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October 28, 2006

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 25, 2006, covering October 28, 2006.

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    Album cover for Still The Same... Great Rock Classics Of Our Time by Rod Stewart

    Still The Same... Great Rock Classics Of Our Time

    Rod Stewart

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    Album cover for The Open Door by Evanescence

    The Open Door

    Evanescence

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    Album cover for Rotten Apple by Lloyd Banks

    Rotten Apple

    Lloyd Banks

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    Album cover for Take The Weather With You by Jimmy Buffett

    Take The Weather With You

    Jimmy Buffett

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    Album cover for Duets: An American Classic by Tony Bennett

    Duets: An American Classic

    Tony Bennett

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Notable Births

Yoon Do-young

2006Yoon Do-young, South Korean footballer[†]

Yoon Do-young is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a winger for K League 1 club Daejeon Hana Citizen. He made his debut professional appearance in the 2024 K League 1 season.

Notable Deaths

Red Auerbach

2006Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach (born 1917)[†]

Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach was an American professional basketball coach and executive. As a head coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA), he led the Boston Celtics to an unprecedented championship run, winning eight consecutive NBA championships from 1959 to 1966.

Trevor Berbick

2006Trevor Berbick, Jamaican-Canadian boxer (born 1954)[†]

Trevor Berbick was a Jamaican professional boxer who competed from 1976 to 2000. He won the WBC heavyweight title in 1986 by defeating Pinklon Thomas, then lost it in his first defense in the same year to Mike Tyson. Berbick was the last boxer to fight Muhammad Ali, defeating him in 1981 by unanimous decision.

Marijohn Wilkin

2006Marijohn Wilkin, American guitarist and songwriter (born 1920)[†]

Marijohn Wilkin was an American songwriter, famous in country music for writing a number of hits such as "One Day At a Time" and "The Long Black Veil". Wilkin won numerous awards over the years and was referred to as "The Den Mother of Music Row," as chronicled in her 1978 biography Lord, Let Me Leave a Song. It was honored as “One of the 100 Most Important Books about Nashville’s Music Industry.”

Historical Events

Bykivnia graves

2006A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police.[†]

The Bykivnia graves are a National Historic Memorial next to the former village of Bykivnia within Kyiv woodland, Bykivnia Forest. During the Stalinist period in the Soviet Union, it was one of the unmarked mass grave sites where the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, disposed of thousands of murdered "enemies of the Soviet state". Bykivnia as a residential place still exists as a locality with the same Bykivnia Forest. The National Memorial is located across Brovarskyi Prospect from Bykivnia, next to the former Rybne Soviet fishery in the thick of the woods.

Historical Context for October 28, 2006

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