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===January=== * [[January 1]]β[[January 4|4]] β Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a [[RussiaβUkraine gas disputes|price dispute]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/energies/energies-14-04984/article_deploy/energies-14-04984-v2.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/energies/energies-14-04984/article_deploy/energies-14-04984-v2.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=Hold-Up Problems in International Gas Trade: A Case Study|work=Energies|access-date=2022-03-20}}</ref> * [[January 12]] β [[2006 Hajj stampede|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]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/hundreds-killed-as-haj-pilgrims-rush-to-stone-the-devil-522749.html|title=Hundreds killed as Haj pilgrims rush to stone the devil|date=January 13, 2006|access-date=2009-07-06|work=[[The Independent]]|first=Justin|last=Huggler|location=London|archive-date=November 19, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101119045108/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/hundreds-killed-as-haj-pilgrims-rush-to-stone-the-devil-522749.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/islam/hajj.html|title=What is the Islamic hajj?|date=January 12, 2006|work=[[CBC News]]|access-date=2009-07-06|quote=It's the same place where 362 people died in a stampede on Jan. 12, 2006|archive-date=July 15, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090715045405/http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/islam/hajj.html|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[January 15]] β [[NASA]]'s ''[[Stardust (spacecraft)|Stardust]]'' mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a [[comet]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181763,00.html|title=Stardust Container in Almost Perfect Condition|date=January 17, 2006|access-date=2009-07-06|agency=Associated Press|work=Fox News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106160304/https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181763,00.html|archive-date=November 6, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[January 19]] β [[NASA]] launches the first interplanetary space probe to [[Pluto]], the ''[[New Horizons]]''.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/|title=New Horizons|work=jhuapl.edu|access-date=November 25, 2015|archive-date=December 23, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223122133/http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[January 22]] β [[Evo Morales]] is inaugurated as [[president of Bolivia]]. * [[January 25]] β [[Hamas]] wins the [[2006 Palestinian legislative election]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2006/1/26/hamas-wins-huge-majority |title=Hamas wins huge majority |website=Al Jazeera |date=January 26, 2006 |access-date=October 5, 2024}}</ref> * [[January 29]] β The roof of one of the buildings at the [[Katowice International Fair]] [[Katowice Trade Hall roof collapse|collapsed]] in [[Katowice]], Poland, killing 65 and injuring 170.<ref>{{cite news|title=Poland cuts death toll from cave-in of roof to 62|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/30/world/europe/30iht-poland.html|work=The New York Times|date=January 30, 2006 |accessdate=November 5, 2012}}</ref> * [[January 30]] β Jennifer San Marco goes on [[Goleta postal facility shootings|a killing spree]] in [[Goleta, California]], United States that leaves seven people dead before she takes her own life.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.com/2013/01/31/goleta-postal-murders/ | title=The Goleta Postal Murders | date=January 31, 2013 | access-date=October 3, 2023 | archive-date=October 4, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004092908/https://www.independent.com/2013/01/31/goleta-postal-murders/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
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