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October 4, 2006

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Headlines from October 4, 2006

Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 4, 2006, covering October 4, 2006.

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    Album cover for FutureSex/LoveSounds by Justin Timberlake

    FutureSex/LoveSounds

    Justin Timberlake

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    Album cover for A Thousand Different Ways by Clay Aiken

    A Thousand Different Ways

    Clay Aiken

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    Album cover for The Dutchess by Fergie

    The Dutchess

    Fergie

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    Album cover for LIVE: Live Those Songs Again by Kenny Chesney

    LIVE: Live Those Songs Again

    Kenny Chesney

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    Album cover for Continuum by John Mayer

    Continuum

    John Mayer

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Historical Events

WikiLeaks

2006WikiLeaks is launched.[†]

WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents. It is funded by donations and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and other media provided by anonymous sources. It was founded in 2006 by Julian Assange. Kristinn Hrafnsson is its editor-in-chief. Its website states that it has released more than ten million documents and associated analyses. WikiLeaks' most recent publication of original documents was in 2019 and its most recent publication was in 2021. From November 2022, numerous documents on the organisation's website became inaccessible. In 2023, Assange said that WikiLeaks is no longer able to publish due to his imprisonment and the effect that US government surveillance and WikiLeaks' funding restrictions were having on potential whistleblowers.

Historical Context for October 4, 2006

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