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October 9, 2006

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 4, 2006, covering October 9, 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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Notable Deaths

2006Daniùle Huillet, French filmmaker (born 1933)[†]

Jean-Marie Straub and DaniĂšle Huillet were a duo of French filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for their rigorous, intellectually stimulating style and radical, communist politics. While both were French, they worked mostly in Germany and Italy. From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979) and Sicilia! (1999) are among the duo's best regarded works.

Paul Hunter

2006Paul Hunter, English snooker player (born 1978)[†]

Paul Alan Hunter was an English professional snooker player. He was a three-time Masters champion, winning the event in 2001, 2002, and 2004; on all three occasions, he recovered from a deficit in the final to claim the title on a deciding frame. He also won three ranking events: the Welsh Open in 1998 and 2002, and the 2002 British Open.

Kanshi Ram

2006Kanshi Ram, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1934)[†]

Kanshi Ram, also known as Bahujan Nayak or Manyavar, Sahab Kanshiram was an Indian politician and social reformer who worked for the upliftment and political mobilisation of the Bahujans, the backward or lower caste people including untouchable groups at the bottom of the caste system in India. Towards this end, Kanshi Ram founded Dalit Shoshit Samaj Sangharsh Samiti (DS-4), the All India Backwards (SC/ST/OBC) and Minorities Communities Employees' Federation (BAMCEF) in 1971 and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in 1984. He ceded leadership of the BSP to his protégé Mayawati who has served four terms as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

Historical Events

2006 North Korean nuclear test

2006North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.[†]

On October 9, 2006, North Korea performed its first nuclear test, detonating a plutonium-based device underground.

Historical Context for October 9, 2006

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