What happened in 2006

“SexyBack”

Justin Timberlake · 7 weeks at #1 in 2006

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1. Jan 7Don't Forget About UsMariah Carey1 wk
2. Jan 14Laffy TaffyD4L1 wk
3. Jan 21GrillzNelly Featuring Paul Wall, Ali & Gipp2 wks
4. Feb 4Check On ItBeyonce Featuring Slim Thug5 wks
5. Mar 11You're BeautifulJames Blunt1 wk
6. Mar 18So SickNe-Yo2 wks
7. Apr 1TemperatureSean Paul1 wk
8. Apr 8Bad DayDaniel Powter5 wks
9. May 13SOSRihanna3 wks
10. Jun 3Ridin'Chamillionaire Featuring Krayzie Bone2 wks
11. Jun 17Hips Don't LieShakira Featuring Wyclef Jean2 wks
12. Jul 1Do I Make You ProudTaylor Hicks1 wk
13. Jul 8PromiscuousNelly Furtado Featuring Timbaland6 wks
14. Aug 19London BridgeFergie3 wks
15. Sep 9SexyBackJustin Timberlake7 wks
16. Oct 28Money MakerLudacris Featuring Pharrell2 wks
17. Nov 11My LoveJustin Timberlake Featuring T.I.3 wks
18. Dec 2I Wanna Love YouAkon Featuring Snoop Dogg2 wks
19. Dec 16IrreplaceableBeyonce3 wks

Dates are the first chart week at #1 in 2006; weeks count only those in 2006.Find the #1 song on your birthday →

1. Feb 22At approximately 6:44 a.m. local Iraqi time, explosions occurred at the al-Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq. The attack on the shrine, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, caused the escalation of sectarian tensions in Iraq into a full-scale civil war.
2. Mar 10NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reached and entered orbit around Mars.
3. Mar 11Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as the first female president of Chile.
4. Mar 21Jack Dorsey sent the first message on the social-media network Twitter.
5. Mar 25A gunman in Seattle, Washington, U.S., entered a rave afterparty and opened fire, killing six and wounding two, before committing suicide.
6. Apr 11Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium.
7. Jun 3The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
8. Jun 15US president George W. Bush designated 140,000 square miles (360,000 km2) around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, now one of the world's largest protected areas.
9. Jul 11Mumbai train bombings: 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
10. Aug 9British police arrested 24 people for conspiring to detonate liquid explosives carried on board airliners travelling from the UK to the US and Canada.
11. Aug 27Comair Flight 5191 crashed while inadvertently attempting to take off from the wrong runway at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, killing 49 of the 50 people on board, and causing the Federal Aviation Administration to modify air traffic control rules.
12. Oct 2A gunman killed five Amish girls before committing suicide in a one-room schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania.
13. Oct 4WikiLeaks is launched.
14. Dec 6NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

Event summaries from Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each links to its article.

• U.S. President

  George W. Bush

• UK Prime Minister

  Tony Blair

• Prime Minister of Canada

  Paul Martin → Stephen Harper

• German Chancellor

  Angela Merkel

• Prime Minister of Japan

  Junichiro Koizumi → Shinzō Abe

• President of Russia

  Vladimir Putin

Everyone who held the office at some point in 2006, from Wikidata.

A selection of the best-documented titles on Wikidata, by first release year; not a box-office ranking.

• Megan SkiendielAmerican singer, dancer and actress · Feb 10
• Xochitl GomezAmerican actress · Apr 29
• Gukesh DommarajuIndian chess player · May 29
• Mckenna GraceAmerican actress, singer and songwriter · Jun 25
• Sam LavagninoAmerican child voice actor · Jun 29
• Javon WaltonAmerican actor and boxer · Jul 22
• Ian ChenAmerican actor · Sep 7
• Priah FergusonAmerican actress · Oct 1
• Mason RamseyAmerican singer · Nov 16
• Cooper FlaggAmerican basketball player · Dec 21

From Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0.