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.

* 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 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.

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

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

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:

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

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 )

** Ann Richards, Governor of Texas ( 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.

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.

* 1941 – Daniel Schmid, Swiss film director ( d. 2006 )

* 1986 – Daniel Wayne Smith, American reality television personality ( d. 2006 )

In November 2006 the presidential election was won by Daniel Ortega, returned to power after 16 years in opposition.

Under current president Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua has stayed current with the Central American-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement, which entered into force for Nicaragua on April 1, 2006.

* Ksepka, Daniel T., Bertelli, Sara & Giannini, Norberto P. ( 2006 ): The phylogeny of the living and fossil Sphenisciformes ( penguins ).

Elizabeth played in the Main Event of the 2005 World Series of Poker under the guidance of Daniel Negreanu, and won a special tournament celebrating the opening of a new poker room at Caesars Palace hotel in January 2006, beating out 83 celebrities and poker professionals to win $ 55, 000.

In the 2006 Nicaraguan general election, former FSLN President Daniel Ortega was re-elected President of Nicaragua with 38. 7 % of the vote compared to 29 % for his leading rival, bringing in the country's second Sandinista government after 16 years of the opposition winning elections.

Daniel Ortega was once again re-elected as leader of the FSLN in March 2002 and re-elected as president of Nicaragua in November 2006.

In 2006, Daniel Ortega was elected president with 38 % of the vote ( see Nicaraguan general election, 2006 ).

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra November 5, 2006 ' won getting the 37. 99 % of the valid votes cast 930. 802 votes equivalent to relatively higher than the two forces princiapl opisitora presented at election they were the party of the Second Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance ( ALN ) with the degree candidate Eduardo Montealegre Rivas who won 693. 391 votes recorded corresponding to a 28. 30 % and third place went to the Constitutionalist Liberal Party with Dr. José Rizo Castellón who earned a total 664. 225 of valid votes corresponding to 27. 11 %.

* Adler, Jeremy, Beyond the Law: the artistry and enduring counter-cultural power of the kabbala, Times Literary Supplement 24 February 2006, reviewing: Daniel C Matt, translator The Zohar ; Arthur Green A Guide to the Zohar ; Moshe Idel Kabbalah and Eros.

On 15 May 2006, Daniel Barenboim was named Maestro Scaligero, or de facto principal guest conductor, of the company.

* Daniel Barenboim, ( 2006 – 2011, Maestro Scaligero ; music director effective December 2011 )

* Daniel Bunker Gilbreth ( September 17, 1917 – June 13, 2006 ) ( age 88 ); married Irene Jensen ; three children ( David Gilbreth, Danny Gilbreth, Peggy ).

In late 2006, the foundation sent out a holiday card featuring a picture of Electric Cord ( 1961 ), a painting that had been missing since 1970 after being sent out to art restorer Daniel Goldreyer by the Leo Castelli Gallery.

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.

* Johannes Kopf, Daniel Cohen-Or, Oliver Deussen, Dani Lischinski ( 2006 ), Recursive Wang Tiles for Real-Time Blue Noise shows advanced applications.

In 2006, the Stedelijk Museum and the University of Amsterdam held a talk on remodernism with Daniel Birnbaum and Alison Gingeras ; the introduction to this talked of the revival of painting as a possible return to traditional modernist values, such as authenticity, self-expression and autonomy, as opposed to multimedia practice.

By 2006, the water levels in Lake Victoria had reached an 80-year low, and Daniel Kull, an independent hydrologist living in Nairobi, Kenya, calculated that Uganda was releasing about twice as much water as is allowed under the agreement, and was primarily responsible for recent drops in the lake's level.

* 2006 Right Livelihood Award Recipient Daniel Ellsberg

Also, in August 2010 former Cuban president Fidel Castro wrote an article for the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma in which he cited Daniel Estulin ’ s 2006 book The Secrets of the Bilderberg Club, which, as quoted by Castro, describes " sinister cliques and the Bilderberg lobbyists " manipulating the public " to install a world government that knows no borders and is not accountable to anyone but its own self.

Amid accusations of vote-rigging Argüello narrowly won the mayoral election in Managua on November 9, 2008 elections against the candidate of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party, Eduardo Montealegre, who had come second to Daniel Ortega in the 2006 presidential election.