April 2006

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2006 developments by topic

Deaths
  • 2: Nina von Stauffenberg
  • 2: Michael J. Novosel
  • 4: Denis Donaldson
  • 5: Gene Pitney
  • 8: Gerard Reve
  • 11: DeShaun "Proof" Holton
  • 11: June Pointer
  • 12: William Sloane Coffin
  • 12: Rajkumar
  • 13: Muriel Spark
  • 19: Scott Crossfield
  • 22: Alida Valli
  • 23: Ghafar Baba
  • 24: Steve Stavro
  • 25: Jane Jacobs
  • 25: Peter Law
  • 27: Julia Thorne
  • 29: John Kenneth Galbraith
  • 30: Paul Spiegel
Events
  • Abramoff scandal
  • Ariel Sharon illness
  • Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak
  • Black sites scandal
  • CIA leak grand jury investigation
  • Cole Inquiry
  • Demonstrations in Nepal
  • Formation of a new Iraqi government
  • Horn of Africa food crisis
  • Iran's nuclear program
  • Liberal leadership race in Canada
  • Malawi food crisis
  • Montenegrin independence campaign
  • Muhammad cartoons controversy
  • North Indian cyclone season
  • NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
  • Pacific typhoon season
  • Southern Hemisphere cyclone season
Ongoing armed conflicts
  • Acholiland insurgency
  • Arab-Israeli conflict (Al-Aqsa Intifada)
  • Darfur conflict in Sudan
  • Iraq War
  • Ituri conflict in the DR Congo
  • Ivorian Civil War
  • Nepal Civil War
  • Second Chechen War
  • South Thailand insurgency
Elections
  • 2: Thailand, Legislative (Lower house)
  • 9: Peru, President (1st Round) and legislature
  • 9 and 10: Italy, Parliament
  • 9: Hungary, Parliament (1st Round)
  • 17: India, State legislature
  • 19: Thailand, Legislature (Upper house)
  • 21: Haiti, Parliament (2nd Round)
  • 23: Hungary, Parliament (2nd Round)
  • 27: Scotland, Moray by-election
  • 30: Laos, Parliamentary
Trials
  • Chile: Alberto Fujimori (extradition)
  • Chile: Augusto Pinochet
  • Ethiopia: 111 defendants, including leaders of the CUD and journalists, for charges related to the 2005 elections
  • Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal
    • Saddam Hussein, among others
  • Netherlands: ICC
    • Thomas Lubanga
  • Netherlands: ICTY
  • Russia: Nur-Pashi Kulayev
  • Sierra Leone: SCfSL
    • Charles Taylor
  • South Africa: Jacob Zuma
  • UK: Leo O'Connor and David Keogh
  • U.S.: Brian Nichols
  • U.S.: Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling
  • U.S.: Tom DeLay
  • U.S.: Zacarias Moussaoui

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