Editing 2006 (section)

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{{Events by month|2006|prefix=Portal:Current events/}}
{{About year|2006|the album|2006 (album)}}
[[File:2006 Events Collage 3.0.jpg|right|From top left, clockwise: the [[2006 Winter Olympics]] are held in [[Turin]], Italy; Israel and Lebanon enter [[2006 Lebanon War|conflict]]; [[2006 Mumbai train bombings|train bombings]] in [[Mumbai]] kill 209 people; Montenegro [[2006 Montenegrin independence referendum|votes to declare independence]] from Serbia; the [[2006 FIFA World Cup]] is held in Germany and is won by Italy; [[Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907]] crashes in the [[Amazon rainforest]] after a mid-air collision with an [[Embraer Legacy 600]] business jet; an [[2006 Yogyakarta earthquake|earthquake]] in [[Yogyakarta]] kills over 5,700 people; the [[IAU]] votes on the [[IAU definition of planet|definition of ''planet'']], which demotes [[Pluto]] and other [[Kuiper belt]] objects and redefines them as "[[dwarf planet]]s".|300x300px|thumb]]
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{{Year nav|2006}}
{{Year in various calendars|year=2006}}
{{Year article header|2006}}
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2006 was designated as the [[International Year of Deserts and Desertification]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=7589&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |title=International Years proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly |publisher=UNESCO |access-date=2008-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001215257/http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID%3D7589%26URL_DO%3DDO_TOPIC%26URL_SECTION%3D201.html |archive-date=October 1, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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