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May 3, 2006

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 3, 2006, covering May 3, 2006.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Me And My Gang by Rascal Flatts

    Me And My Gang

    Rascal Flatts

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    3
  2. 2
    Album cover for NOW 21 by Various Artists

    NOW 21

    Various Artists

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    3
  3. 3
    Album cover for High School Musical by Soundtrack

    High School Musical

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    15
  4. 4
    Album cover for White Trash With Money by Toby Keith

    White Trash With Money

    Toby Keith

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    2
  5. 5
    Album cover for King by T.I.

    King

    T.I.

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    4

Notable Deaths

Karel Appel

2006Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet (born 1921)[†]

Christiaan Karel Appel was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement CoBrA in 1948. He was also an avid sculptor and has had works featured in MoMA and other museums worldwide.

Pramod Mahajan

2006Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (born 1949)[†]

Pramod Venkatesh Mahajan was an Indian politician from Maharashtra. A second-generation leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he belonged to a group of relatively young "technocratic" leaders. At the time of his death, he was in a power struggle for the leadership of the BJP, given the imminent retirement of its aging top brass.

Earl Woods

2006Earl Woods, American colonel, baseball player, and author (born 1932)[†]

Earl Dennison Woods was the father of American professional golfer Tiger Woods. Woods started his son in golf at a very early age and coached him exclusively over his first years in the sport. He later published two books about the process.

Historical Events

Armavia Flight 967

2006Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi International Airport in Sochi, Russia, killing 113 people.[†]

Armavia Flight 967 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Armavia from Zvartnots International Airport, Zvartnots in Armenia to Sochi, a Black Sea coastal resort city in Russia. On 3 May 2006, the aircraft operating the route, an Airbus A320-200, crashed into the sea while attempting a go-around following its first approach to Sochi airport; all 113 aboard were killed. The accident was the first major commercial airline crash in 2006. It was Armavia's only fatal accident during the airline's existence.

Historical Context for May 3, 2006

In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]