On 7 July 2006, the new Town Museum of Abensberg was opened in the former duke's castle in the town.

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.

Founded 2000 by former PLN member ; strong showings in 2002 and 2006 elections ( 30 % of Assembly in 2006 ).

The 2006 national election was expected to be a landslide for former President ( 1986 – 1990 ) and PLN's candidate Óscar Arias, but it turned out to be the closest in modern history.

In March 2006, the parliament overturned a veto by President Václav Klaus, and the Czech Republic became the first former communist country in Europe to grant legal recognition to same-sex partnerships.

Ariel Sharon's formation of the centrist Kadima party in 2006 drew support from former Labor and Likud members, and Kadima ruled in coalition with several other parties.

The stand on Stevenage Road celebrated its centenary in the 2005 – 2006 season and, following the death of Fulham FC's favourite son, former England captain Johnny Haynes, in a car accident in October 2005 the Stevenage Road Stand was renamed the Johnny Haynes Stand after the club sought the opinions of Fulham supporters.

Les Reed replaced Dowie as manager, however he too failed to improve Charlton's position in the league table and on Christmas Eve 2006, Reed was replaced by former player Alan Pardew.

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.

During the expansion, Drexel was officially united with the former MCP Hahnemann University, creating the Drexel University College of Medicine in 2002 ; and in the fall of 2006, Drexel established its School of Law, which was fully accredited by American Bar Association ( ABA ) in 2011.

In November 2006, student government attempted to revive the " Dartmoose " as a potential replacement amid renewed controversy surrounding the former Indian mascot.

* 2006 – Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi Dictator, ( executed for war crimes ) ( b. 1937 )

In February 2006, a University of California Blue Ribbon Commission that included Lawrence Korb, a former assistant defense secretary during the Reagan administration, William Perry, Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration, and professors from the United States Military Academy released their assessment of the GAO's analysis of the cost of DADT released a year earlier.

In 2006, a speaking tour of gay former service members, organized by SLDN, Log Cabin Republicans, and Meehan, visited 18 colleges and universities.

Premier Frank Hsieh, DPP election organizer and former mayor of Kaohsiung twice tendered a verbal resignation immediately following the election, but his resignation was not accepted by President Chen until January 17, 2006 after the DPP chairmanship election had concluded.

According to former DARPA Director Tony Tether and W. B. Bonvillian (“ Power Play ,” W. B. Bonvillian, The American Interest, Volume II, p 39, November – December 2006 ), DARPA's key characteristics to be replicated to reproduce DARPA's success are:

In 2006, Chihuly filed a lawsuit against his former longtime employee, glassblower Bryan Rubino, and businessman Robert Kaindl, under accusations of copyright and trademark infringement.

In 2006, Wallach made a guest appearance on the NBC show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, playing a former writer who was blacklisted in the 1950s.

He purchased the former Inglenook Winery chateau in 1995 and renamed the winery Rubicon Estate Winery in 2006.

In 2006, he was moved by the club to coach the Berretti Under-19 squad, with his former fellow Filippo Galli replacing him at the helm of the Primavera squad.

In February 2009, the Polish paper Polska wrote that over one third of the Federation top officials were former Nazi activists, and based this on an article published by the German magazine Der Spiegel in 2006.

In December 2006, Major led calls for an independent inquiry into Tony Blair's decision to invade Iraq, following revelations made by Carne Ross, a former British senior diplomat, that contradict Blair's case for the invasion.

In December 2006, Polgár played a six-game match of blindfold rapid chess against former FIDE world champion Veselin Topalov.

As of December 2006, Jones was one of five serving Marine Corps four-star general officers who outranked the current commandant of the Marine Corps ( General James T. Conway ) in terms of seniority and time in grade — the others being Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace ; former commandant Michael Hagee, commander of U. S. Strategic Command James E. Cartwright, and Assistant Commandant Robert Magnus.

During World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).

* 1945 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization ( d. 2006 )

Aachen hosted the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games and 2011 CHIO Aachen.

* Paul Lunde, The coming of the Portuguese, 2006, Saudi Aramco World

* 2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.

In a 2006 Quinnipiac University poll asking respondents to name the best president since World War II, Clinton ranked number two behind Ronald Reagan.

Yorke, Hislop and Latapy would go on to play for Trinidad and Tobago at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

He was instrumental in organizing the World Baseball Classic in 2006.

* World Baseball Classic ( 2006 )

: In the 2006 edition of The World Factbook, the entries for Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Johnston Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and the Midway Islands were merged into a new United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges entry.

Nelson's 2006 Fishes of the World arranges the class as follows:

The CIA World Factbook estimates the military budget of Chad to be 4. 2 % of GDP as of 2006 ..

* CIA World Factbook 2006

Daniel Kehlmann's 2005 novel Die Vermessung der Welt, translated into English as Measuring the World ( 2006 ), explores Gauss's life and work through a lens of historical fiction, contrasting them with those of the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt.

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.

*" Cassiopeia ," a song by Rain from his 4th album ( 2006 ) Rain's World

; 2006 FIFA World Cup winner

* CIA World Factbook, 2006

The Tigers have won four World Series championships ( 1935, 1945, 1968, and 1984 ) and have won the American League pennant 10 times ( 1907, 1908, 1909, 1934, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1968, 1984, and 2006 ).

Devo continued to tour actively in 2005 and 2006, unveiling a new stage show at shows in October 2006, and an appearance of the Jihad Jerry character performing " Beautiful World " as an encore.

# 2006 Rome: Angelo Cangelosi, Andrew D. M. Smith, Kenny Smith The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, World Scientific, ISBN 981-256-656-2.

Enya was awarded the World's Best-Selling Irish Act award at the World Music Awards in London on 19 November 2006.

The England team during the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

to the quarter-finals of the 2002 World Cup and 2006 World Cup.