2006

2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2006th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 6th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2000s decade.

2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.

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From top left, clockwise: the 2006 Winter Olympics are held in Turin , Italy; Israel and Lebanon enter conflict ; train bombings in Mumbai kill 209 people; Montenegro votes to declare independence from Serbia; the 2006 FIFA World Cup is held in Germany and is won by Italy; Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 crashes in the Amazon rainforest after a mid-air collision with an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet; an earthquake in Yogyakarta kills over 5,700 people; the IAU votes on the definition of planet , which demotes Pluto and other Kuiper belt objects and redefines them as " dwarf planets ".