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July 17, 2006

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 12, 2006, covering July 17, 2006.

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    Album cover for Testimony: Vol. 1; Life & Relationship (Bonus Track Edition) by India.Arie

    Testimony: Vol. 1; Life & Relationship (Bonus Track Edition)

    India.Arie

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    Album cover for Dusk And Summer by Dashboard Confessional

    Dusk And Summer

    Dashboard Confessional

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    Album cover for Loose by Nelly Furtado

    Loose

    Nelly Furtado

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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 A Girl Like Me by Rihanna

    A Girl Like Me

    Rihanna

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Notable Deaths

Sam Myers

2006Sam Myers, American singer-songwriter (born 1936)[†]

Samuel Joseph Myers was an American blues musician and songwriter. He was an accompanist on dozens of recordings by blues artists over five decades. He began his career as a drummer for Elmore James but was most famous as a blues vocalist and blues harp player. For nearly two decades he was the featured vocalist for Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets.

Mickey Spillane

2006Mickey Spillane, American crime novelist (born 1918)[†]

Frank Morrison Spillane, better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, called the "king of pulp fiction". His stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself in the 1965 film The Girl Hunters.

Historical Events

2006 Pangandaran earthquake and tsunami

2006The 7.7 Mw  Pangandaran tsunami earthquake severely affects the Indonesian island of Java, killing 668 people, and leaving more than 9,000 injured.[†]

An earthquake occurred on July 17, 2006, at 15:19:27 local time along a subduction zone off the coast of west and central Java, a large and densely populated island in the Indonesian archipelago. The shock had a moment magnitude of 7.7 and a maximum perceived intensity of IV (Light) in Jakarta, the capital and largest city of Indonesia. There were no direct effects of the earthquake's shaking due to its low intensity, and the large loss of life from the event was due to the resulting tsunami, which inundated a 300 km (190 mi) portion of the Java coast that had been unaffected by the earlier 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that was off the coast of Sumatra. The July 2006 earthquake was also centered in the Indian Ocean, 180 kilometers (110 mi) from the coast of Java, and had a duration of more than three minutes.

Historical Context for July 17, 2006

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