December 2006 Timeline
December 1Hundreds of thousands people demonstrated in Beirut, Lebanon, demanding Fouad Siniora's resign
December 2
Three car bombs exploded in Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least 50 people and wounded 90 others
December 2
About 2 million people led by opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi demonstrated in Rome, Italy, against Romano Prodi's government
December 3
Hugo Chavez was re-elected Venezuela's president
December 5
Fiji's prime minister Laisenia Qarase was placed under house arrest by Military Commander Frank Bainimarama, who seized control over country
December 9
A fire at a Moscow drug clinic killed 45 women patients and staff
December 10
Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet died in age of 91
December 10
A fire at a mental hospital in Siberia, Russia, killed 8 people
December 11
Officially recognized as world's oldest person Elizabeth Bolden died at 116
December 14
Ban Ki-moon sworn in as the next UN secretary general at a ceremony in New York
December 17
"You" was named as Time magazine's Person of the Year for the growth and influence of user-generated content on the internet
December 18
Robert gates sworn in as the new US Defence Secretary
December 19
A Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for knowingly infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV
December 21
President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov died in age of 66
December 25
Ethiopian aircraft bombed Mogadishu airport, Somalia
December 26
An oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos killed at least 260 people and injured 60 more
December 28
Former US president Gerald Ford died in age of 93
December 30
Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was executed
December 30
The blast in the car park of Barajas Airport in Madrid, Spain, injured at least 19 people; ETA claims responsibility
December 31
A ferry with 600 people on board sank in Java Sea with several hundred casualties
December 31
Explosions in Bangkok, Thailand, killed two people and injured 20 others