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Looking to spread culture and chaos downstream, several performance art collectives, under the banner of the “Miss Rockaway Armada,” head for the Big River.
The surging Yankees had a chance to beat the White Sox, but Mariano Rivera blew the save in the ninth inning when Paul Konerko hit a leadoff home run to tie the score.
Generic drug maker Apotex on Tuesday began shipping a cheaper form of Plavix, the best-selling anticlotting agent marketed by Sanofi-Aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Big banks have been building branches to try to grab and hold onto customers, but the push may be nearing its end.
A report says that the New York region, faced with some of the highest housing costs in the country, needs to radically rethink its approach to land use, transportation and school finance.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 9, 2006, covering August 9, 2006.
LeToya
Various Artists
Pharrell
Tom Petty
Gnarls Barkley
2006Philip E. High, English author (born 1914)[†]
Philip Empson High was an English science fiction author.
2006James Van Allen, American physicist and academic (born 1914)[†]
James Alfred Van Allen was an American space physicist at the University of Iowa. He was instrumental in establishing the field of magnetospheric research in space.
2006At least 21 suspected terrorists are arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests are made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation.[†]
The 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot was a terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives, carried aboard airliners travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States and Canada, disguised as soft drinks. The plot was discovered by British Metropolitan Police during an extensive surveillance operation. As a result of the plot, unprecedented security measures were initially implemented at airports. The measures were gradually relaxed during the following weeks, but passengers are still not allowed to carry liquid containers larger than 100 ml onto commercial aircraft in their hand luggage in the UK and most other countries, as of 2025.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]