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43 unusual facts about 2006


20 Years of Weird: Flaming Lips 1986–2006

20 Years of Weird: Flaming Lips 1986–2006 is an updated version of the free compilation CD given away at the SXSW Film premier of the The Flaming Lips documentary "The Fearless Freaks", a film by Bradley Beesley.

Bob Royall

Many people in the business community in South Carolina tried to pressure Royall to run for Governor in 2006.

C. S. Magaoay

In 2006, Magaoay started Rubber Duck Media a New Media Public Relations and Marketing company.

California lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2006

Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi, the Democratic nominee, narrowly defeated the Republican nominee, State Senator Tom McClintock, for the office previously held by Democrat Cruz Bustamante, who was term-limited and ran for Insurance Commissioner.

Chilean presidential election, 2005–2006

Two candidates withdrew before the survey and gave their support to Hirsch: Tomás Moulian (Communist) and Manuel Jacques (Christian Left).

Comedy Central's Indecision 2000

#"Indecision/Indécision 2006" for the 2006 Canadian general election.

DeKalb County, Missouri

McCaskill was elected in 2006 by a narrow margin statewide, but DeKalb County supported her opponent, incumbent Jim Talent.

Duško Ivanović

He also took part in Montenegrin independence campaign (pro-independent side).

Eastleigh by-election, 2013

The Liberal Democrats' win was their first in a by-election since Dunfermline and West Fife seven years earlier.

Extreme points of Serbia and Montenegro

Serbia and Montenegro split in 2006 to form two separate countries.

Fernando Castro Trenti

He secured a seat in the senate during the 2006 congressional elections as the first minority senator; hence he would have served during the LX and the LXI Legislatures (2006–2012) he is considered the most productive senator in the history of Baja California .

František Lipka

In 2006 Lipka became the Referendum Commission President (Chairman of the Electoral Commission) for the upcoming Montenegrin Independence Referendum and was in charge of supervision over the course of the referendum, its results and a safeguard of the adherence to correct and valid election processes.

Ghislaine Dupont

In 2006, she was expelled by the Kinshasa government of Kabila between the first and second round of the presidential election.

Harrison County, Missouri

McCaskill was elected in 2006 by a narrow margin statewide, but Harrison County supported her opponent, incumbent Jim Talent.

Ilana Sod

Back in May and June 2006, she was the only reporter allowing the young audience to ask questions directly to all five Mexican presidential candidates, exactly one month before of the general election in Mexico, July 2.

Isaura Navarro

Navarro became involved in controversy following an official trip to Peru when she was alleged to have asked for an official car for her partner who was an international observer for the upcoming electoral process, as well as allowing him to participate in official dinners without the knowledge of the Spanish foreign ministry.

Mac Christensen

In 2006, Christensen co-chaired Orrin Hatch's Senate re-election campaign with Stan Parish.

Mary Starrett

Mary Starrett was the Constitution Party of Oregon nominee in the 2006 Oregon gubernatorial election.

Mike Erickson

In 2006, Erickson was the Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives seat in Oregon's 5th congressional district against incumbent Democrat Darlene Hooley, who defeated Erickson.

Mike Youle

Youle is noted for introducing the concept of mass pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV to a wider audience at the XVIth International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada in 2006.

Mordechai Eliyahu

In March 2006, three days before the 2006 Israeli legislative election, Eliyahu stated that it was forbidden to vote for any Israeli political party that had backed the disengagement, and stressed that anyone who voted for Kadima was "assisting sinners".

Mule Suttles

Best known for his power hitting, Suttles was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.

Nigel Smart

After his retirement from football, Smart was an unsuccessful candidate for the Liberal Party for the electoral district of Norwood in the 2006 South Australian state election.

Novak Kilibarda

On the 2006 independence referendum he was a proponent of Montenegrin bloc for independence, ending with victory.

Ontario March of Dimes

During the 2006 Canadian federal election, 23-year old Ontario March of Dimes intern Warren Rupnarain, a person with cerebral palsy who uses a wheelchair, visited the campaign offices of the three major political parties in all 22 Toronto ridings to raise awareness of disability issues.

Paolo Borsellino

His sister Rita ran as centre-left presidential candidate in the 2006 regional election, after having won the regional primary election, but lost to incumbent Salvatore Cuffaro, who was later sentenced to seven years in prison for collusion with the Mafia.

Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district

In the 2006 election, Murtha was re-elected with 61% of the vote.

Pittsburgh Power

His father Lance, as well as former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Lynn Swann, an NFL Hall-of-Famer and Republican 2006 gubernatorial nominee, is also part of the team's ownership group.

Recognition of same-sex unions in Chile

During January 2006's presidential campaign both President Michelle Bachelet and center-right candidate Sebastián Piñera voiced their support for civil unions, but the Catholic Church and many members of Congress were opposed.

Repubblica Radio TV

Born on April 10, 2006, during the Italian general election, broadcast news and weather bulletins and political programs from 10.00 AM to 12.00 AM and repeats from 9.00 PM to 12.00 PM, Monday to Friday.

Roberto Campa

Roberto Rafael Campa Cifrián (b. January 11, 1957 in Mexico City) is a Mexican lawyer and politician who was the New Alliance presidential candidate in the 2006 elections.

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On January 8, 2006 the New Alliance party elected Campa Cifrián as its presidential candidate for the 2006 election.

Róger Calero

In 2006, Róger Calero appeared on the ballot in New York as the Socialist Workers Party candidate for US Senate.

Since We Met: The Best of 1996–2006

There are no new songs on the album, but her cover of The Beatles' "In My Life", previously only available on the Providence soundtrack, is included as a bonus track.

Socialist Party of New Jersey

:*2006: Greg Pason- 2,490 votes (0.11%)

Stephen Bradberry

He also argued that the 2006 mayoral election, already postponed due to Katrina, should be further delayed to allow time for more of the city's residents to return.

Tommy Irvin

He was elected to his 10th and final four-year term in November 2006.

United States District Court for the District of New Mexico

United States Attorney David Iglesias headed this office until his controversial dismissal following the 2006 midterm elections.

United States House of Representatives elections in California, 2006

The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 2006 were elections for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred along with congressional elections nationwide and state elections on November 7, 2006.

United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, 2006

The 2006 congressional elections in Indiana were elections for Indiana's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred along with congressional elections nationwide on November 7, 2006.

United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, 2006

The United States House of Representative elections of 2006 in North Carolina were held on 7 November 2006 as part of the biennial election to the United States House of Representatives.

Vermont elections, 2006

Elections included the gubernatorial, all state offices, including all state senators and representatives, the federal Congress and the US senate.

Wind Power Production Incentive

The Canadian WPPI Program started in 2002 and ended on 31 March, 2007 after a change of government.


1916 in Norway

17 August - Eivind Skabo, sprint canoer and Olympic bronze medallist (died 2006)

500th Air Expeditionary Group

Its last known assignment was at Christchurch, New Zealand, where it was activated for the summer 2005-2006 season.

73079 Davidbaltimore

The asteroid was named after David Baltimore (b. 1938), renowned for his Nobel Prize-winning biological research and for his vision and leadership as the seventh president of the California Institute of Technology (1997–2006).

Akira Kikuchi

Due to the suspension length, Kikuchi fought only once more in 2006.

Alicia Leigh Willis

From December 2001 to February 2006, Willis played Courtney Matthews on the ABC soap opera, General Hospital.

Audrey De Montigny

Audrey de Montigny had her first international success "Here We Are" (2006) in collaboration with musician Steve Barakatt.

Beacon Fell, Lancashire

The fell features a number of sculptures by local artist Thompson Dagnall, including Black Tiger and Kissing Seat (2006), Walking Snake (1998), Hanging Bat (1998), Spruced up Heron (1996) and Orme Sight (1996).

Berlaymont building

The building briefly appeared in the 2006 film, "Children of Men", shown along with buildings in other cities that had been subject to attacks.

Bow High School

Student Teal Van Dyck won second place in the national Poetry Out Loud in 2006, earning a $10,000 scholarship.

Breakfast with the Beatles

Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Pete Best, Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono have all been guests on the longest-running version of the show (30 years) in Los Angeles, which was dropped in 2006 by KLSX-FM, but picked up by 95.5 KLOS in November 2006.

Breathing Room

Kathy Justice of Indy Week called it "low on camp and high on suspense", with a plot that resembles the 2006 French cult film 13 Tzameti.

Children 18:3

The band released the EP in 2006 and sent a copy to Tooth & Nail Records CEO Brandon Ebel.

Corey Lynch

Lynch played collegiate ball at Appalachian State University from 2003 to 2007, helping his Mountaineers win 3 back-to-back national championships in 2005, 2006 and 2007 .

Dominique Fidanza

In 2006, she moved to France to participate at the French reality television show Star Academy France and she arrived at the end of the show but she lost against Cyril Cinélu.

Edgar Chías

He has written a number of plays including De insomnio y media noche, which was performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2006 under the title On Insomnia and Midnight (English translation by David Johnston).

Erol Iba

Despite his poor performance, Erol was signed by Benny Dollo, currently the coach of Indonesian football team, who was at that time, the coach of Arema Malang, in which Erol spent three years from 2003–2006.

Exercise Pitch Black

Although the 2000, 2004 and 2006 exercises were held in the Northern Territory, the 2002 exercise was scaled down and held at RAAF Bases Amberley and Williamtown, on the Australian east coast.

Experimental luthier

In 2006 Yuri Landman built his Moodswinger for the band Liars and afterwards made a large serie of alternate string instruments like the Moonlander for Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, the Springtime for Blood Red Shoes and the Tafelberg drum guitar for The Dodos and others.

Gas Exporting Countries Forum

In May 2006 Gazprom deputy chairman Alexander Medvedev threatened that Russia would create "an alliance of gas suppliers that will be more influential than OPEC" if Russia did not get its way in energy negotiations with Europe.

Geno Adamia

The Georgian society, especially the IDPs from Abkhazia, marked the 70th anniversary of his birth on March 8, 2006.

Geraint Wyn Davies

On 13 June 2006 Davies became an American citizen, having been sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Gerry, New York

In 2006 the Gerry Fire Dept. sponsored their 62nd PRCA Rodeo.

Henry Hewes

Henry Hewes (April 9, 1917 – July 18, 2006) was the drama critic for the Saturday Review weekly literary magazine from 1955 to 1979.

International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference

The location of the conference switched between North America and Europe until 2006 when the venue was located in Cairns, Australia.

J. Barry Griswell

He has been inducted into the Iowa Business Hall of Fame, is a recipient of the United Way of Central Iowa Alexis de Tocqueville Society award, a 2004 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, a 2004 recipient of the Central Iowa Philanthropic Award for Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser, and a 2006 recipient of the Business Committee for the Arts Leadership Award as well as a 2008 recipient of the American for the Arts Corporate Citizenship in the Arts Award.

Jessica Schultz

For the 2006 U.S. World Team Trials in March, Schultz was named skip, or captain, of Team USA (the team's regular skip, Cassie Johnson, did not play in the tournament), and the team finished fourth under her direction.

Joel Casique

He has exhibited his work in galleries and museums in Venezuela, the United States, and Aruba; he has also participated in national and international fairs, including the sixteenth and seventeenth Ferias Iberoamericanas de Arte (FIA) in Caracas; the 2007 Latin American Art Fair in Miami; and the 2006 Feria Internacional de Arte de Bogotá (ARTBO) in Bogotá, Colombia.

Kevin Perkins

Kevin Perkins is the executive director of the Canadian not-for-profit organization Farm Radio International since May 2006.

Laurel Hill Coláiste

It recently came seventh in the overall Irish national school league table, published in the Irish edition of The Sunday Times (5 November 2006), highlighting the high percentage of pupils who go on to university level.

Live: Bad Kitty Board Mix

Live: Bad Kitty Board Mix is a 2006 live album by Sophie B. Hawkins recorded at The Triple Door (Seattle, USA) and The Basement (Sydney, Australia).

Lydia Leonard

On television she had an ongoing role in 1950s-set detective series Jericho starring Robert Lindsay, and appeared in True True Lie (2006) and The Long Walk to Finchley (2008), along with a cameo in Rome (2006, "The Stolen Eagle"), and as a nurse in the BBC's Casualty 1909.

M. Athalie Range

Athalie Range (Born Mary Athalie Wilkinson on November 7, 1915 in Key West, Florida- November 14, 2006 in Miami, Florida) was a civil rights activist and politician who was the first African-American to serve on the Miami, Florida City Commission, and the first African-American since Reconstruction and the first woman to head a Florida state agency, the Department of Community Affairs.

Newsarama

Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada's column "Joe Fridays" (renamed "New Joe Fridays" in 2006 as a joke regarding Marvel's penchant for relaunching titles with the prefix "new") appeared weekly until 2008, when the column moved to MySpace.

Nichola Simpson

She won Bronze at the 2nd World Cup leg in San Salvador in 2006, which was Great Britain's first Archery World Cup medal.

Osmani García

In early 2006 he joined the group Paulo FG and Elite and also performed in the Festival Internacional de Cali in Colombia, sharing the stage with Maelo Ruíz.

Paul Barry

In 2006, Barry released a biography on Australian cricketer Shane Warne, called Spun Out.

Philip Pan

Other topics covered by his book include China's shourong detention system, investigative journalism in China, and the publication and reception of An Investigation of China's Peasantry, by Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, which was later released as Will the Boat Sink the Water (2006) in its English translation.

Russ Hiebert

On February 8, 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Hiebert parliamentary secretary to the Minister of National Defence, Gordon O'Connor.

Seasons of Love

The Philippine Idol Top 6 performed the song as the opening number to the show's movie/musical themed performance night on November 19, 2006.

Shanghai People's Commune

MacFarquhar, R and Schoenhals, M. Mao's Last Revolution (Belknap Harvard, 2006)

Stephen Revere

Revere has appeared on a number of Korean TV shows, including English Conversation (EBS, 2001–2003) and The World Is Wide (세상은 넓다, KBS1 2006-2007).

Tamy Ben-Tor

Graduating from Columbia University's MFA Program in 2006, she lives and works in New York and shows with Zach Feuer Gallery.

Ten-Day War

However, the incident sparked renewed public debate after the footage was shown on Serbian TV station B92 in 2006, with many claiming that the soldiers were shot and killed by Slovenian TO troops and that Slovenia is trying to cover up the affair.

The Devil's Backbone

The response was overwhelmingly positive, though it did not receive the critical success that Pan's Labyrinth would in 2006.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis

The Kevin Kline Awards, named after Kevin Kline, an established stage and screen actor and native of St. Louis, began in 2006, to recognize outstanding achievement in professional theatre in the Greater St. Louis area.

U.S. Route 90

The 1929 vintage bridge carrying Highway 90 over Chef Menteur Pass was repaired and opened to traffic on August 11, 2006 after it was closed after the storm.

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

In September 2006 the Steve Mills Stem Cell Laboratory, which had been established by a charity created by Southampton F.C. footballer Steve Mills, moved from the Royal South Hampshire Hospital to a new location at Southampton General Hospital, and was officially opened on 27 September 2006 by Steve's widow Jo and former Southampton footballer and manager, Alan Ball.

Victoria Newton

However, it was revealed that the 2006 winners of the "Bizarre" readers' poll awards - who included Justin Timberlake and Madonna - were presented with their awards before readers had the opportunity to vote.

WRSN

WKSL, a radio station (93.9 FM) licensed to serve Cary, North Carolina, United States, which held the call sign WRSN from 1996 to 2006

Zhang Jingna

She was active in the team for six years, notable achievements include breaking a record in the 10m Air Rifle event at the Commonwealth Shooting Championships 2005 in Melbourne, and a bronze in the same event at the Commonwealth Games in 2006, awarding her the title of Sports Girl of the Year for 2006 by the Singapore National Olympic Council.