* 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 )

At the end of 2006, BT ( the UK's former state owned monopoly phone company ) started offering BT Vision, which combines the digital free-to-air standard Freeview through an aerial, and on-demand IPTV, delivered over a BT Broadband connection through the Vision set-top box ( BT have chosen to deploy Microsoft's Mediaroom platform for this.

Six more digital 3-D movies were released in 2006 and 2007 ( including Beowulf, Monster House and Meet the Robinsons ).

" International Data Corporation estimates that approximately 160 exabytes of digital information were created, captured, and replicated worldwide in 2006.

All of Ireland's communications infrastructure is now digital but progress in broadband technology has been stagnant since 2006.

The latter two titles are now owned by WB for all media, but Superman IV is still part of Paramount's library for over-the-air TV and digital rights ( though WB did handle these rights for a three-year license 2006 – 09 );

domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations ; recent substantial improvement in telephone service in rural areas ; substantial increase in digitalization of exchanges and trunk lines ; installation of a national interurban fibre-optic network capable of digital multimedia services ; fixed-line teledensity, at 16 per 100 persons, is low by regional standards ; mobile-cellular subscribership jumped 50 percent in 2006

As of 2006, most new Palm handhelds include Photos, which creates a digital photo album used to view pictures on a Palm OS device.

In 2004 the United States Postal Service announced plans to introduce first day digital colour postmarks to be used to cancel some first day covers for commemorative stamps in 2005 and this practice has continued into 2006 and is currently ongoing as of 2012.

Fox is the only commercial television network ( broadcast, cable or satellite ) to air programs in widescreen on its digital feed that are not available in HD ; programs produced in this format were identified as being presented in " Fox High Resolution Widescreen " from 2001 to 2006, but are currently unbranded, and are now confined solely to select reality programming.

Since 1999, the Headmaster has been Dr John Marincowitz, who commissioned the new Martin swimming pool, opened in 2006, Shearly Hall, opened in 2009, and a digital library which is currently in construction.

In 2006, Greenaway began an ambitious series of digital video installations, Nine Classical Paintings Revisited, with his exploration of Rembrandt's Night Watch in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

In October 2006, Gabriel was given the first Pioneer Award at the BT Digital Music Awards, an award presented in recognition of his " profound and lasting influence on the development of digital music.

Leica released its first digital rangefinder camera, the Leica M8, in 2006.

The band's website, PPunk. com went live later in 2006 and by the end of the year the album was on iTunes, Napster and more than 7000 digital retailers world wide through Universal Digital and IODA ( US ).

The audio play was also broadcast on digital radio station BBC 7, on 10 December 2005 ( as a 2-hour omnibus ), and was repeated in six parts as the opening story to the Eighth Doctor's summer season which began on 16 July 2006.

Don and Ruth Taylor, longtime friends and supporters of the University of Calgary, donated $ 25 million in December, 2006 to help build the new digital library.

* 2006: Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith for the invention of the Charge-Coupled Device ( CCD ), a light-sensitive component at the heart of digital cameras and other widely used imaging technologies.

In 2006 the Towanda Area Historical Society partnered with the Towanda District Library to obtain a digital imaging grant from the Illinois State Library entitled “ Capturing Towanda ’ s Past for Eternity ”.

The era ended in June 2006, when the privately owned exchange switched to a digital trunk.

In November 2006, the National Film and Sound Archive released a new digital restoration which incorporated 11 minutes of material newly discovered in the United Kingdom.

A full stereo digital remix was done for the Cirque du Soleil show Love and album of the same name, released in 2006.

The government adopted DVB-T on November 2006 for digital terrestrial broadcasting but a year later, they will consider other standards to

In 2006, independent digital music distributor The Orchard announced that 94 titles from SST's back catalog would become available on digital services like eMusic and the iTunes Music Store.