* 1920 – Leo Chiosso, Italian songwriter and producer ( d. 2006 )

* 2006: Grand Cross of Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

In 2006 Italian scientists created an amorphous phase of carbon dioxide using extreme pressure.

In 2006 a major scandal in Italian football revealed that certain clubs had been illegally influencing the referee selection process, in an attempt to ensure that certain referees were assigned to their matches.

Between 17 May 2006 and 21 February 2007 Romano Prodi served as Prime Minister of Italy following the narrow victory of his l ' Unione coalition over the Casa delle Libertà led by Silvio Berlusconi in the April 2006 Italian elections.

On 26 May 2006, Italian foreign minister Massimo D ' Alema announced that the Italian forces would be reduced to 1, 600 by June ; Italian participation in the military operations in Iraq was concluded by the end of 2006, with full withdrawal of Italian military personnel except for a small group of about 30 soldiers engaged in providing security for the Italian embassy in Baghdad, and about 87 soldiers stationing in bases in the Persian Gulf ( but not in Iraqi territory ).

As of June 2006 32 Italian troops have been killed in Iraq – with the greatest single loss of life coming on November 12, 2003 – a suicide car bombing of the Italian Carabinieri Corps HQ left a dozen Carabinieri, five Army soldiers, two Italian civilians, and eight Iraqi civilians dead.

In Canada, Italian is the second most spoken non-official language when Chinese dialects are not combined, with over 660, 000 speakers ( or about 2. 1 % of the population ) according to the 2006 Census.

* 1942 – Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer ( d. 2006 )

* Vivere ( May 2006 ) ( Italian TV Series ) ... Emir Ibrahim

On January 1, 2006 he received the Grand Officer award from President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.

* 1919 – Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director ( d. 2006 )

In 2006, the movie Copying Beethoven referred to Salieri in a more positive light.

In 2006, Charles starred in two feature films: the fantasy film Fated, and the gangster movie Clubbing to Death.

* In the 2006 animated movie Barnyard, a group of tough talking cattle from New Jersey go " boy-tipping " in response to similar behavior against cattle.

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.

* A 2006 movie about Esther and Ahasuerus, entitled One Night with the King, stars Tiffany Dupont and Luke Goss.

He would make a cameo in the movie Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector and was in an episode of CSI: New York in 2006.

The movie was screened at a special presentation at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, and was reviewed favourably.

Since 2006, the Met has broadcast live performances to several hundred movie screens all over the world.

Numerous films were made from it in the 1960s, and in 2006 a nostalgic comedy was made, celebrating the spy movie genre, Cairo, Nest of Spies, with Jean Dujardin playing OSS 117.

* Origin: Spirits of the Past, a 2006 anime movie also known as Gin-iro no Kami no Agito

In his autobiography, Just One More Thing ( 2006 ), Falk said that his selection for the film from thousands of other Off-Broadway actors was a " miracle " that " made my career " and that without it, he would not have gotten the other significant movie roles that he later played.

Carr used Crowe's movie Cinderella Man to motivate his team in 2006 following a disappointing 7 – 5 season the previous year.

Later versions of the story have followed suit: the 1991 movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and 2006 BBC TV series Robin Hood each contain equivalents of Nasir, in the figures of Azeem and Djaq respectively.

The Sampo is also being forged in the 2006 movie Jade Warrior.

Bandai also later released the series in several different box sets, including a Limited Edition set released on July 23, 2002, a " Perfect Collection "— which included the Escaflowne feature length movie — released October 26, 2004, and an " Anime Legends " box set on April 11, 2006.

* Venus ( film ), 2006 movie starring Peter O ' Toole

In June 2006 Hanks was inducted as an honorary member of the United States Army Rangers Hall of Fame for his accurate portrayal of a Captain in the movie Saving Private Ryan ; Hanks, who was unable to attend the induction ceremony, was the first actor to receive such an honor.

In July 2006 Greg Bear mentioned on his website that the movie is " Still under option.

* Busker Alley ( Off-Broadway, 2006, one-performance benefit concert ), Sherman Brothers musical based on the 1938 movie St. Martin's Lane, directed by Tony Walton

* In 2006 a two-episode TV movie was broadcast by Italian state television RAI, dedicated to the magistrate, starring Massimo Dapporto as Falcone and Elena Sofia Ricci as his wife Francesca Morvillo.

In the 2006 movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby starring Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen, Cohen's character is reading a copy of L ' Etranger while he is driving his NASCAR race car.

In the 2006 movie Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Andrew Lincoln's character, Jamie, pretends to know what the book is about.

In the 2006 book, In Vogue: The Illustrated History of the World's Most Famous Fashion Magazine ( Rizzoli ), the editors cite Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Tatjana Patitz, and Claudia Shiffer when quoting Vogue Magazine Editor-In-Chief, Anna Wintour, who said, " Those girls were so fabulous for fashion and totally reflected that time ... were like movie stars.

In 2006, Warner Home Video released a new, Christmas-themed Looney Tunes direct-to-video movie called Bah, Humduck!

* 2006: Golden Lion ( Children of Men, nominated )

A player flies high at the Golden Gate Badminton Club ( GGBC ) in Menlo Park, 2006

He has been dating Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, since 2006 and she has accompanied him to several events including the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in February 2007, an American Film Institute event in October 2007, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival held in May, and the 2010 Golden Globes.

* 2006 Golden Eagle

His final U. S. performance was in San Francisco on August 20, 2006, as headliner at the Festival of the Golden Gate ( Foggfest ) on the Great Meadow at Fort Mason.

She has received critical acclaim for her roles in Volver ( 2006 ) and Nine ( 2009 ) receiving Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for each.

" She shared a Best Actress award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival with five of her co-stars, as well as receiving a Goya Award and European Film Award, and was nominated for the Golden Globe, the Screen Actors Guild Award, the BAFTA Award, and the Academy Award for Best Actress in a leading role.

Frazer ( 2006: p. 106 ) in The Golden Bough tells us that, “ In modern Greece, when the foundation of a new building is being laid, it is the custom to kill a cock, a ram, or a lamb, and to let its blood flow on the foundation-stone ”.

In late 2006, Crow was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the song " Try Not To Remember " ( Best Original Song category ) from the film Home of the Brave.

In 2006, Bogdanovich joined forces with ClickStar, where he hosts a classic film channel, Peter Bogdanovich's Golden Age of Movies.

" This short, so-called " blooper " can also be found on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 of 2006, under the title Porky's Breakdowns ( with several versions of the clip, making it look like a true " blooper "), and on an Each Dawn I Die DVD box set, also released in 2006.

The same year, both the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild nominated DiCaprio twice in the Best Actor category for both of his 2006 features, and in addition, DiCaprio earned his third Academy Award nomination for Blood Diamond.

Fermilab won the 2006 Golden Family Award from the Society of Women Engineers.

Because of this, a Japanese-language film like Letters from Iwo Jima ( 2006 ) or a Mayan-language film like Apocalypto ( 2006 ) were unable to compete for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, even though they were both nominated for ( and, in the case of Letters from Iwo Jima, won ) the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, which does not have similar nationality restrictions.

During the 2006 offseason, Golden State announced that it had bought out the remaining two years of head coach Mike Montgomery's contract and hired previous Golden State and former Dallas Mavericks coach Don Nelson to take over in his place.

After these disillusions, he briefly retired from international football but returned to the national team in 2005 and captained France to the 2006 World Cup Final where he won the Golden Ball as the tournament's most outstanding player.

Thanks to Diego Milito's 23 goals in 2006 – 07 ( he finished third to Roma's Francesco Totti and Real Madrid's Ruud van Nistelrooy-26 and 25 goals, respectively-in the European Golden Shoe race ), Real Zaragoza finished in sixth position, thus qualifying to the UEFA Cup.

Tourism is of foremost importance with the suburban beachfront resorts of Golden Sands, Holiday Club Riviera, Sunny Day, Constantine and Helena, and others with a total capacity of over 60, 000 beds ( 2005 ), attracting millions of visitors each year ( 4. 74 million in 2006, 3. 99 million of which international tourists ).

* Venice Film Festival: 1960 Golden Lion, for L ' Année dernière à Marienbad ; and 2006 Silver Lion, for Cœurs

Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age, Belknap Press, 2006.

Volume 4 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series, released on November 14, 2006, has an entire disc of Speedy shorts, although some of his other shorts had previously been released on Volumes 1 and 3.