Events in September 2006
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Sep. 1
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Eighty Sea Tigers are killed by the Sri Lankan Army in a six-hour naval battle along the coast of Point Pedro up to Kankesanthurai harbour. |
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Sep. 3
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SMART - 1, Europe’s first spacecraft to the moon, launched in September 2003, ends its mission with a planned crash on the lunar surface. |
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Sep. 4
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Australian “crocodile hunter” Steve Irwin (44) dies following a stingray blow to the chest while filming a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Port Douglas in Queensland State. |
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Sep. 6
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Seven junior Ministers in the Tony Blair Government in England quit triggering a crisis of sorts. |
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Princess Kiko, wife of Japan’s crown Prince Naruhito gives birth to a male child, later named Hisahito, the long awaited heir to the Chrysanthemum throne. |
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The U.S. President, George Bush confirms existence of a secret CIA prison network. |
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Sep. 7
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Israel lifts air embargo on Lebanon in force since July 12. |
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Militants kill at at least 44 Iraqis even as the Baghdad Government begins to take command of its armed forces. |
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Sep. 8
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The General Assembly adopts a United Nations Global Counter - Terrorism Strategy. |
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Sep. 9
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Israel lifts its eight x week long naval blockade of Lebanon. |
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Space shuttle Atlantis blasts off from Cape Canaveral with six astronauts on board. |
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At least 150 persons are killed as battle rages in Sri Lanka. |
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Sep. 11
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The Palestinian militant group Hamas and Fatah reach agreement on the formation of a national government. |
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The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis docks with the International Space Station. |
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Sep. 12
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India and Brazil agree to elevate relations to the level of a strategic partnership after talks between Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brasilia. |
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Sep. 13
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The plenary session of the first India - Brazil - South Africa (IBSA) summit held in Brasilia gives its support to New Delhi’s nuclear deal. |
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Daniel Alter, Malcolm Mattitiani and Tomas Kucera are ordained rabbis at a Dresden synagogue in the first such function in Germany since the Holocaust. |
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Sep. 14
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The peaceful use of nuclear energy is an “inalienable right” of all states, says the joint declaration on the conclusion of the IBSA summit. |
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The 14th Non-Aligned Movement summit opens in Cuba with acting President Raul Castro assailing U.S. bid for ‘world dominance.’ |
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“If NAM is to be relevant it cannot afford to equivocate on terrorism”, says the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh in his address to the 118 - member grouping. |
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Sep. 16
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India and Pakistan decide to set up an Anti - Terrorism Mechanism after talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pervez Musharraf in Havana. |
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Sep. 17
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The NAM Summit adopts the Havana Declaration and the Final Document. |
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Voting begins on “biggest reforms in 60 years” since the inception of the IMF, in Singapore. |
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Swiss voters cast ballots in parliament polls. |
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Sep. 18
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The IMF Board of Governors endorses reforms package. |
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The first woman tourist in space, Iranian - American Anousheh Ansari, blasts off on a Soyuz rocket from the Russian cosmodrome of Baikonur in Kazakhstan. |
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Sep. 19
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Thailand’s Army Chief Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratglin stages a coup against Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra and revokes Constitution. |
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Britain’s Royal Mail allows customers buy stamps online. |
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Sep. 21
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Space shuttle Atlantis lands safely after completing a landmark construction mission crucial to the International Space Station. |
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Sep. 23
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Japan launches its M-V rocket to put a sun observation satellite in orbit. |
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Nepal’s Forest Minister, Gopal Rai and his wife are among 24 persons killed in a chopper crash. |
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Sep. 26
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Shinzo Abe is elected Japanese Prime Minister by Parliament. Taro Aso reappointed Foreign Minister and Fumio Kyuma becomes Defence Agency Chief. |
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The European Union gives the green signal to Romania and Bulgaria to join it in January 2007. |
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Sep. 27
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A French medical team does a surgery on a man in near zero gravity conditions on a flight. |
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Sep. 28
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Indian women’s rights activist Ruth Manorama and Daniel Ellsberg Pentagon whistleblower are honoured with the Right Livelihood Award, in Stockholm. |
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Chinese scientists conduct first test of an experimental thermo nuclear fusion reactor nicknamed ‘artificial sun’ in Hefei. |
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The U.S. Senate gives its nod for a Bill on trials of terrorism suspects after a 10-hour debate. President given formal power to order wiretaps on Americans. |
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Sep. 29
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Anousheh Ansari, the world’s first woman space tourist returns to Earth aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule and lands safely on the Kazkh steppe. |
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One hundred and fifty five people are killed as a Brazilian Airlines flight crashes in a densely forested area of Northern Brazil. |
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