2006

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2006 is a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has been designated:

• The International Year of Deserts and Desertification

Predicted events

January

• January 9 - Planned launch date of New Horizons

February

• February 9 - Independence referendum in Serbia and Montenegro
• February 28 - Mardi Gras

March

• March 1
  • Ash Wednesday
  • Attack Submarines USS-Lapon to start to be deactivated. Los Angeles class submarines USS Indianapolis, USS-Birmingham, USS-New York City and USS-Atlanta to also start to be deactivated
• March 29 - Total solar eclipse (Brazil, Mid Atlantic ocean, Sahara Desert, Turkey, Georgia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia)

April

May

June

• June 30 - last possible date for next UK general election.

July

• July 1 - Smaller 10-, 20-, and 50-cent coins will start circulating in New Zealand.
• July 29 to August 5 - World Congress of Esperanto in Florence, Italy.

August

September

• September 11 - 5th Anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States of America in rememberance of the nearly 2,800 dead to be held around the world.
• September 22 - Annular solar eclipse (South America, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean).
• September 24 - Sweden holds elections for the Riksdag.

October

• October 1 - 5-cent pieces will cease to be legal tender in New Zealand, and the larger 10-, 20-, and 50-cent piece will suffer the same fate.
• Unknown date - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft to Mercury makes the first of two Venus flybys.

November

• November 7 - Elections for all 435 seats of the United States House of Representatives, 33 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate, and governorships in 36 of the 50 U.S. states

December

• December 31 The United Kingdom pays off its 4.336 billion (thousand million, not million million) dollar (US) World War II debts to the Government of the United States of America.

Unknown dates

• 2006 Winter Olympics scheduled in Turin, Italy. Proposed dates are from February 10 to 26.
• 18^th Football World Cup scheduled in Germany. Proposed dates are from June 9 to July 9.
• 2006 Commonwealth Games scheduled in Melbourne, Australia.
• Finland plans to cease analog television broadcasts.
• Airbus plans to release Airbus A380 to service, the biggest airliner of the world.
• Microsoft may release Windows Longhorn, a computer operating system (although Microsoft has not stated an official release date, 2006 is a probable year)
• The European Space Agency plans to launch the Keo space time capsule
• Open Office.org is expected to release the Aqua version of Open Office for Mac OS X.
• In Germany elections for the Bundestag are to be held in September.
• Manuel Noriega becomes eligible for parole.
• The Osaka Outer Loop Line and the eighth line of the Osaka City Subway are scheduled to open in Osaka, Japan.
• Wembley Stadium expected to open after renovations.
• Kobe Airport, a controversial offshore airport in Kobe, Japan, is scheduled to open for airline service in the spring.
• World oil production peaks this year according to "The Peak Of World Oil Production And The Road To The Olduvai Gorge" by Richard C. Duncan.
• The new Sony PlayStation 3 to be released worldwide (it will probably happen in 2006).
• General election in Italy, probably for the first half of the year.
• Australian Bureau of Statistics to hold a census.
• Motion Picture Indiana Jones 4 will be released.