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August 22, 2006

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Headlines from August 22, 2006

Rohatyn Will Take Lehman Post

By Andrew Ross Sorkin

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.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 16, 2006, covering August 22, 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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Historical Events

Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612

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.

Grigori Perelman

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.

Historical Context for August 22, 2006

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