In 2006 SGC Classical Cats Valentino won the TICA International Cat of the year.

On June 17, 2006, Anderson's number was retired by the Fort Worth Cats, for whom Anderson had played in 1955.

On 8 October 2006, it became the longest-running musical in world history, overtaking the former record set by Cats.

In 2006, the British Big Cats Society reported that a skull found by a Devon farmer was that of a Puma ; however, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( Defra ) states, " Based on the evidence, Defra does not believe that there are big cats living in the wild in England.

Stan Hough was named the Cats ' manager on Dec. 6, 2005, taking over for Wayne Terwilliger, who remained with the club as Hough's first base coach in 2006.

Luke Hochevar pitched for the Cats in 2006, making four starts ( 1-1, 2. 38 ERA ) prior to being drafted # 1 overall in the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft by the Kansas City Royals.

Buckley sang " Memory " from Cats at the Kennedy Center Honors in December 2006 as part of the tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber.

During an appearance on the Channel 4 topical panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats ( 26 May 2006 ) he revealed that he had been voted the " World's 6th Sexiest Jew ".

In 2006, she wrote a song " Still Crazy for You " for Crazy Cats, a Japanese comedy team popular in the late 1950s and 1960s, and sung a duet with the vocalist Kei Tani.

Valley Cats play in 2006.

Gary Cathcart was named the team's new manager on November 28, 2007 ; Cathcart had served as the Fisher Cats ' hitting coach during 2005 and 2006, and had most recently managed the single-A Lansing Lugnuts.

The Lions, known as the Cats between the 1998 and 2006 seasons, are a South African rugby union team who competed in the Super Rugby competition.

On 8 September 2006, the Golden Lions Rugby Union, the company that operates both the Golden Lions and the Cats, announced that the team would be known in the future as the Lions, and unveiled a new logo .< ref >

On January 9, 2006, The Phantom of the Opera at the Majestic Theatre became the longest running Broadway musical, with 7, 486 performances, overtaking Cats.

The musical celebrated its 20th anniversary at the venue on 8 October 2005 and overtook Cats as the longest running musical of all time a year later on 8 October 2006.

* 2006 Kisarazu Cats Eye: World series ( TBS )

It overtook Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, which closed in 2002 after running for 8, 949 performances and 21 years, as the longest-running West End musical of all time on 8 October 2006.

Therefore Hoyte instead joined Sunderland, on August 31, 2005 and played for the Black Cats for the entire 2005 – 06 season, making 31 appearances and scoring 1 goal against Newcastle United in April 2006.

In 2006, Chanté starred as herself in the indie flick " Cats Cradle ".

* The Cats of Mirikitani Documentary about artist and Tule Lake renunciant, Jimmy Mirikitani, 2006, produced and directed by Linda Hattendorf.

On September 3, 2006, the ' Cats finished their second season six games back in the wild card race and missed the playoffs.

Prior to being accepted into the 2006 Super 14 season, the Cheetahs areas were represented as a part of the Cats franchise.

Stern joined the Heads Up label with the August 2006 release of Who Let the Cats Out?

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

* 2006: Laterna Magica Prize ( Children of Men, won )

Rapper Jawat won the " Grote prijs van Nederland " 2006.

In the 2006 general election, the final election to which the party participated with its own list, AN won 12. 3 % of the vote, securing 71 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 41 in the Senate.

The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) and The Left ( Die Linke ) took control of the city government after the 2001 state election and won another term in the 2006 state election.

In 2006 the Herald won two SABEW awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for its breaking news coverage of the takeover of local company Gillette Co. and for overall excellence.

Founded 1994 ; won 6 Congressional seats ( 10 % of the Assembly ) in 2002 and again in 2006.

The prohibition was officially recognized as unconstitutional in April 2003, allowing Óscar Arias to run for President a second time in the 2006 Costa Rican presidential elections, which he won with approximately a 1 % margin.

The Leyland era lasted just one year, as a frustrated Leyland retired following the season, not to manage in the majors again until 2006, when he won an AL Pennant with the Detroit Tigers.

" Columbus won the national contest " America in Bloom " in 2006, and in 2004 it was named one of " The Ten Most Playful Towns " by Nick Jr. Family Magazine.

A new election was held on 29 October 2006, which Kabila won with 70 % of the vote.

* 2006: Audi R10 TDI won 12 hours running in Sebring and defeated all other engine concepts.

The same car won the 2006 24 Hours of Le Mans.

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 ).

In February 2006, UK Prime Minister Blair, acknowledging that the EPRDF has won the election, said he wanted to see Ethiopia resolve its internal problems and continue on a democratic path.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

* 2006 Texas Governor Election ( a real-life example where incumbent Rick Perry won re-election despite gaining less than 40 percent of the vote )

In 2006, Harvey Mudd was also named one of the " new Ivy leagues " by Kaplan and Newsweek, while the mathematics department won the first American Mathematical Society Award for Exemplary Program.

* In 2006, the Bulldogs won the 2006 Preseason NIT, beating most notably Indiana and Notre Dame to reach the semifinals in New York City.

The Colts won the next three matches, notching two regular season victories and a win in the 2006 AFC Championship game on the way to their win in Super Bowl XLI.

Spader also won the Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Series, Comedy or Musical for Boston Legal in 2006.

On 28 May 2006, Loach won the Palme d ' Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival for his film The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a film about the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Irish Civil War during the 1920s.