File talk:Barney Can You Sing That Song? (2005)

2006 was designated as:
 * International Year of Deserts and Desertification
 * International Asperger's Year

January

 * January 1 – Russia cuts the shipment of natural gas to Ukraine over a price dispute.
 * January 12 – A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 pilgrims.
 * January 15 – NASA's Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet.
 * January 19 – NASA launches the first space mission to Pluto as a rocket hurls the New Horizons spacecraft on a nine-year journey.
 * January 25 – The Walt Disney Company buys Pixar Animation Studios from Lucasfilm Ltd. for $7.4 billion and now Pixar is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Pictures.

February

 * February 3 – Egyptian passenger ferry, MS al-Salam Boccaccio 98, sinks in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia, killing over 1,000 people.
 * February 10–26 – The 2006 Winter Olympics are held in Turin, Italy.
 * February 17 – A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines killing an estimated 1,126 people.

March

 * March 9 – NASA's Cassini–Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a liquid substance shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water.
 * March 10 – NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters orbit around Mars.
 * March 15 – The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the United Nations Human Rights Council.
 * March 28 – A scramjet jet engine, HyShot III, designed to fly at seven times the speed of sound, is successfully tested at Woomera, South Australia.

April

 * April 11
 * The European Space Agency's Venus Express spaceprobe enters Venus' orbit.
 * President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirms that Iran has successfully produced a few grams of low-grade enriched uranium.
 * April 20 – Iran announces a deal with Russia, involving a joint uranium enrichment firm on Russian soil; nine days later Iran announces that it will not move all activity to Russia, thus leading to a de facto termination of the deal.

May

 * May 17 – The Human Genome Project publishes the last chromosome sequence, in Nature.
 * May 27 – The 6.4 Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.

June

 * June 3 – Montenegro declares independence after a May 21 referendum. Two days later, the republic of Serbia and Montenegro formed in 2003 collapses, leaving Serbia as the successor country.
 * June 9 – July 9 – The 2006 FIFA World Cup takes place in Germany; which is won by Italy.
 * June 28
 * Israel launches an offensive in the Gaza Strip in response to rocketfire by Hamas into Israeli territory.
 * The United States Armed Forces withdraws its forces in Iceland, thereby disbanding the Iceland Defense Force.

July

 * July 1 – The Qinghai–Tibet railway launches a trial operation, making Tibet the last province-level entity of China to have a conventional railway.
 * July 6 – The Nathu La pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
 * July 11 – A series of seven bomb blasts hits the city of Mumbai, India, killing more than 200 people.
 * July 12 – Israeli troops invade Lebanon in response to Hezbollah kidnapping two Israeli soldiers and killing three others. Hezbollah declares open war against Israel two days later.

August

 * August 22 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border in Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
 * August 24 – The International Astronomical Union defines 'planet' at its 26th General Assembly, demoting Pluto to the status of dwarf planet more than 70 years after its discovery.

September

 * September 19 – The Royal Thai Army overthrows the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a coup d'état.
 * September 29 – Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides with a business jet over the Amazon rainforest, killing all 154 on board the former.

October

 * October 6 – Fredrik Reinfeldt replaces Göran Persson as Prime Minister of Sweden.
 * October 9 – North Korea claims to have conducted its first-ever nuclear test.
 * October 13 – South Korean Ban Ki-moon is elected as the new Secretary-General of the United Nations, succeeding Kofi Annan.

November

 * November 2 – No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock becomes the most expensive painting after it is sold privately for $140 million.
 * November 5 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging by the Iraqi Special Tribunal. He is later executed for crimes against humanity on December 30.
 * November 12 – The breakaway state of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia.
 * November 23 – A series of car bombs and mortar attacks in Sadr City, Baghdad, kills at least 215 people and injure 257 other people.

December

 * December 5 – The military seizes power in Fiji, in a coup d'état led by Commodore Frank Bainimarama.
 * December 11 – Felipe Calderón sends the Mexican military to combat the drug cartels and put down the violence in the state of Michoacán, initiating the Mexican Drug War.
 * December 24 – Ethiopia admits its troops have intervened in Somalia.
 * December 26 – An oil pipeline explodes in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, killing at least 200 people.
 * December 29 – UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.

Births



 * January 27 – Kim Su-an, South Korean actress
 * March 12 – Lee Re, South Korean child actress
 * June 23 – Lee Chae-mi, South Korean actress
 * June 25 – Mckenna Grace, American actress
 * July 25 – Konomi Watanabe, Japanese actress
 * September 6 – Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese prince
 * October 5 – Jacob Tremblay, Canadian actor
 * November 16 – Mason Ramsey, American singer

January

 * January 3 – Bill Skate, 5th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1953)
 * January 4 – Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 3rd Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1943)
 * January 6 – Lou Rawls, African-American singer (b. 1933)
 * January 7 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer, explorer and author (b. 1912)
 * January 14 – Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
 * January 15 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, 13th Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
 * January 19
 * Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
 * Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
 * January 21 – Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovar writer, scholar and political leader (b. 1944)
 * January 24 – Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
 * January 25 – Sudharmono, 5th Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1926)
 * January 27 – Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931)
 * January 30 – Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist (b. 1927)

February

 * February 4 – Betty Friedan, American feminist, activist, and writer (b. 1921)
 * February 8 – Akira Ifukube, Japanese classical music/film composer (b. 1914)
 * February 10 – J Dilla, American music producer (b. 1974)
 * February 12 – Peter Benchley, American writer (b. 1940)
 * February 13 – P. F. Strawson, English philosopher (b. 1919)
 * February 15 – Sun Yun-suan, 10th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1913)
 * February 18 – Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa, 5th Prime Minister of Sudan (b. 1919)
 * February 21 – Mirko Marjanović, 63rd Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1937)
 * February 22 – Said Mohamed Djohar, 2-Time President of the Comoros (b. 1918)
 * February 23 – Telmo Zarra, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
 * February 24
 * Don Knotts, American actor and comedian (b. 1924)
 * Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)
 * February 28 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)

March

 * March 1
 * Harry Browne, American writer and politician (b. 1933)
 * Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
 * March 6 – Dana Reeve, American actress (b. 1961)
 * March 7 – Gordon Parks, American photographer (b. 1912)
 * March 9 – John Profumo, British politician (b. 1915)
 * March 11 – Slobodan Milošević, 3rd President of Serbia (b. 1941)
 * March 13
 * Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
 * Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
 * March 14 – Lennart Meri, 2nd President of Estonia (b. 1929)
 * March 15 – Georgios Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
 * March 17 – Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (b. 1955)
 * March 25
 * Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
 * Richard Fleischer, American film director (b. 1916)
 * Buck Owens, American, singer, bandleader, and TV host (b. 1929)
 * March 27 – Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
 * March 28 – Caspar Weinberger, 15th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)

April

 * April 5 – Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941)
 * April 8 – Gerard Reve, Dutch author (b. 1923)
 * April 11 – Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
 * April 21 – Telê Santana, Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1931)
 * April 23 – Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921)
 * April 24 – Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940)
 * April 25 – Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian writer and activist (b. 1916)
 * April 29 – John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908)

May

 * May 3 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921)
 * May 6 – Shigeru Kayano, Japanese activist (b. 1926)
 * May 11 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
 * May 12 – Hussein Maziq, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1918)
 * May 13 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
 * May 14 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
 * May 22 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945)
 * May 23 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921)
 * May 24 – Eric Bedser, English cricketer (b. 1918)
 * May 25 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer and songwriter (b. 1941)
 * May 26 – Édouard Michelin, French businessman (b. 1963)
 * May 30 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (b. 1926)
 * May 31 – Raymond Davis Jr., American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)

June

 * June 1 – Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer (b. 1946)
 * June 6 – Billy Preston, American artist and musician (b. 1946)
 * June 7 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant (b. 1966)
 * June 12 – György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
 * June 13 – Charles Haughey, 7th Taoisearch of Ireland (b. 1925)
 * June 17 – Bussunda, Brazilian comedian (b. 1962)
 * June 23 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b. 1923)

July

 * July 1 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
 * July 5
 * Gert Fredriksson, Swedish kayaker (b. 1919)
 * Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942)
 * July 7
 * Syd Barrett, English singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1946)
 * Elias Hrawi, 9th President of Lebanon (b. 1925)
 * July 8 – June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
 * July 10 – Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
 * July 13 – Red Buttons, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)
 * July 17 – Mickey Spillane, American writer (b. 1918)
 * July 19 – Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
 * July 20 – Ted Grant, British politician (b. 1913)
 * July 21 – Ta Mok, Cambodian military leader (b. 1926)
 * July 28 – David Gemmell, British author (b. 1948)
 * July 30 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)

August

 * August 3
 * Arthur Lee, American musician (b. 1945)
 * Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (b. 1915)
 * August 9 – James Van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
 * August 15
 * Te Atairangikaahu, Maori queen (b. 1931)
 * Faas Wilkes, former Dutch football player (b. 1923)
 * August 16 – Alfredo Stroessner, 42nd President of Paraguay (b. 1912)
 * August 19 – Óscar Míguez, Uruguayan football player (b. 1927)
 * August 20 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911)
 * August 21
 * Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)
 * S. Yizhar, Israeli writer (b. 1916)
 * August 23 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian musician and bandleader (b. 1928)
 * August 25 – Noor Hassanali, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1918)
 * August 26 – Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924)
 * August 27 – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian filmmaker (b. 1922)
 * August 30
 * Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (b. 1916)
 * Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Nobel writer (b. 1911)

September

 * September 1 – György Faludy, Hungarian poet (b. 1910)
 * September 2 – Bob Mathias, American athlete (b. 1930)
 * September 4
 * Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (b. 1942)
 * Steve Irwin, Australian environmentalist and television personality (b. 1962)
 * September 10
 * Daniel Wayne Smith, American actor (b. 1986)
 * Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, 4th King of Tonga (b. 1918)
 * September 11 – Joachim Fest, German historian and journalist (b. 1926)
 * September 14 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
 * September 15 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist (b. 1929)
 * September 16 – Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (b. 1987)
 * September 23 – Malcolm Arnold, English composer (b. 1921)
 * September 26
 * Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)
 * Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American propagandist for Japan in World War II (b. 1916)

October

 * October 4 – Tom Bell, English actor (b. 1933)
 * October 7 – Anna Politkovskaya, American-born Russian journalist (b. 1958)
 * October 9 – Paul Hunter, British snooker player (b. 1978)
 * October 11 – Cory Lidle, American baseball player (b. 1972)
 * October 16 – Valentín Paniagua, President of Peru (b. 1936)
 * October 20 – Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910)
 * October 22 – Choi Kyu-hah, 4th President of South Korea (b. 1919)
 * October 27 – Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Pakistani civil servant and 7th President of Pakistan (b. 1915)
 * October 28
 * Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and official (b. 1917)
 * Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955)
 * October 30 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
 * October 31 – P. W. Botha, former State President of South Africa (b. 1916)

November

 * November 1
 * Adrienne Shelly, American actress & director (b. 1966)
 * William Styron, American writer (b. 1925)
 * November 3 – Paul Mauriat, French musician (b. 1925)
 * November 5 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician, poet, writer and journalist, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1925)
 * November 8 – Basil Poledouris, American composer (b. 1945)
 * November 10 – Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
 * November 15 – Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (b. 1985)
 * November 16 – Milton Friedman, American Nobel economist (b. 1912)
 * November 17
 * Ruth Brown, American singer (b. 1928)
 * Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
 * November 20 – Robert Altman, American film director (b. 1925)
 * November 21
 * Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese politician (b. 1972)
 * Hassan Gouled Aptidon, 1st President of Djibouti (b. 1916)
 * November 22 – Frances Rutherford, New Zealand artist (b. 1912)
 * November 23
 * Alexander Litvinenko, Russian-born spy (b. 1962)
 * Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
 * Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)

December

 * December 1 – Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
 * December 5 – David Bronstein, Soviet Union chess grandmaster (b. 1924)
 * December 7 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, American political theorist and U.N. ambassador (b. 1926)
 * December 10 – Augusto Pinochet, 31st President of Chile (b. 1915)
 * December 12
 * Paul Arizin, American basketball player (b. 1928)
 * Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935)
 * December 14 – Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish record executive (b. 1923)
 * December 15 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss race car driver (b. 1939)
 * December 16 – Marjorie F. Lambert, American archaeologist, anthropologist (b. 1908)
 * December 18 – Joseph Barbera, American animator (b. 1911)
 * December 21 – Saparmurat Niyazov, 1st President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940)
 * December 25 – James Brown, American singer (b. 1933)
 * December 26 – Gerald Ford, American politician, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913)
 * December 30 – Saddam Hussein, 5th President of Iraq (b. 1937)

Nobel Prizes

 * Chemistry – Roger D. Kornberg.
 * Economics – Edmund Phelps.
 * Literature – Orhan Pamuk.
 * Peace – Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank.
 * Physics – John C. Mather, and George F. Smoot.
 * Physiology or Medicine – Andrew Z. Fire, and Craig C. Mello.

New English words and terms

 * agender
 * bucket list
 * crowdfunding
 * crowdsourcing
 * Eris
 * hypermiling
 * mumblecore
 * sizzle reel
 * ski cross