* 1942 – Barbara George, American singer-songwriter ( d. 2006 )

* 1925 – George Wetherill, American physicist ( d. 2006 )

In May 2006, a CNN poll comparing Clinton's job performance with that of his successor, George W. Bush, found that a strong majority of respondents said Clinton outperformed Bush in six different areas questioned.

However, in July 2006, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor George Pataki, and Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. announced the final approval for the New York City Housing Trust Fund derived from $ 130 million in Battery Park City revenues.

On March 30, 2006, as a response to the controversy of the use of performance-enhancing drugs and the anticipated career home run record to be set by Barry Bonds, Selig asked former senator George Mitchell to lead an independent investigation into the use of steroids in baseball's recent past.

* Leslie Geddes ( deceased )- Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, electrical engineer, inventor, and educator of over 2000 biomedical engineers, received a National Medal of Technology in 2006 from President George Bush for his more than 50 years of contributions that have spawned innovations ranging from burn treatments to miniature defibrillators, ligament repair to tiny blood pressure monitors for premature infants, as well as a new method for performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( CPR ).

* 1918 – George Rallis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece ( d. 2006 )

Rumsfeld served as the 13th Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and as the 21st Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush.

President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and President George W. Bush, in Estonia 2006.

It was signed into law on October 13, 2006 by President George W. Bush.

The 2006 film The Death of a President was filmed in the style of a television documentary, filmed years after the event, to tell the story of the fictional assassination of U. S. President George W. Bush, and the aftermath, to realistic effect.

On September 19, 2006, USC announced that George Lucas had donated $ 175 – 180 million to his alma mater to expand the film school.

On June 17, 2006, the Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted George Lucas and three others.

* Haggerty, George ( 2006 ).

On September 6, 2006, President George W. Bush announced that alleged combatants held by the CIA would be transferred to the custody of Department of Defense, and held at Guantanamo Prison.

George Fox – An Autobiography, an annotated and slightly abridged text, is also available in print ( e. g. Friends United Press, 2006 ; ISBN 0-913408-24-7 ) and online ( ).

In a 9 March 2006 press release, HBC announced that Zucker would replace George Heller as the new Governor and CEO, to become the first US citizen to lead the company.

* 2006 – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U. S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U. S. and international law.

* Lillback, Peter A .. George Washington's Sacred Fire. Providence Forum Press, 2006.

American businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks became the owners of the club during the 2006 – 07 season, in a deal which valued the club and its outstanding debts at £ 218. 9 million.

* 2006 – The National Museum of the Marine Corps is opened and dedicated by U. S. President George W. Bush and announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will receive the Medal of Honor in Quantico, Virginia.

*" President Bush Honors Medal of Freedom Recipients ", a news release from the White House Press Secretary, December 15, 2006, containing a transcript of President George W. Bush's opening remarks at the December 15, 2006, presentation ( with link to individual citations ).

* Punch and Judy: A Short History with the Original Dialogue by John Payne Collier, illustrated by George Cruikshank ( 1929, 2006 ) Dover Books

In August 2006, a limited online version of Domesday Book was made available by the United Kingdom's National Archives site, charging users £ 2 per page to view the manuscript.

The manuscript did not arouse much interest immediately after the war, but it was discovered a few weeks before his death in 2004 and published as The American Home Front: 1941 – 1942 in the United States ( and as Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War in the UK ) in 2006.

So that ignoring copies, ( 4 ) is the only known manuscript that remains unpublished as of 2006.

A 2006 film, Stranger than Fiction, has the main character's life directed by the manuscript of a novel as it is typed up.

However, in 2006 one 4th century Sahidic papyrus manuscript ( Bodleian MS. Copt. e. 150 ( P )) came to light that may end at 20: 31.

A recording released in 2006 used a text based on Elgar's manuscript score rather than the published version.

Also, in 2006 an autograph manuscript was discovered ( and subsequently sold at Sotheby's ), reportedly containing 35 pieces of music, 18 of which were previously unknown.

Over the decades, the manuscript had been handled with less than sympathetic care: some single pages may be loose on the antiquities market ( one half page turned up in Feb. 2006, in New York City ); the text is now in over a thousand pieces and fragments, and is believed to be less than three-quarters complete.

The completion of the restoration and translation was announced by the National Geographic Society at a news conference in Washington, D. C. on April 6, 2006, and the manuscript itself was unveiled then at the National Geographic Society headquarters, accompanied by a television special entitled The Gospel of Judas on April 9, 2006, which was aired on the National Geographic Channel.

Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report for 2006 was released on June 4, 2006.

In 2006 the following crime statistics were reported to the Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Reporting System by the city police department:

National legislation on consent and tissue donation issues is expressed in the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act ( 2006 ) passed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws which states that " an anatomical gift of a donor ’ s body or part may be made during the life of the donor for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education " and prohibits trafficking in donated human organs for profit.

Uniform Law Commission-Anatomical Gift Act ( 2006 )

Uniform Law Commission-Anatomical Gift Act ( 2006 )

On May 18, 2006, the Department of the Air Force introduced prototypes of two new service dress uniforms, one resembling those worn by Air Service officers prior to 1926, called the " Billy Mitchell heritage coat ," and another, resembling the U. S. Army Air Forces ' Uniform of World War II and named the " Hap Arnold heritage coat ".

Assembly Bill 371 ( Goldberg 2006 ) and Senate Bill 283 ( DeSaulnier 2009 ) directed the California Department of Water Resources ( DWR ), in consultation with the State Department of Health Services, to adopt and submit to the CBSC regulations for a State version of Appendix J ( renamed Chapter 16 Part 2 ) of the Uniform Plumbing Code to provide design standards to safely plumb buildings with both potable and recycled water systems.

U. S. Army soldiers showcase the Army Combat Uniform, Desert Camouflage Uniform, and a World War II-era uniform during a Public Service Recognition Week event at the National Mall in Washington, D. C., in May 2006.

In 2006, a new BDU called the Airman Battle Uniform ( ABU ) was adopted, using a semi-pixelated tiger pattern with four soft earth tones consisting of tan, grey, green and blue.

Based on recommendations made during a comprehensive briefing by Task Force Uniform on Feb. 24 2006, CNO Michael G. Mullen agreed to production of both a BDU-style working uniform for all Sailors E-1 to O-10 and a more practical, year-round service uniform to withstand day-to-day classroom and office-like environments where the service uniform is typically worn.

On 6 June 2006 the US Army announced that its green and white uniforms would be superseded by the Army Blue Uniform as a universal service uniform in the historic colours of dark blue ( for tunics ) and light blue ( for trousers ).

Also, when any given jurisdiction adopts a model building code, it adopts a specific edition of the model code ( for example, the 1997 Uniform Building Code or the 2006 International Building Code ), which then becomes the law of that jurisdiction.

* The film Loving Annabelle ( 2006 ) was reportedly inspired by Mädchen in Uniform.

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U. S. 557 ( 2006 ), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay lack " the power to proceed because its structures and procedures violate both the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the four Geneva Conventions signed in 1949.

On June 29, 2006, the Court issued a 5-3 decision holding that it had jurisdiction, that the administration did not have authority to set up these particular military commissions without congressional authorization, because they did not comply with the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Geneva Convention ( which the court found to be incorporated into the Uniform Code of Military Justice ).

* The Uniform Scale of Fines ( Sark ) Law, 1989 as amended by the Uniform Scale of Fines ( Sark ) ( Amendment ) Ordinance, 1992, the Uniform Scale of Fines ( Sark ) ( Amendment ) Ordinance, 2004, and the Uniform Scale of Fines ( Sark ) ( Amendment ) Ordinance, 2006.