Portal:Current events/July 2006/Sidebar

Events

32nd G8 summit Atlantic hurricane season Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak Black sites scandal Chilean student protests Cole Inquiry East Timor military and political crisis Horn of Africa food crisis Immigration law debates in the US Iran's nuclear program Israel–Lebanon crisis Mumbai train bombings New Jersey State Government shutdown North Indian cyclone season Northeastern Ontario derecho NSA warrantless surveillance controversy Operación Puerto doping case Pacific hurricane season Pacific typhoon season Southern Hemisphere cyclone season Tour de France Wimbledon Tennis Championships World Cup 2006, Germany

Deaths

1: Ryutaro Hashimoto 1: Fred Trueman 2: Herty Lewites 2: Jan Murray 3: Jack Smith 3: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 5: Kenneth Lay 6: Kasey Rogers 7: Rudi Carrell 7: Syd Barrett 8: June Allyson 9: Alan Senitt 9: Shamil Basayev 11: Barnard Hughes 12: Hubert Lampo 12: Kurt Kreuger 13: Red Buttons 14: Carrie Nye 15: Robert H. Brooks 16: Bob Orton 16: Win Rockefeller 17: Mickey Spillane 19: Jack Warden 20: Lim Kim San 21: Mako Iwamatsu 21: Ta Mok 23: Frederick Mosteller 26: Jessie Gilbert 30: Pierre Vidal-Naquet

Armed conflicts
Acholiland insurgency Arab–Israeli conflict (al-Aqsa Intifada) Operation Summer Rains Chadian–Sudanese conflict Darfur conflict in Sudan Iraq War Ituri conflict in the DR Congo Ivorian Civil War Nepal Civil War Second Chechen War South Thailand insurgency

Elections
5: Macedonia, Parliament 28-30: Seychelles 30: DR Congo, General (President and Legislature) 30: São Tomé and Príncipe, President

Trials

Chile: Alberto Fujimori (extradition) Chile: Augusto Pinochet Ethiopia: 111 defendants, including leaders of the CUD and journalists, on charges related to the 2005 elections. Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal Saddam Hussein, among others Netherlands: ICC Thomas Lubanga Netherlands: ICTY Sierra Leone: SCfSL Charles Taylor UK: Leo O'Connor & David Keogh U.S.: Brian Nichols U.S.: Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling (sentencing) U.S.: Tom DeLay

Holidays and observances

1: HKSAR Establishment Day (Hong Kong) 1: Canada Day (Canada) 4: Independence Day (United States) 5: Saints Cyril and Methodius Day (Czech Republic, Slovakia) 5: Independence Day (Venezuela) 5: Tynwald Day (Isle of Man) 6: Jan Hus Day (Czech Republic) 6: Statehood Day (Lithuania) 7: Ivan Kupala (Russia) 7: Tanabata (Japan) 9: National Day of Commemoration (Ireland) 11-13: Naadam (Mongolia) 11: World Population Day 11: Flemish Day (Flemish Region, Belgium) 12: The Twelfth (Northern Ireland) 13: Seventeenth of Tammuz (Judaism) 13=15: Bon Festival begins (Japan) 14: Bastille Day (France) 15: Men's Day (Brazil) 17: Marine Day (Japan) 17: Constitution Day (Korea) 19: President's Day (Botswana) 20: Friends' Day (Argentina) 21: National holiday (Belgium) 23: Revolution Day (Egypt) 23: Parents' Day (United States) 24: Pioneer Day (Utah) 24: Simón Bolívar's Birthday (Ecuador, Venezuela) 29: Ólavsøka (Faroe Islands) 31: Ka Hae Hawai‘i Day (Hawaii) 31: Qi Xi (traditional Chinese festival)