2006 is a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has been designated:
- The International Year of Deserts and Desertification
Predicted events
- January 9 - Planned launch date of New Horizons
- February 28 - Mardi Gras
- February 9 - Independence referendum in Serbia and Montenegro
- March 1 - Attack Submarines USS-Lapon to start to be deactivated. Los Angeles class submarines USS Indianapolis, USS-Birmingham, USS-New York City and USS-Atlanta to also start to be deactivated
- March 29 - Total solar eclipse (Brazil, Mid Atlantic ocean, Sahara Desert, Turkey, Georgia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia)
- September 22 - Annular solar eclipse (South America, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean).
- September 24 - Sweden holds elections for the Riksdag.
- October - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft to Mercury makes the first of two Venus flybys.
- December 31 The United Kingdom finally pays off its 4.336 billion dollar (US) World War 2 war debts to the United States Government.
Uncertain dates
- I-295 is scheduled to have completed its loop around Jacksonville, FL.
- 2006 Winter Olympics scheduled in Turin, Italy. Proposed dates are from February 10 to 26.
- 18th Football World Cup scheduled in Germany. Proposed dates are from June 9 to July 9.
- 2006 Commonwealth Games scheduled in Melbourne, Australia.
- Finland plans to cease analog television broadcasts.
- Airbus plans to release Airbus A380 to service, the biggest airliner of the world.
- Microsoft may release Windows Longhorn, a computer operating system (although Microsoft has not stated an official release date, 2006 is a probable year)
- The European Space Agency plans to launch the Keo space time capsule
- Open Office.org is expected to release the Aqua version of Open Office for Mac OS X.
- In Germany elections for the Bundestag are to be held in September.
- Manuel Noriega becomes eligible for parole.
- The Osaka Outer Loop Line and the eighth line of the Osaka City Subway are scheduled to open in Osaka, Japan.
- Wembley Stadium expected to open after renovations.
- Kobe Airport, a controversial offshore airport in Kobe, Japan, is scheduled to open for airline service in the spring.
Midterm Elections are held in the United States in November
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