Editing 2006

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== Events ==
*January 4 - [[Ariel Sharon]], Prime Minister of Israel, suffers a stroke that leaves him in a permanent comatose state. [[Ehud Olmert]] is named acting prime minister.
*January 25 - [[Hamas]] wins the Palestinian legislative election, taking 74 out of 132 seats.
*Janaury 30 - [[Jennifer San Marco|Goleta postal facility shootings]]
*February 22 - Beginning of the Iraqi Civil War.
*March 17 - [[Tsui Po-ko]] is killed in a police ambush.
*March 29 - [[Charles Taylor]] is captured while trying to sneak into Cameroon. He is subsequently extradited to Sierra Leone.
*April 28 - [[Hope Rippey]] is released from prison.
*June 6 - The [[Islamic Courts Union]] is founded to serve a rival administration to the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia.
*June 7 -  [[Al-Qaeda]] in Iraq leader [[Abu Musab al-Zarqawi]] is killed near Baqubah while attending a meeting in an isolated safehouse when two United States Air Force F-16 jets dropped guided bombs on the safe-house, killing him and five other people.
*July 14 - Peace talks between Uganda and the [[Lord's Resistance Army]] begin at a summit in Juba, South Sudan.
*July 28 - [[Alan García]] is elected President of Peru for the second time.
*August 5 - The [[United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia]] are dissolved.
*September - U.S. Congressman [[Mark Foley]] is embroiled in a scandal involving [[Pederasty|inappropriate text messages sent to teenage boys]].
*September 13 - [[Kimveer Gill|Dawson College shooting]]
*September 22 - [[Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik|Murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart]]
*October 2 - [[Charles Carl Roberts|West Nickel Mines School shooting]]
*November 20 - [[Sebastian Bosse|Emsdetten school shooting]]
*December 3 - [[Frank Bainimarama]] leads a successful coup and manages to seize power in Fiji.
*December 11 - The [[International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust]] is held in Tehran, Iran.
*December 21 - [[Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow]] is named President of Turkmenistan following the death of [[Saparmurat Niyazov]].
*December 30 - [[Saddam Hussein]] is found guilty of [[genocide]] and mass [[murder]] and is hanged by the Iraqi Special Tribunal. [[Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri]], his former closest advisor, is subsequently named the new Regional Secretary of the Iraqi [[Ba'ath Party]].

== Births ==
===Villain births===
*April 28 - [[Ethan Crumbley]] 
*November 17 - [[Aiden Fucci]] 
=== Victim births ===
* February 22 - Charlotte Bacon
*March 1 - Peter Connelly
*March 8 - Dylan Hockney 
*March 20 - Cris and Cru Kahui
*March 22 - James Mattioli 
*April 4 - Ana Marquez-Greene 
*May 6 - Jack Pinto
*May 10 - Jessica Rekos 
*May 12 - Emilie Parker 
*June 8 - Catherine Hubbard
*June 30 - Jesse Lewis
*July 3 - Allison Wyatt
*July 6 - Teghan Skiba 
*July 10 - Melanie Hsu  
*July 18 - Olivia Engel 
*July 24 - Ryan Bennett  
*August 12 - Benjamin and Christen Lupoe
*August 23 - Victoria Martens 
*September 9 - Caroline Previdi  
*September 12 - Benjamin Wheeler  
*October 5 - Madyson Middleton
*October 17 - Avielle Richman  
*November 14 - Jersey Bridgeman 
*November 20 - Noah Pozner

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
*January 17 - [[Clarence Ray Allen]]
*January 20 - [[David Maust]]
*January 23 - [[Samuel Koster]]
*January 30 - [[Jennifer San Marco]]
*March 5 - [[Richard Kuklinski]]
*March 11 - [[Slobodan Milošević]]
*March 17 - [[Tsui Po-ko]]
*March 25 - [[Kyle Aaron Huff]]
*March 28 - [[Jerry Brudos]]
*May 15 - [[Bobby Jack Fowler]]
*June 7 - [[Abu Musab al-Zarqawi]]
*June 27 - [[Ángel Maturino Reséndiz]]
*July 7 - [[Gilbert Paul Jordan]]
*July 10 - [[Shamil Basayev]]
*July 21 - [[Ta Mok]]
*August 16 - [[Alfredo Stroessner]]
*September 13 - [[Kimveer Gill]]
*October 2 - [[Charles Carl Roberts]]
*October 25 - [[Danny Rolling]]
*October 31 - [[P.W Botha]]
*November 5 - [[Samuel Bowers]]
*November 20 - [[Sebastian Bosse]]
*December 10 - [[Augusto Pinochet]]
*December 21 - [[Saparmurat Niyazov]]
*December 30 - [[Saddam Hussein]]

=== Victim deaths ===
*March 17 - [[Tsui Po-ko|Tsang Kwok-hang]]
*May 13 - Katie McCarron
*September 13 - Anastasia De Sousa
*September 22 - Cassie Jo Stoddart
*October 2 - Naomi Ebersol , Marian Stoltzfus Fisher, Anna Mae Stoltzfus, 
*October 3 - Lena Miller and Mary Miller 
*October 17 - Megan Meier
*November 1 - Adrienne Shelly
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