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| | | Ehud Olmert, Sharon's successor as leader of Kadima, becomes Israel's prime minister at the head of a coalition government | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Latin Americans in the USA stage the Great American Boycott, a day of non-cooperation to demand immigration reform | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Structural work is completed on China's Three Gorges Dam, by far the largest hydroelectric dam in the world | |
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| 2006 |
| | | As the result of a referendum, Montegro declares its indpependence from Serbia | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Hamas militants take hostage an Israeli corporal, provoking a new Israeli military campaign against Gaza | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Warren Buffett pledges a multi-billion dollar grant to the Bill & Melina Gates Foundation, spread over the next 20 years | |
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| 2006 |
| | | The US Supreme Court rules that the military courts set up to try detainees in Guantanamo Bay are illegal | |
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| 2006 |
| | | North Korea test-fires seven missiles, of varying ranges and with varying success | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Yoweri Museveni wins his third term as president of Uganda, in an election result provoking riots by opposition supporters | |
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| 2006 |
| | | A series of coordinated terrorist bombs explode on trains during the crowded evening rush hour in Mumbai (Bombay) | |
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