 )

Telephones – mobile cellular: 110, 200 ( 2006 ) ( APUA PCS, Cable & Wireless, Digicel )

* 1918 – Noor Hassanali, Trinidadian-Tobagonian politician, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago ( d. 2006 )

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ( Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006 ), pp. 243 – 261

The wicketkeeper-batsman position was held by Ian Healy for most of the 1990s and by Adam Gilchrist from 2001 to 2006 – 07.

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

* 1922 – Gábor Agárdy, Hungarian actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1932 – Lamar Hunt, American sports executive ( d. 2006 )

Mário Soares in 2006

On 24 September 2005, he announced that he would be a candidate in the Portuguese presidential election, 2006, despite his party's official support for former president Mário Soares as a candidate.

On the elections held 22 January 2006, he ended up collecting 20. 7 % of the valid votes ( the second largest amount after the elected President, Cavaco Silva, and ahead of his party's official candidate Mário Soares ).

The return of Mário Jardel to Portugal to play for Beira-Mar was one of the biggest news in Portuguese football in the summer of 2006, as the 33-year old and former European Golden Shoe winner signed a one-year contract.

* Paul Lunde, The coming of the Portuguese, 2006, Saudi Aramco World

In Oporto, Portuguese LGBT community has a march named Marcha do Orgulho LGBT, which is held since 2006.

The reorganization of the Portuguese Army in 2006 caused the extinction of the Airbone Troops Command.

* Human mobility in the triple border of Peru, Colombia and Brazil, Márcia Maria de Oliveira, São Paulo May / August 2006 ( abstract in English, text in Portuguese ).

* Orlando da Costa ( 1929 – 2006 ), Portuguese Minister

In May 2006, the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement where it referred to Dom Duarte as Duke of Braganza.

In response to this statement, on 5 July 2006 Nuno da Câmara Pereira, member of the Portuguese parliament, then leader of the People's Monarchist Party addressed the President of the Assembly of the Republic, asking for a clarification as to the official recognition of Dom Duarte as pretender to the throne and as Duke of Braganza.

In its official response of 11 July 2006 the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs restated the fact that the Portuguese constitution guarantees the republican regime.

In May 2006, an outbreak of the so-dubbed " Morangos com Açúcar Virus " ( Strawberries With Sugar virus ) was reported in Portuguese schools, named after the popular teen girl's show Morangos com Açúcar ( Strawberries With Sugar ).

Mauritius, which was unknown to Europeans until the Portuguese sailed there and has strong connections with Mozambique, also obtained associate observer status in 2006.

Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio,,, () is a Portuguese lawyer and politician who was the 18th President of Portugal from 1996 to 2006.

Ralph Appelbaum Associates is known for its work at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library ( 2004 ), the Museum of the Portuguese Language ( 2006 ), The National World War I Museum ( 2006 ), the London Transport Museum ( 2007 ), and the Newseum ( 2008 ).

In her recent book Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a Seventeenth-Century Forbidden Love ( 2006 ), the author Myriam Cyr has attempted to reassert the attribution of the letters to the real Mariana Alcoforado.

* Cyr Myriam-" Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a Seventeenth-Century Forbidden Love "; Hyperion Books ; January 2006 ; ISBN 0-7868-6911-9 ( description )

The PSD-supported candidate Aníbal Cavaco Silva won the Portuguese presidential elections in 2006 and again in 2011.

Moonspell reached the Portuguese top first with their album Sin / Pecado, and were, along with Metallica and Iron Maiden, the only metal band to reach the first place of the Portuguese charts after the release of their album, Memorial, in 2006.

On November 2, 2006, Moonspell won an MTV Europe Music Award in the category of Best Portuguese Act.

The stadium further cemented its reputation as an all-round sports and entertainment venue when it hosted the Portuguese leg of The Rolling Stones 2006 world tour, and the 2009 Race of Champions South Europe finals.

* A 2006 Brazilian and Portuguese Twix advertisement featured a character who has said ' Caramelo ' ( caramel ) all the time since he was born.

Its candidate Francisco Louçã received 288, 224 votes ( 5. 31 %) in the Portuguese 2006 presidential elections.

However, the 2006 book Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a 17th Century Forbidden Love by Myriam Cyr argues that Mariana Alcoforado did, in fact, exist — and that, as an educated nun of the period, she could have written the letters ; that the letters show characteristics suggesting a Portuguese original, and that Mariana was, in fact, their author.