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June 21, 2006

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 21, 2006, covering June 21, 2006.

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    Album cover for Decemberunderground by AFI

    Decemberunderground

    AFI

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    1
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    1
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    Album cover for Taking The Long Way by Dixie Chicks

    Taking The Long Way

    Dixie Chicks

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
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    3
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    Album cover for New Joc City by Yung Joc

    New Joc City

    Yung Joc

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    3
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    1
  4. 4
    Album cover for Laugh Now; Cry Later by Ice Cube

    Laugh Now; Cry Later

    Ice Cube

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    1
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    Album cover for High School Musical by Soundtrack

    High School Musical

    Soundtrack

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
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    22

Notable Deaths

Jared C. Monti

2006Jared C. Monti, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1975)[†]

Jared Christopher Monti was a soldier in the United States Army who received the United States military's highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the War in Afghanistan.

Historical Events

Pluto

2006Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.[†]

Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume by a small margin, but is less massive than Eris. Like other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto is made primarily of ice and rock and is much smaller than the inner planets. Pluto has roughly one-sixth the mass of the Moon and one-third its volume. Originally considered a planet, its classification was changed when astronomers adopted a new definition of planet.

Yeti Airlines

2006A Yeti Airlines de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter crashes at Jumla Airport in Nepal, killing nine people.[†]

Yeti Airlines Pvt. Ltd. is an airline based in Kathmandu, Nepal. The airline was established in May 1998 and received its air operator's certificate on 17 August 1998. Since 2019, Yeti Airlines is the first carbon neutral airline in Nepal and South Asia. It is the parent company of Tara Air. As of 2024, Yeti Airlines is the second-largest domestic carrier in Nepal by passengers carried and third largest by fleet size. It is currently banned from flying into EU airspace.

Historical Context for June 21, 2006

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