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List of December 2006 events.
Events
- December 1 - Estonia will equalize a hammer and sickle to a swastika .
- December 2 - Manana Dzhabelia , 50 years old, the second victim of the deportation of Georgians in 2006, died in a Moscow detention center for foreign citizens.
- December 3 - at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 , the Tolmachev sisters from Russia became the winners.
- December 3 - The Russian national tennis team won the 2006 Davis Cup .
- December 4 - Russian New York Islanders striker Viktor Kozlov recognized as the best player of the week in the NHL .
- December 10 - A referendum on the first constitution of Nagorno-Karabakh was held in a calm atmosphere.
- December 10 - Scotland Yard investigators may question businessman Andrei Lugovoi today.
- December 10 - Sweden celebrates sending the first Swedish astronaut into space .
- December 10 - Oleg Maskaev defended his WBC world title.
- December 10 - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet dies . The death of Pinochet causes Chileans joy and tears.
- December 13 - Ipswich killer claims Jack the Ripper laurels. Britain is agitated by the serial killings of prostitutes. On Tuesday, in the Ipswich area (Suffolk County) , the bodies of two more prostitutes were discovered .
- December 14 - The St. Petersburg Court adjourned the ruling on the lawsuit of an advanced St. Petersburg schoolgirl who considers teaching Darwin's theory in biology classes a violation of children's rights.
- December 17 - Astronauts of the Shuttle Discovery docked to the International Space Station completed spacewalk.
- December 21 - President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov died at the age of 66. However, the opposition doubts the date of death .
- December 21 - The title of the last Harry Potter book is announced in the UK. The book should appear in the first half of 2007 .
- December 22 - The remains of General Kappel were delivered to Moscow.
- December 25 - The founder of music soul James Brown died.
- December 26 - Former US President Gerald Ford dies .
- December 30 - Saddam Hussein executed.
See also
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