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Four of Gustav Klimt’s paintings go to the auction block, and a story about justice and redemption after the Holocaust devolves into yet another tale of the crazy, intoxicating art market.
Pragmatism among antiwar Democrats seems to have buoyed a Washington senator’s campaign.
Hoping to pay a proper tribute, fire buffs compiled the names and stories of those killed on duty in New York.
The National Retail Federation will predict a sales increase of 5 percent, to $457.4 billion, compared with last year.
State Senator Wayne R. Bryant of New Jersey had a no-show job at the state’s medical and dental school that paid him “to lobby himself,” according to a report.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 13, 2006, covering September 19, 2006.
Bob Dylan
Danity Kane
Young Dro
Christina Aguilera
Jessica Simpson
2006Elizabeth Allen, American actress (born 1929)[†]
Elizabeth Allen was an American theatre, television, and film actress and singer whose 40-year career lasted from the mid-1950s through the mid-1990s, and included scores of TV episodes and six theatrical features, two of which were directed by John Ford.
2006Danny Flores, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (born 1929)[†]
Daniel Flores, also known by his stage name Chuck Rio, was an American Rock and roll saxophonist. He is best remembered for his self-penned song "Tequila", which he recorded with The Champs, the band of which he was a member at the time, and which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
2006Martha Holmes, American photographer and journalist (born 1923)[†]
Martha Holmes Waxman was an American photographer and photojournalist.
2006Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist and manager (born 1950)[†]
Roy Schuiten was a Dutch track and road racing cyclist. After retirement he became a team manager before starting a restaurant.
2006The Thai army stages a coup. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.[†]
The 2006 Thai coup d'état took place on 19 September 2006, when the Royal Thai Army staged a coup d'état against the elected caretaker government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The coup d'état, which was Thailand's first non-constitutional change of government in fifteen years since the 1991 Thai coup d'état, followed a year-long political crisis involving Thaksin, his allies, and political opponents and occurred less than a month before nationwide House elections were scheduled to be held. It has been widely reported in Thailand and elsewhere that General Prem Tinsulanonda, a key person in the military-monarchy nexus, Chairman of the Privy Council, was the mastermind of the coup. The military cancelled the scheduled 15 October elections, abrogated the 1997 constitution, dissolved parliament and the constitutional court, banned protests and all political activities, suppressed and censored the media, declared martial law nationwide, and arrested cabinet members.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]