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

At the October 2006 Conservative Conference, she was Chief Dragon in a political version of the television programme Dragons ' Den, in which A-list candidates were invited to put forward a policy proposal, which was then torn apart by her team of Rachel Elnaugh, Oliver Letwin and Michael Brown.

At the 2006 census, its population was 52, 042, in 14, 184 families.

At a meeting in August 2006 with members of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, Wu Guanzheng, of the Communist Party of China, confirmed the intention of the People's Republic of China to fund a study into the feasibility of constructing a railway connecting at Isaka with the existing Tanzanian railway network, and running via Kigali in Rwanda through to Burundi.

At its most recent meeting, November 27 – December 1, 2006, the Conference of the Parties of the Basel Agreement focused on issues of electronic waste and the dismantling of ships.

At the end of 2006 a new port for mobile phones in Europe and Japan was released.

At the end of 2006, there were an estimated 150, 000 internally displaced people.

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.

At the close of 2006, the government had exceeded its budget for electricity subsidies, spending close to U. S. $ 650 million.

At the 2006 census, Ebor and the surrounding area had a population of 160.

* 2006 – At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £ 53m ( about $ 92. 5 million or € 78 million ) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

* Telephones-mobile cellular: At end of 2010, the mobile cellular penetration rate standing at around 67 percent ( 22 percent at end of 2006 ).

* 2006 – At least 122 people are killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200 passengers veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.

* 2006 – Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre and what Israel considers to be an attempt to stop rockets ' being fired, from Lebanon, at Israeli civilian targets.

At the November 2006 groundbreaking for a new ballpark for the New York Mets, Citi Field, it was announced that the main entrance, modeled on the one in Brooklyn's old Ebbets Field, would be called the Jackie Robinson Rotunda.

At the 2006 French Open, Hewitt reached the fourth round, where he lost to defending champion and eventual winner Rafael Nadal in four sets.

At the 2006 Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington, D. C., Hewitt was defeated by Arnaud Clément, 6 – 7 ( 1 ), 4 – 6, in a quarterfinals, after defeating Vincent Spadea in the second round and Denis Gremelmayr in the third round.

At the end of December 2005, authorities estimated that in 2006, the oil profits would be 47 billion ouguiyas ( about US $ 180 million ) and represent a quarter of the state budget, according to RFI.

At the end of the 1998 – 99 season, second tiers were added to the East and West Stands, raising capacity to around 67, 000, and between July 2005 and May 2006, 8, 000 more seats were added via second tiers in the north-west and north-east quadrants.

At the end of the Buenos Aires show in November 2006, Peter Hook suggested that the band should stop touring.

At the museum's PDP-1 restoration celebration in May 2006, Alan Kotok said his Macintosh PowerBook G4 laptop was 10, 000 times faster, came with 100, 000 times the RAM and 500, 000 times the storage, was 1 / 2000 the size, and cost 1 / 100 as much.

At the 2006 Macworld Conference & Expo, the MacBook Pro was introduced.

At the Major League Baseball All-Star game in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 11, 2006, many of the players on both teams wore yellow wristbands with the initials " RCW " in honor of Clemente.

At the end of January 2006, the Washington Nationals offered Sosa two different minor-league offers, both of which he turned down.

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

At the close of the Second World War the British government announced its intention to abolish the penal settlement.

* 1949 – At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth.

At this time, Lord Sandwich, together with the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, was advocating establishment of a British colony in New South Wales.

* 1868 – At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II.

At the durbar on July 22, 1880, Abdur Rahman was officially recognized as Amir, granted assistance in arms and money, and promised, in case of unprovoked foreign aggression, such further aid as might be necessary to repel it, provided that he align his foreign policy with the British.

At the same time, Charlton's emergence as the country's leading young football talent was completed when he was called up to join the England squad for a British Home Championship game against Scotland at Hampden Park.

At the same time, French lookouts on Heureux, the ninth ship in the French line, sighted the British fleet approximately off the mouth of Aboukir Bay.

At 19: 00 the identifying lights in the mizenmasts of the British fleet were lit.

* At Consett the closure of the British Steel works in 1980 marked the end of steel production in the Derwent Valley and the decline of the area.

At the centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room vacated by the British Library, its functions now moved to St Pancras.

At that time the British were busy making promises.

At the same time it encouraged Bulgarian aspirations over Thrace, preferring a Bulgarian Thrace to a Russian one, despite the assurances the British had given to the Russians in regard to their expansion there.

At Brigade gave the British Parachute Regiment permission to go in to the Bogside.

At the 2007 British Soap Awards, it won Best Storyline, and Kate Ford was voted Best Actress for her portrayal.

At the Battle of Waterloo — Napoleon's final battle — the French army had many more artillery pieces than either the British or Prussians.

At around the same time, British legislation was similarly freeing the corporation from historical restrictions.

* 1867 – At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

At the end of the war the state-of-the-art was represented by the British W class.

At the heart of the Great Game lay the willingness of Britain and Russia to subdue, subvert, or subjugate the small independent states that lay between Russia and British India.

At the same time, the Russians feared permanent British occupation in Central Asia as the British encroached northward, taking the Punjab, Sindh, and Kashmir ; later to become Pakistan.

At a conference with them Sir William MacNaghten was killed, but in spite of this, the sirdars ' demands were agreed to by the British and they withdrew.

At age 11, he began his acting career, appearing on the British television soap opera Coronation Street, which was produced at Granada Studios by Granada Television in Manchester.

At the 1993 British Academy Awards ( BAFTA ) the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film was introduced.