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The war of words between Tom Cruiseâs camp and Viacom chairman Sumner M. Redstone and his allies was on the verge of escalating from recrimination to retribution.
Sam Querrey has accepted a wild-card entry into the United States Open and is generating high expectations as an 18-year-old.
A court fight is brewing over a lucrative contract to build and install bus shelters, newsstands and public toilets for New York City.
The eccentric and sarcastic Russian Dmitry Tursunov is starting to enjoy tennis on his own terms and is seeded 23rd in the United States Open.
Grown-up designers and their accountants thank heaven for pre-tween girls.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 23, 2006, covering August 24, 2006.
Rick Ross
Breaking Benjamin
Various Artists
Cassie
Slayer
2006Rocco Petrone, American soldier and engineer (born 1926)[â ]
Rocco Anthony Petrone was an American mechanical engineer, U.S. Army officer and NASA official. He served as director of launch operations at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) from 1966 to 1969, as Apollo program director at NASA Headquarters from 1969 to 1973, as third director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center from 1973 to 1974, and as NASA Associate Administrator from 1974 until his retirement from NASA in 1975.
2006LĂ©opold Simoneau, Canadian tenor and educator (born 1916)[â ]
Léopold Simoneau, was a French-Canadian lyric tenor, one of the outstanding Mozarteans of his time. In 1959 he became the first recipient of the Calixa-Lavallée Award.
2006The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.[â ]
The International Astronomical Union is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) with the objective of advancing astronomy in all aspects, including promoting astronomical research, outreach, education, and development through global cooperation. It was founded on 28 July 1919 in Brussels, Belgium and is based in Paris, France.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[â ]