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July 9, 2006

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 5, 2006, covering July 9, 2006.

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    Album cover for Loose by Nelly Furtado

    Loose

    Nelly Furtado

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    Album cover for Define The Great Line by Underoath

    Define The Great Line

    Underoath

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    Album cover for Taking The Long Way by Dixie Chicks

    Taking The Long Way

    Dixie Chicks

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    Album cover for Under The Iron Sea by Keane

    Under The Iron Sea

    Keane

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    Album cover for The Big Bang by Busta Rhymes

    The Big Bang

    Busta Rhymes

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Notable Deaths

2006Milan Williams, American keyboard player and producer (born 1948)[†]

Milan B. Williams was an American keyboardist and a founding member of The Commodores.

Historical Events

S7 Airlines Flight 778

2006One hundred and twenty-five people are killed when S7 Airlines Flight 778, an Airbus A310 passenger jet, veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.[†]

S7 Airlines Flight 778 (S7778/SBI778) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Moscow to Irkutsk, Russia. On 9 July 2006, at 06:44 local time, the Airbus A310-324 aircraft operating the route overran the runway during its landing in Irkutsk. The aircraft failed to stop and crashed through the airport's concrete perimeter fence, struck rows of private garages and burst into flames, killing 125 people.

Historical Context for July 9, 2006

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