On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 23, 2006, covering August 28, 2006.
Rick Ross
Breaking Benjamin
Various Artists
Cassie
Slayer
Soundtrack
Kidz Bop Kids
Gnarls Barkley
DMX
Nickelback
2006Heino Lipp, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (born 1922)[†]
Heino Lipp was an Estonian athlete, who was one of the greatest decathlete in the decade of the 1940s, but he was never able to compete in the Olympic Games, because citizens of the Soviet Union were never allowed to travel outside the Soviet Union dominated Iron Curtain countries. He also competed in the shot put, making 6 European records in the event.
2006Benoît Sauvageau, Canadian educator and politician (born 1963)[†]
Benoît Sauvageau was a Canadian politician, who served as a Bloc Québécois member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 until his death in 2006.
2006Melvin Schwartz, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1932)[†]
Melvin Schwartz was an American physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.
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Tennis craves to recover the identity extreme sports now owns: an anti-establishment, counterculture image.
The tight focus of Michael Tolkin's 1988 novel "The Player" has been replaced by a more general malaise and a more deep-seated sense of doom.
President Bush’s public persona remains that of a wartime president flying by as desperate and vulnerable Americans suffered.
I will venture the bold prediction that tickets will not go unused if Europeans dominate at the U.S. Open, as expected.
In San Diego, technology companies, nongovernmental agencies and the Pentagon held a five-day test of a new set of digital tools for responding to disaster.
Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers proves adept at building relationships and raising hopes.
Economists and other academics that study the movie industry say most marquee names in Hollywood are simply not worth the expense.
HBO's “Entourage,” about a young movie star and his three hanger-on friends, has become the subject of more and more fascination among viewers.
Wages and salaries now make up the lowest share of the nation’s economy since the U.S. began recording the data in 1947.
The Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv reported last week that an Israeli private detective had located Jacob Alexander in a seaside resort town in Sri Lanka.
After two decades of tennis and transformation, Andre Agassi will say goodbye at the Open, and hello to the rest of his life.
Standing in front of the new Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art can reawaken that belief in the power of glass to enchant.