* 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 )

To counter negative publicity, Mariska Majoor, founder of the Prostitution Information Center, organized two " open days " in February 2006 and March 2007, allowing visitors access to some window brothels and peep shows and informing them about the working conditions there.

* 1911 – Jan Koetsier, Dutch composer and conductor ( d. 2006 )

* 1921 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter ( d. 2006 )

* 1950 – Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist ( d. 2006 )

* 1923 – Gerard Reve, Dutch writer ( d. 2006 )

* 1938 – Dutch Mason, Canadian blues musician ( d. 2006 )

In 2006, the Dutch government formed a committee to investigate the TBS-system.

* 1928 – Cor van der Hart, Dutch footballer ( d. 2006 )

From June 26 until December 22, 2006, two children, Ammar ( 12-13 ) and Sara ( 10-11 ), lived in the Dutch embassy in Damascus because of a child custody dispute between the Dutch mother, supported by Dutch law and the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, and the Syrian father, supported by Syrian law ( Syria is no participant of this convention ).

In 2006, Gerd Leers, then mayor of the border city of Maastricht, on the Dutch-Belgian border, criticised the current policy as inconsistent, by recording a song with the Dutch punk rock band De Heideroosjes.

* 1930 – Bertha Brouwer, Dutch athlete ( d. 2006 )

* 1923 – Faas Wilkes, Dutch footballer ( d. 2006 )

A Canadian and U. S. led operation ( supported by British and Dutch forces ), Operation Mountain Thrust was launched in May 2006 to counter renewed Taliban insurgency.

Since January 2006, the NATO International Security Assistance Force undertook combat duties from Operation Enduring Freedom in southern Afghanistan, the NATO force chiefly made up of British, Canadian and Dutch forces ( and some smaller contributions from Denmark, Romania and Estonia and air support from Norway as well as air and artillery support from the U. S .) ( see the article Coalition combat operations in Afghanistan in 2006 ).

The Dutch team at the 2006 World ChampionshipsTwo teams of eight, whose total mass must not exceed a maximum weight as determined for the class, align themselves at the end of a rope approximately 10 centimetres in circumference.

In June 2006, two ministers from the Dutch government ( Sybilla Dekker and Piet Hein Donner ) proposed a plan to make squatting illegal.

** Cor van der Hart, Dutch footballer ( d. 2006 )

* April 25 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter ( died 2006 )

* October 13 – Faas Wilkes, Dutch football ( soccer ) player ( d. 2006 )

** Gerard Reve, Dutch writer ( d. 2006 )

** Bertha Brouwer, Dutch athlete ( d. 2006 )

** Rudi Carrell, Dutch singer and entertainer ( d. 2006 )