2006-10-02 22:37:52 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
I tried to list here the top 10 most important events which have a long term significance.
January 1 - Russia cuts natural gas to Ukraine over a price dispute.
January 25 - Hamas wins the majority of seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections.
March 5 - Crash wins Best Picture, Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) wins Best Director, Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line) wins Best Actress, and Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) wins Best Actor during the 78th Academy Awards.
March 11 - Slobodan Milošević, former Yugoslav president, dies of a heart attack in his prison cell in The Hague, Netherlands.
March 22 - Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) declares a permanent ceasefire in their campaign for Basque independence from Spain.
May 27 - A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes central Java in Indonesia, killing more than 6,000, injuring at least 36,000 and leaving some 1.5 million people homeless.
June 3 - Montenegro declares independence after a May 21 referendum. The state union of Serbia and Montenegro is dissovled on June 5 leaving Serbia as the successor state.
June 25 - Warren Buffett donates over $30 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
July 9 - Italy wins the FIFA World Cup 2006 by beating France 5-3 on penalties. The score after regular time is 1-1.
July 12 - 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict: Israeli troops invade Lebanon in response to Hezbollah kidnapping 2 Israeli soldiers and killing 3. Hezbollah declares open war against Israel 2 days later.
2006-10-03 00:42:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mumbai Train Blast in the month of July,2006
2006-10-02 22:49:12 · answer #2 · answered by k.k s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
winter Olympics 2006?
2006-10-02 22:48:14 · answer #3 · answered by camaybar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Israeli attack on Lebanon incollaboration with Hezbollah so that UNO can come into Lebanon and serve Israeli interest
2) War on Iraq and daily fighting back of Muslims against occupying forces
3) War on Afghanistan and daily resistance from Muslims causing enromous damage to occupying forces
4) Abu Gharib Jail
5) Guantanamo Prison: The worst human rights violations
6) Killing of Aamir Cheema by German Govt and then giving it a color of suicide
7) Killing of three prisoners in Guantanmo Prison by Bush and giving it a color of suicide
2006-10-02 23:32:56 · answer #4 · answered by pathowiz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
War in Middle East- Israel and Lebanon?
2006-10-02 22:39:41 · answer #5 · answered by mitzy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just choose from this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006#Events
2006-10-02 22:42:38 · answer #6 · answered by A R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about Israel and Lebanon bombing each other - that was pretty huge....
or for recent events how about three shooting incidents in schools in the US over one week... sad very sad...
2006-10-02 22:58:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Princess Diana died
Enron went bankrupt
we went to war in Afghanistan
the countries in europe formed a group called the European Union
i pooped and it was so clean i didn't need to wipe
2006-10-02 22:40:21 · answer #8 · answered by Bo Jangles 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
isreal and lebanon war, amish school shootings, russian air plane crashes
2006-10-03 11:47:59 · answer #9 · answered by Zoe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
attack of israel to lebanon
2006-10-02 23:05:19 · answer #10 · answered by bella 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋