In 2006 ACM began recognizing two additional membership grades.

The BBC News at Ten began simulcasting on the channel on 30 January 2006 as part of the Ten O ' Clock Newshour, followed by extended sport and business news updates.

Nigeria began to withdraw its forces, comprising some 3, 000 troops, beginning 1 August 2006, and a ceremony on 14 August marked the formal handover of the northern part of the peninsula.

In 2006 Young established the Lulu Blooker Prize, a book prize for books that began as blogs.

In 2006, the Berkeley Oak Grove Protest began protesting construction of a new sports center annex to Memorial Stadium at the expense of a grove of oak trees on the UC campus.

It reached a partial trade agreement with India in 2005 and began negotiations for a full-fledged FTA with India in 2006.

Sirius Canada in fact initially chose not to air Stern based on the possibility of a future issue with the CRTC, although the company reversed its decision and began offering Howard Stern in 2006.

In March 2006, Djibouti held its first regional elections and began implementing a decentralization plan.

In 2006 and 2007 he began having new difficulties which made drawing a very slow and tedious process for him, even more so than normally.

What began as a programme of marginal acts has become the largest arts festival in the world, with 1867 different shows being staged in 2006, in 261 venues.

A 2006 exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum displayed graffiti as an art form that began in New York's outer boroughs and reached great heights in the early ' 80s with the work of Crash, Lee, Daze, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

In 2006, the United States Mint began production of the American Buffalo gold bullion coin with a purity of 99. 99 %.

Trams began carrying the passengers on the 1 July 2006 but during the first weeks there were many technical difficulties.

Starting with the 2006 season, the Texans wear all-white for their home opener and the team began to wear an all-blue combination for home games vs. the Indianapolis Colts.

Hezbollah alongside with some other groups began the 2006 – 2008 Lebanese political protests in opposition to the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.

On December 1, 2006, these groups began the 2006 – 2008 Lebanese political protests, a series of protests and sit-ins in opposition to the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.

The conflict began on July 12, 2006 when Hezbollah militants fired rockets at Israeli border towns as a diversion for an anti-tank missile attack on two armored Humvees patrolling the Israeli side of the border fence, killing three, injuring two, and seizing two Israeli soldiers.

By 2006, the Hummer began to be exported and sold through importers and distributors in 33 countries.

On October 10, 2006, GM began producing the Hummer H3 at its Port Elizabeth plant in South Africa for international markets.

In June 2006, prompted by a letter from Gary J. Aguirre, the Senate Judiciary Committee began an investigation into the links between hedge funds and independent analysts.

In late 2006, the FDA began forcing the recall of many of these formulations due to reports of deaths in infants and children under the age of six.

Many commentators on the Iraq War began, by the end of 2006, to refer to this violent escalation as a civil war.

* 2006 – Witnesses report seeing a bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the Thames since records began in 1913.

The Kenya Ranger Strike Force initiative began in 2006 with a request from KMOD ; creation of KRSF highlighted extensively in KMOD White Paper on Military Cooperation for 2011-2016.

Investment in the construction and industrial sectors is expected to continue in 2006 and will help to ensure annual average real GDP growth of about 13. 9 %.

This fact, together with annual GDP growth of above 5 %, has brought the government indebtedness to 22. 8 % of GDP in 2006 from 67. 3 % five years earlier.

However, as of September 2006, the PPM stands at 87. 5 % after a period of steady increases in the annual moving average since 2003.

The BBC Governors ' annual report for 2005 / 2006 reported that average audience figures for fifteen minute periods had reached 8. 6 % in multichannel homes, up from 7. 8 % in 2004 / 2005.

As of 2006, Chile invested only 0. 6 % of its annual GDP in research and development ( R & D ).

For instance, since 2006, annual Canada Day celebrations have been held at Trafalgar Square — the location of Canada House — in London, England ; initiated by the Canadian community in the United Kingdom, endorsed by the Canadian High Commission, and organised by a private promotions company, the event features Canadian performers and a demonstration of street hockey, among other activities.

The city has been ranked as high as the second-best place to live in the United States by Money Magazine's annual list, but has not been ranked in the top 100 since 2006.

Image: AYool SEAWIFS annual. png | SeaWiFS-derived average sea surface chlorophyll for the period 1998 to 2006.

According to The Hollywood Reporter < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s annual Star Salary Top 10, she was tied for eighth place on the top ten list of actresses ' salaries, commanding 10 to 12 million dollars per movie for 2006.

On January 20, 2006, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi devoted part of his annual keynote speech to the controversy, pledging to submit a bill allowing women to ascend the throne to ensure that the succession continues in the future in a stable manner.

As of 2006, its annual average rainfall is, though about 80 % of the rain falls between May and September.

IPEC currently has operations in 88 countries, with an annual expenditure on technical cooperation projects that reached over US $ 74 million, € 50 million in 2006.

The Green Party in Northern Ireland voted to become a region of the Green Party in Ireland in 2005 at its annual convention, and again in a postal ballot in March 2006.

In 2006, the median annual salary for industrial – organizational psychologists was US $ 86, 420.

Environment-current issues: In the 2006 environment annual report, the Ministry of Environment reported that current major issues are global warming and preservation of the ozone layer, conservation of the atmospheric environment, water and soil, waste management and recycling, measures for chemical substances, conservation of the natural environment and the participation in the international cooperation.

On the first day of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the Altador Cup started as an annual international online gaming event and had 10. 4 million participants the first year.

A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December 2006 found that even a small-scale, regional nuclear war could disrupt the global climate for a decade or more.

* OneWebDay, an annual day of Internet celebration and awareness, started in 2006.

SGI announced it was postponing its scheduled annual December stockholders meeting until March 2006.

The annual national championship for Club Racing is called the SCCA National Championship Runoffs and has been held at Riverside International Raceway ( 1964, 1966, 1968 ), Daytona International Speedway ( 1965, 1967, 1969 ), Road Atlanta ( 1970 – 1993 ), Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course ( 1994 – 2005 ), and Heartland Park Topeka ( 2006 – 2008 ).

The band was awarded the lifetime achievement award at the annual Meteor Ireland Music Awards in February 2006.

Mexico, once the leading producer of natural vanilla, with an annual 500 tons, produced only 10 tons of vanilla in 2006.

The Rio also hosted the 2006 World Series of Poker, which began on June 25 with satellite events and formally began the day after with the annual Casino Employee event, won in 2006 by Chris Gros.

A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December 2006 asserted that even a small-scale regional nuclear war could produce as many direct fatalities as all of World War II and disrupt the global climate for a decade or more.