WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 2006
Find out what all happened July to December 2006

The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years. (30. July 2006)

Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed. (30. December 2006)

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet. (24. August 2006)

Twitter is launched, becoming one of the largest social media platforms in the world. (15. July 2006)

The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared. (19. September 2006)

Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'a Muslims in 1982. (5. November 2006)

Al Jazeera English launches worldwide. (15. November 2006)

Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre and what Israel considers to be an attempt to stop rockets' being fired, from Lebanon, at Israeli civilian targets. (30. July 2006)

The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush, who announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will receive the Medal of Honor. (10. November 2006)

The funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied. (28. October 2006)

Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 total people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis. (29. September 2006)

The college football brawl between University of Miami and Florida International University leads to suspensions of 31 players of both teams. (14. October 2006)

At least 21 suspected terrorists were arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests were made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation. (9. August 2006)

The Canadian House of Commons approves a motion tabled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Québécois as a nation within Canada. (27. November 2006)

Mumbai train bombings: 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India. (11. July 2006)

The oil tanker M/T Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill. (11. August 2006)

A group of ferocious activists of Bangladesh Awami League attacked one of their rival political party meeting in Dhaka with oars and sculls and killed their 14 activists. (28. October 2006)

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army. (11. November 2006)

The Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths. (30. December 2006)

North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly failed in mid-air over the Sea of Japan. (5. July 2006)