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2006
 
  
A series of coordinated terrorist bombs explode on trains during the crowded evening rush hour in Mumbai (Bombay)     
2006
 
   
Hezbollah takes two Israeli soldiers hostage, provoking the renewal of air and rocket warfare on the Israel-Lebanon border      
2006
 
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The Pagoda in Kew Gardens is reopened to the public, providing a wonderful view for those willing to pay extra and climb the 253 steps to the top. See in Google maps   
2006
 
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After extensive restoration, what is now called Kew Palace (previously the Dutch House) is opened again to the public. See in Google maps   
2006
 
   
A UN-sponsored cease-fire comes into effect in the conflict between Israeli and Hezbollah forces in south Lebanon      
2006
 
    
The International Astronomical Union demotes Pluto to the new category of 'dwarf planet'       
2006
 
 
Martin Scorsese directs Leonardo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson in a crime thriller, The Departed    
2006
 
    
A team from the University of Tübingen find a tiny figurine of a mammoth, at that time the earliest known piece of European figurative sculpture       
Figurine of a mammoth, carved from mammoth ivory
University of Tubingen

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2006
 
   
A military coup in Thailand removes the prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, from office      
2006
 
    
A milk-truck driver opens fire on children in an Amish school in Pennsylvania, killing five girls and wounding others