In March 2006 Texas judges upheld the state blue law that requires car dealerships to close either Saturday or Sunday each weekend.

* Michael A. Olivas, Colored Men And Hombres Aquí: Hernandez V. Texas and the Emergence of Mexican American Lawyering, Arte Público Press, 2006.

* Milan Williams ( keyboards, trombone, rhythm guitar ) – born March 28, 1948, Okolona, Mississippi, died of cancer, July 9, 2006, Houston, Texas.

Lagow provided the animal to Texas Parks and Wildlife officials for identification, but Lagow reported in a September 17, 2006 phone interview with John Adolfi, founder of the Lost World Museum, that the " critter was caught on a Tuesday and thrown out in Thursday's trash.

He was one of two independent candidates in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas.

She was killed in a traffic accident near Austin, Texas, on 2 August 2006.

Nicholas Lemann autographing a book at the 2006 Texas Book Festival.

Clemens is a member of the Republican Party and donated money to Texas congressman Ted Poe during his 2006 campaign.

* 1933 – Ann Richards, American politician, 45th Governor of Texas ( d. 2006 )

The team's use of the phrase " 12th Man " was in a legal limbo for a while between the 2005 and 2006 seasons when Texas A & M University sued the team for trademark infringement.

One key offseason trade between the San Diego Padres ' General Manager, Kevin Towers, and the Texas Rangers ' General Manager, Jon Daniels, would prove to have a dramatic impact on their 2006 season.

Since November 2006, Bullock founded a popular Austin, Texas restaurant, Bess Bistro.

The first sequel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 ( 1986 ), was considerably more graphic and violent than the original and was banned in Australia for 20 years before it was released on DVD in a revised special edition in October 2006.

It was followed by a prequel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, in 2006.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.

Waco, Texas: Baylor, 2006.

In League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry ( 2006 ), the Court ruled that Tom DeLay's Texas redistricting plan intentionally diluted the votes of Latinos and thus violated the Equal Protection Clause.

** Ann Richards, Governor of Texas ( d. 2006 )

The 2006 US reality series Knight School focused on students at Texas Tech University vying for a walk-on ( non-scholarship ) roster position on the school's men's basketball team under legendary coach Bob Knight.

In February 2006, Judd entered a program at Shades of Hope Treatment Center in Buffalo Gap, Texas and stayed for 47 days.

Four players have hit a grand slam on their first major-league at-bat: Bill Duggleby in 1898, Jeremy Hermida of the Florida Marlins, Kevin Kouzmanoff, then playing for the Cleveland Indians, off Edinson Volquez of the Texas Rangers on September 2, 2006, and Daniel Nava, then playing for the Boston Red Sox, off Joe Blanton of the Philadelphia Phillies on June 12, 2010.

In September 2006, Ventura endorsed and campaigned with independent Texas gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman, and Independence Party of Minnesota's gubernatorial candidate Peter Hutchinson and Team Minnesota.

On April 6, 2006, three and a half years after his retirement, Sampras resurfaced and played his first exhibition match in River Oaks, Houston, Texas, against 23-year-old Robby Ginepri.

During a road trip to Traverse City, MI in 2006, former Cy Young winner Doug Drabek served as manager while Wilson was tending to things at his Texas home.

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.

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.

On November 7, 2006, Lynch was re-elected Governor in a 74 % to 26 % landslide victory over Republican challenger Jim Coburn.

King, American politician, 66th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 2006 )

In 2006 the Governor Otunba Gbenga Daniel of the Nigerian state of Ogun announced that Barbadians would be given free land if they wished to move to Nigeria.

The current, and 22nd, Prime Minister of Canada is the Conservative Party's Stephen Harper, who was appointed on February 6, 2006, by Governor General Michaëlle Jean, following the general election that took place that year.

In 2006 the Governor stated:

On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Walt Disney into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.

* March 5 – Raymond P. Shafer, Governor of Pennsylvania ( d. 2006 )

** Robert Stafford, Governor of Vermont, U. S Representative and U. S. Senator ( d. 2006 )

Daley and Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich held a joint press conference on January 17, 2006 calling for a state-wide ban on the manufacture, possession, and delivery of semiautomatic assault weapons.

* Miles Russell ( 2006 ), " Roman Britain's Lost Governor ", Current Archaeology 204, pp. 630 – 635

It also voted for John Faso over Eliot Spitzer for Governor in 2006, and for John Spencer 55. 5 %- 42. 1 % over incumbent Hillary Clinton for the U. S. Senate in 2006.

The Beach Boys rescheduled their concert and played a Kirby Park concert on Labor Day weekend, Sunday September 3, 2006, attended by Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell.

The bill became law in 2006 when it was signed by Governor Schwarzenegger and included in Section 1262. 4 of the California Health and Safety Code.

Governor Ed Rendell lost Westmoreland in both 2002 and 2006.

Due to population growth Pike County is trending more Democratic as Democratic Governor Ed Rendell won Pike in 2006 with 53 %.

Governor Ed Rendell narrowly carried it against Lynn Swann while Republican Rick Santorum narrowly carried it against Bob Casey in 2006.

In 2006 both Democrats Governor Ed Rendell and now Senator Bob Casey Jr. won 67. 5 % and 60. 6 % of the vote in Luzerne County, respectively.

In 2006, Democrat Governor Ed Rendell and Senator Bob Casey, Jr. won 59 % and 65 % of the vote in Fayette County.