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August 20, 2006

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Headlines from August 20, 2006

The YouTube Election

By Ryan Lizza

August, usually the sleepiest month in politics, has suddenly become raucous, thanks in part to YouTube, the vast videosharing Web site.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 16, 2006, covering August 20, 2006.

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    Album cover for NOW 22 by Various Artists

    NOW 22

    Various Artists

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    Album cover for Year Of The Dog...Again by DMX

    Year Of The Dog...Again

    DMX

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    Album cover for Kidz Bop 10 by Kidz Bop Kids

    Kidz Bop 10

    Kidz Bop Kids

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    Album cover for Come What(ever) May by Stone Sour

    Come What(ever) May

    Stone Sour

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    Album cover for LeToya by LeToya

    LeToya

    LeToya

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Notable Deaths

Bryan Budd

2006Bryan Budd, Northern Ireland-born English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1977)[†]

Bryan James Budd, was a British Army soldier and a Northern Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Joe Rosenthal

2006Joe Rosenthal, American photographer and journalist (born 1911)[†]

Joseph John Rosenthal was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima. His picture became one of the best-known photographs of the war, and was replicated as the United States Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington County, Virginia.

S. Sivamaharajah

2006S. Sivamaharajah, Sri Lankan Tamil newspaper publisher and politician (born 1938)[†]

Sinnathamby Sivamaharajah was a Sri Lankan Tamil newspaper publisher, politician and Member of Parliament.

Historical Events

Sri Lankan civil war

2006Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP S. Sivamaharajah is shot dead at his home in Tellippalai.[†]

The Sri Lankan civil war was a civil war fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. Beginning on 23 July 1983, it was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam led by Velupillai Prabhakaran. The LTTE fought to create an independent Tamil state called Tamil Eelam in the north-east of the island, due to the continuous discrimination and violent persecution against Sri Lankan Tamils by the Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lanka government.

Historical Context for August 20, 2006

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