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| | | 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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| 2006 |
| | | Hezbollah takes two Israeli soldiers hostage, provoking the renewal of air and rocket warfare on the Israel-Lebanon border | |
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| 2006 |
| | | A UN-sponsored cease-fire comes into effect in the conflict between Israeli and Hezbollah forces in south Lebanon | |
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| 2006 |
| | | The International Astronomical Union demotes Pluto to the new category of 'dwarf planet' | |
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| 2006 |
| | | A military coup in Thailand removes the prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, from office | |
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| 2006 |
| | | A milk-truck driver opens fire on children in an Amish school in Pennsylvania, killing five girls and wounding others | |
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| 2006 |
| | | North Korea announces that it has tested a nuclear weapon | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Google pays $1.65 billion for the website YouTube, launched less than two years previously | |
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| 2006 |
| | | The United States Census Bureau announces that the US population has reached 300 million | |
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| 2006 |
| | | An Iraqi court sentences former dictator Saddam Hussein and two of his senior colleagues to death by hanging | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Daniel Ortega wins the Nicaraguan presidential election, returning to the office after 16 years | |
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| 2006 |
| | | The Republicans lose control of both houses of the US Congress in an electoral backlash against the Iraq War | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Patriarch Christodoulos has talks with Pope Benedict XVI, in the first official visit to the Vatican by the head of the Greek Orthodox church | |
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| 2006 |
| | | The prime minister, Tony Blair, is questioned by police in Britain's 'cash for honours' enquiry | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is hanged in Baghdad, a month after being convicted of a few of his crimes | |
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| 2007 |
| | | South Korea's Ban Ki-moon becomes the UN secretary-general, following the retirement of Kofi Annan | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union, bringing the number of member states to twenty-seven | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Democrat Nancy Pelosi is elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives, becoming the first woman to hold the post | |
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| 2007 |
| | | China carries out a successful test of a ground-based missile that can destroy satellites in orbit | |
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| 2007 |
| | | The International Red Cross and Red Crescent adopt the Red Crystal for use where a non-religious emblem is preferred | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Democratic US Senator Hillary Clinton launches her 2008 presidential bid, posting the message 'I'm in' on her website | |
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| 2007 |
| | | North Korea agrees to begin shutting down its nuclear facilities in return for an ongoing programme of fuel aid | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly bring the same result as in 2003, with extremist rivals DUP and Sinn Fein the dominant parties | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Morgan Tsvangirai is arrested on his way to a prayer rally in Harare, and is severely beaten and tortured in police custody | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Long-term enemies Ian Paisley (DUP) and Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein) agree to share power in a reconvened Northern Ireland Assembly | |
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