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In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]
2006Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.[†]
Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 was a scheduled passenger flight operated by Saint Petersburg-based airline Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise, flying from Anapa Airport to Pulkovo Airport in Saint Petersburg. The aircraft crashed in Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine, near the Russian border, on 22 August 2006. All 170 people on board were killed.
2006Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.[†]
Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman is a Russian mathematician and geometer who is known for his contributions to the fields of geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, and geometric topology. In 2005, Perelman resigned from his research post in Steklov Institute of Mathematics and in 2006 stated that he had quit professional mathematics, owing to feeling disappointed over the ethical standards in the field. He lives in seclusion in Saint Petersburg and has declined requests for interviews since 2006.
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The leaders of corporations and other institutions, it turns out, are not always hungry for more information after mistakes are made.
After having his day in court — and winning — Irving Lorenzo, better known as Irv Gotti, still faces a rough road back to the top.
Felix G. Rohatyn, the investment banker who helped New York City avert bankruptcy in the 1970’s, is joining Lehman Brothers as a senior adviser to its chairman.
The Yankees now lead the Red Sox by six and a half games after the first five-game road sweep in the majors in 10 years.
Mr. Crews, who has a substantial cult following championing his macho portrayals of the South, released his first book in eight years with little fanfare.
The arrests made in four states resulted in 13 men being charged with bribery and plotting to buy weapons for a Sri Lankan separatist group, the Tamil Tigers.
A flap was bound to occur sometime in Bryant Gumbel’s tenure at the NFL Network - he is hyper-opinionated, and was told no restrictions would be placed on him by the network.
Few members of the City Council can mobilize news conferences as quickly and effectively as John C. Liu can, sometimes beating them to their own districts.
A 75-foot-high retaining wall gave way in Upper Manhattan last year burying several cars. Now the cars are being dug up, with owners being asked to pay for towing.
The last time the Yankees swept a five-game series against the Red Sox was in 1951, and the last time that happened in Boston was in 1943.
Claire Messud’s novel shifts between the comic and the tragic in its portrayal of three friends teetering on the brink of a pre-midlife crisis.
Celebrating an ancient civilization by carefully duplicating its works of art.