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March 2006 Timeline

March 2
USA and India signed a nuclear agreement during a visit of George W. Bush in India

March 5
The 78th Annual Academy Awards were held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood

March 7
At least 15 were killed in twin bomb explosions in Varanasi, India, the Hindu holy city

March 7
South Dakota signed into law a bill banning most abortions

March 11
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic died

March 11
Michelle Bachelet sworn in as Chile's first woman president

March 14
Israeli army raid on a Palestinian jail in the West bank town of Jericho

March 16
At least 250,000 people protested in France against a new labour laws

March 18
France won the 2006 Six Nations Championship

March 19
French police used tear gas and water cannon after protests against a new labor law turned violent

March 19
About 6,000 opposition supporters protested in Belarus' capital Minsk after Alexander Lukashenko was re-elected president

March 20
Japan won the first World Baseball Classic

March 24
ETA declared permanent cease-fire

March 24
Police in Minsk broke up a five-day protest against the re-election of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko

March 25
About half a million people protested against plans to criminalize undocumented workers in Los Angeles, California

March 28
White House chief-of-staff Andy Card resigned

March 28
The Kadima Party won the Israeli parliamentary elections

March 29
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was captured while trying to flee his home-in-exile in Nigeria and sent to Sierra Leone

March 31
French President Jacques Chirac announced he will sign a controversial youth labor contract into law but will ask for amendments

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