Portal:Current events/August 2006/Sidebar

• 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot
• Atlantic hurricane season
• Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak
• Black sites scandal
• 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
• North Indian cyclone season
• NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
• Operación Puerto doping case
• Pacific hurricane season
• Pacific typhoon season
• Southern Hemisphere cyclone season

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• 1: Bob Thaves
• 1: Johannes Willebrands
• 2: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
• 3: Arthur Lee
• 5: Susan Butcher
• 8: Gustavo Arcos
• 9: James Van Allen
• 11: Mike Douglas
• 12: Raska Lukwiya
• 13: Tony Jay
• 13: Victoria Gray Adams
• 14: Bruno Kirby
• Te Atairangi Kaahu
• 16: Alfredo Stroessner
• 17: Shamsur Rahman
• 20: Joe Rosenthal
• 23: Wasim Raja
• 23: Maynard Ferguson
• 25: Joseph Stefano
• Ustad Bismillah Khan
• Nawab Akbar Bugti
• 27: María Capovilla
• 28: Benoît Sauvageau
• 28: Don Chipp
• 29: Jumpin' Gene Simmons
• 30: Glenn Ford
• 30: Naguib Mahfouz
• 31: Bakul Tripathi

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• Acholiland insurgency
• al-Aqsa Intifada
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  • 2006 Israel–Gaza conflict
  • 2006 Lebanon War
• Darfur conflict in Sudan
• Iraq War
• Ituri conflict in the DR Congo
• Ivorian Civil War
• Nepal Civil War
• Second Chechen War
• South Thailand insurgency

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• Tuvalu
  , Parliament
• GA
  primaries
• 28: Guyana, President and Parliament

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• Chile: Alberto Fujimori (extradition)
• Chile: Augusto Pinochet
• Ethiopia: 111 defendants, including leaders of the
  2005 elections
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• 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.: Jeffrey Skilling (sentencing)
• U.S.: Tom DeLay

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• Bahamas
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• National Day (Switzerland
  )
• 3: Tisha B'Av (Jewish fasting day)
• Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day (Croatia
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• 7: Civic Holiday (Canada)
• 8: Father's Day (Taiwan)
• traditional Chinese festival
  )
• 9: National Women's Day (South Africa)
• National Day (Singapore
  )
• 9: Raksha Bandhan (Hinduism)
• 12: International Youth Day
• 12: Mother's Day (Thailand)
• Independence Day (Pakistan
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• Republic of Congo, N. & S.Korea
  )
• 15: Victory over Japan Day
• 15: Flooding of the Nile (Egypt)
• Krishna Janmaashtami (Hinduism
  )
• 16: Children's Day (Paraguay)
• 16: Bennington Battle Day (Vermont, United States)
• 18: Buhe (Ethiopia)
• 19: Afghan Independence Day (Afghanistan)
• 19: National Aviation Day (United States)
• 20: St. Stephen's Day (Hungary)
• Ninoy Aquino Day (Philippines
  )
• 27: Ganesh Chaturthi (Hinduism)
• 27: Heroes' Day (Philippines)
• St. Rose of Lima's Day (Peru
  )
• 30: Victory Day (Turkey)
• 31: Hari Merdeka (Malaysia)

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