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April 2006 Timeline

April 1
A small plane crashed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing all 19 people on board

April 2
General elections were held in Thailand but boycotted by the three main opposition parties

April 3
A military C-5 cargo plane crashed near Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, all 14 people on board survived with non-life threatening injuries

April 4
Over one million people protested across France against new labor laws

April 7
Tree suicide bombers killed at least 74 people and wounded 138 at Shiite mosque in Baghdad, Iraq

April 8
Tornado killed at least 11 people in Tennessee, USA

April 9
3 people died in Nepalese pro-democracy protests

April 10
A boat capsized on Ghana's Lake Volta, 120 people were killed

April 10
French government announced the controversial youth employment contract which prompted protests across France will be replaced

April 10
Hundreds of thousands protested against new restrictions on immigration in cities and towns across the United States

April 10
Italian opposition leader Romano Prodi claimed victory in Italian general elections

April 11
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was declared permanently incapacitated, formally ending his premiership

April 13
The rebels attacked Chad's capital N'Djamena to overthrow Chadian President Idriss Deby

April 14
Chad broke diplomatic relations with Sudan

April 16
A bomb exploded in Istanbul, Turkey, wounding at least 31 people

April 16
A car bomb south of Baghdad killed at least 8 people

April 17
Suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, Israel, killed 8 and wounded over 50 people

April 21
King Gyanendra called Nepal's political parties to choose a prime minister

April 21
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7,7 jolted Kamchatka peninsula, Russia

April 24
23 people were killed and 62 wounded in terrorist bombings in the Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Dahab

April 24
Seven car bombs killed 8 and wounded dozens of people in Baghdad, Iraq

April 30
27 miners were killed in coal mine explosion in northwestern China

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