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Events

January

• January 4 - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a massive stroke, resulting in his authority being transferred to Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
• January 15
  • A run-off election takes place in Chile for the office of president, resulting in a win for Michelle Bachelet.
  • The first round of Finnish presidental elections take place, resulting in a run-off on January 29.
• January 16 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as president of Liberia She becomes the first female elected head of state in Africa.
• January 22
  • Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the first indigenous president in the nation's history.
  • A parliamentary election takes place in Cape Verde.
  • Presidential elections take place in Portugal, resulting in a win for Aníbal Cavaco Silva.
• January 23 - Stephen Harper's Conservative Party wins the most seats in the Canadian federal election. Harper becomes the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada with a minority government.
• January 25 - Hamas wins a victory in the Palestinian legislative election, taking 76 of the 132 seats.
• January 27 - Elections for the legislative body, the Estates, take place in the Netherlands Antilles.
• January 29
  • Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is sworn in as the Emir of Kuwait.
  • Tarja Halonen is elected President of Finland following a run-off election against Sauli Niinistö.

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February

• February 2 - Representative John Boehner of Ohio becomes the U.S. House Majority Leader, beating out acting majority leader Roy Blunt in a house vote.
• February 3 - Dutch D66 party chairman Boris Dittrich resigns because the Dutch Government voted 'Yes' to Dutch participation in a NATO-led ISAF operation in Afghanistan.
• February 4 - Twenty-seven out of 35 countries on the IAEA's Board of Governors vote to refer the nuclear program of Iran to the United Nations Security Council out of concern over Iran's plans to enrich nuclear materials and to refuse IAEA inspection of the process.
• February 5 - Costa Rica holds a presidential election. The results are deemed too close to call, resulting in a manual count of votes that would not be completed until March 7.
• February 7 - Haiti holds an election to replace the interim government of Gerard Latortue. The 129 member Haitian parliament is also elected at this time.
• February 8
  • Chad and Sudan sign the Tripoli Agreement, ending the Chadian-Sudanese conflict.
  • Heather Wilson, a New Mexico Congresswoman with NSA oversight authority, becoming the first Republican on an intelligence committee to call for a congressional investigation into Bush's warrantless wiretap program.
• February 11 - Tokelau begins voting in a referendum to determine whether it remains a New Zealand territory, or becomes a state in free association with New Zealand.
• February 12 - Presidential elections are held in Cape Verde, resulting in Pedro Pires being elected to office.
• February 15 - In a case of apparent electoral fraud, hundreds of ballot boxes are discovered in a garbage dump in Haiti, throwing the results of the elections there in doubt.
• February 23 - General elections are held in Uganda, resulting in the election of Yoweri Museveni to a third term.
• February 24 - In an attempt to subdue a possible military coup, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017, placing the country in a state of emergency.

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March

• March 11 - Michelle Bachelet is sworn in as the first female President of Chile.

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April

• April 9 - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is removed from office after 4 months in a coma.
• April 10 - Romano Prodi defeats Silvio Berlusconi in a close race in the Italian parliamentary elections.
• April 11 - President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, confirms that Iran has successfully produced a few grams of 3.5% low-grade enriched uranium.
• April 19 - Han Myung-sook becomes South Korea's first female Prime Minister.

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May

• May 24 - East Timor's Foreign Minister Horta officially requests military assistance from the governments of Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Portugal.
• May 28 - President Alvaro Uribe Velez is re-elected in Colombia for a second term. He becomes the first president in over a century to serve consecutive terms.

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June

• June 10 - Palestian President Mahmoud Abbas sets July 26 as the date for a national referendum in Palestine.

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July

• July 2 - A presidential election is held in Mexico. Felipe Calderón is confirmed as the winner on September 5.
• July 14 - Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the Law and Justice party, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Poland by his identical twin, President Lech Kaczyński.
• July 28 - Alejandro Toledo concludes his term as President of Peru. Alan Garcia becomes president.
• July 31 - Fidel Castro, President of Cuba, temporarily relinquishes power to his brother Raúlbefore surgery.

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August

• August 3 - Tuvalu holds parliamentary elections.
• August 4 - Viktor Yanukovych begins his term as Prime Minister of Ukraine.
• August 5 - The Republic of China (Taiwan) severs diplomatic relations with Chad reducing the number of countries maintaining official relations with it to 24. The ROC foreign ministry cited Chad's intention to establish relations with the People's Republic of China as the reason.
• August 6 - The Déby administration of Chad establishes official relations with the People's Republic of China. Chad had recognized the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 1997-2006. Chadian diplomats cited the prospects of greater financial investments and the PRC status in the United Nations Security Council as the principal factors motivating the diplomatic shift.
• August 9 - A partial recount of votes in the disputed 2006 Mexico presidential election, which was held on July 2, begins amid escalating protests against alleged electoral irregularities in the close election.
• August 10 - A major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States is disrupted by Scotland Yard.
• August 14 - The 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict cease fire goes into effect.
• August 28 - Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal rules unanimously that results in contested polling stations only marginally affected the lead of Felipe Calderón of the ruling National Action Party over Andrés Manuel López Obrador in July's disputed presidential election.

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September

• September 17 - The Alliance for Sweden achieves a majority victory in the Swedish general election, 2006.
• September 19 - Thaksin Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand, is deposed in a coup staged by the Royal Thai Army.
• September 26 - Shinzō Abe is elected as new Prime Minister of Japan by the Diet of Japan, succeeding Junichiro Koizumi.
• September 29 - US Representative Mark Foley (R-FL) resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced.

September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... Alliance for Sweden is a political alliance in Sweden. ... A general election was held in Sweden on September 17, 2006 to elect members to the Riksdag. ... September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ... Wikinews has news related to: Thai PM Shinawatra ousted by coup   (Thai: , IPA: ; born July 26, 1949 in Chiang Mai, Thailand with family roots in Meizhou, Guangdong, China), Thai businessman and politician, is the deposed Prime Minister of Thailand and the former leader of the populist Thai Rak Thai party. ... A coup détat, or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, usually done by a small group that just replaces the top power figures. ... Royal Thai army soldier with an M16A2 rifle during maneuvers in 2000 The Royal Thai Army is the army of Thailand. ... September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Shinzō Abe , pronounced ʃinzoː abe, born September 21, 1954) is the current Prime Minister of Japan, elected by a special session of the National Diet on September 26, 2006. ... The Prime Minister of Japan (内閣総理大臣 Naikaku sōri daijin) is the usual English-language term used for the head of government of Japan, although the literal translation of the Japanese name for the office is Prime Minister of the Cabinet. ... This article is about the Japanese legislature. ... Junichiro Koizumi , born January 8, 1942) is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. ... September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Seal of the House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives (or simply the House) is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress, the other being the Senate. ... Mark Adam Foley (born September 8, 1954) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 until 2006, representing the 16th District of Florida. ...

October

• October 9 - North Korea claims to have successfully conducted its first ever nuclear test.
• October 15 - The UN agrees to sanction North Korea over nuclear testing issue.
• October 15 - Chief Justice of Japan Akira Machida retires after turning the age of 70.
• October 29 - Luis Inácio Lula da Silva is re-elected President of Brazil.
• October 30 - Former Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet is placed under house arrest for crimes committed at the Villa Grimaldi detention centre where thousands were tortured between 1974 and 1977.

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November

• Former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging, along with two of his senior allies. He is also found guilty of crimes against humanity.
• November 7 - The Republican Party suffers losses in the United States midterm elections. They lose control of the House of Representatives and the Senate to the Democrats. Nancy Pelosi becomes first female Speaker of the House being the closest a female has been in sucession of the president.
• November 8 - Donald Rumsfield resigns from his post as Secretary of Defense. Bob Gates is named his successor.
• November 12 - Gerald Ford surpasses Ronald Reagan as the longest lived U.S. President.

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December

• December 1 - Felipe Calderón will be sworn in as the 73rd President of Mexico by the congress in Mexico.
• December 3 - 2006 presidential electionsscheduled to take place in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

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Deaths

(Partial List of Politicans who died in 2006) 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• January 3 - Sir William Skate,former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, stroke^{[citation needed]}
• January 20 - Andrei Iordan, former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan
• January 21 - Ibrahim Rugova, president of Kosovo, lung cancer
• January 25 - Sudharmono, vice president of Indonesia from 1988 - 1993
• January 27 - Johannes Rau, president of Germany from 1999 - 2004
• February 1 - Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr., American politician, governor of Arizona 1965-1967.
• February 15 - Sun Yun-suan, former Premier of Republic of China, myocardial infarction
• February 22 - Said Mohamed Djohar, former President of Comoros
• March 11 - Slobodan Milošević, former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
• March 14 - Lennart Meri, former President of Estonia
• March 15 - George Rallis, former Prime Minister of Greece
• March 28 - Caspar Weinberger, former U.S. Secretary of Defense & Sectretary of Health
• April 9 - Georges Rawiri, president of the Gabon senate
• April 23 - Ghafar Baba, Malaysian former Deputy Prime Minister
• April 27 - Alexander Buel Trowbridge, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
• May 12 - Hussein Maziq, former prime minister & foreign minister of Libya
• May 15 - Chic Hecht, former senator of Nevada
• May 27 - Romeo Lucas García, former President of Guatemala
• June 8 - Sir Peter Smithers, member of the British Parliament
• June 10 - Qadi Abdul Karim Abdullah Al-Arashi, former President of North Yemen.
• June 27 - J. Robert Elliott, United States Federal District Judge

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See also

• Elections in 2006
• Electoral calendar 2006
• list of years in politics