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October 2, 2006

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 27, 2006, covering October 2, 2006.

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    Album cover for FutureSex/LoveSounds by Justin Timberlake

    FutureSex/LoveSounds

    Justin Timberlake

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    Album cover for Continuum by John Mayer

    Continuum

    John Mayer

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    Album cover for B'Day by Beyonce

    B'Day

    Beyonce

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    Album cover for Face The Promise by Bob Seger

    Face The Promise

    Bob Seger

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    Album cover for Modern Times by Bob Dylan

    Modern Times

    Bob Dylan

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Notable Deaths

Helen Chenoweth-Hage

2006Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (born 1938)[†]

Helen Margaret Palmer Chenoweth-Hage was an American politician from the U.S. state of Idaho, serving three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2001. She remains one of two women to ever represent Idaho in the United States Congress and the only one from the Republican Party.

Paul Halmos

2006Paul Halmos, Hungarian-American mathematician (born 1916)[†]

Paul Richard Halmos was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and probabilist who made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis. He was also recognized as a great mathematical expositor. He has been described as one of The Martians.

Historical Events

2006Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States.[†]

On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township, Pennsylvania. Gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostages and shot ten girls, killing six, before committing suicide in the schoolhouse. The emphasis on forgiveness and reconciliation in the Amish community's response was widely discussed by the national media. The West Nickel Mines School was later demolished, and a new one-room schoolhouse, the New Hope School, was built at another location. It is the worst school shooting in Pennsylvania history.

Historical Context for October 2, 2006

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