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2006
The 21st Century Almanac · The 2000s

2006

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

Saddam Hussein was hanged after an Iraqi tribunal convicted him, North Korea conducted its first nuclear test, Twitter launched into a noisy new age of social media, and Pluto was demoted from planethood.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
Crash
Nobel · Literature
Orhan Pamuk "Who In The Quest For The Me
World Series
No. 1 Song
1 Daniel Powter Bad Day 2 Sean Paul Temp
Top TV
Academy · Actor
Phillip Seymour Hoffman for Capote

Major Events of 2006

1 events
Hamdan vs Rumsfeld

Sports Highlights

Champions of 2006

Champions

MLB2006: World Series St. Louis Cardinals win 4-2 against the Detroit Tigers -Oct 21... St. Louis 7 at Detroit 2 -Oct 22... St. Louis 1 at Detroit 3 -Oct 24... Detroit 0 at St. Louis 5 -Oct 26... Detroit 4 at St Louis 5 -Oct 27...Detroit 2 at St Louis 4 NFL Super Bowl XL Pittsburgh Steelers win 21-10 against Seattle Seahawks -Super Bowl Box Score Pittsburgh...0 7 7 7- 21 Seattle...... 3 0 7 0- 10 Professional Golf Men's Major Winners -The Masters: Phil Mickelson...-7 to par -
US OpenGeoff Ogilvy...+5 to par -British Open: Tiger Woods...-18 to par -PGA Championship: Tiger Woods...-18 to par Women's Major Winners -Kraft Nabisco Championship: Karrie Webb...-9 to par -US Women's Open: Annika Sorenstam -LPGA Championship: Se Ri Pak...-8 to par -Weetabix Women's British Open: Sherri Steinhauer...-7 to par

Top Music of 2006

The year on the charts

Top Songs

  1. 1 Daniel Powter Bad Day 2 Sean Paul Temperature 3 Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland Promiscuous 4 James Blunt You're Beautiful 5 Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean Hips Don't Lie 6 Natasha Bedingfield Unwritten 7 Gnarls Barkley Crazy 8 Chamillionaire feat. Krayzie Bone Ridin' 9 Justin Timberlake Sexyback 10 Beyonce feat. Slim Thug Check on It

Grammy Awards

Record of the Year
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams"- Green Day
Song of the Year
"Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own"- U2
Album of the Year
"How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb"- U2
Best New Artist
John Legend

Screen & Television

At the box office & on the air

Top Movies

  1. The Departed The Prestige 300 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest V for Vendetta The Lives of Others Casino Royale The Holiday The Fountain Childern of Men

Academy Awards

Honoring 2006
Best Picture
Crash
Best Director
Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor
Phillip Seymour Hoffman for Capote
Best Actress
Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line Best Supporting Actor: George Clooney for Syriana Best Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Peace
Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below"
Physiology or Medicine
Andrew Fire and Craig Mello "for their discovery of RNA interference-gene silencing by double-stranded RNA". Economic Sciences: Edmund S. Phelps "for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy"
Chemistry
Roger D. Kornberg "for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription"
Physics
John C. Mather and George F. Smoot "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"
Literature
Orhan Pamuk "who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures"

Pulitzer Prizes

Public Service
Times-Picayune and the Sun Herald National Reporting: James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, The New York Times International Reporting: Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley , New York Times Editorial Writing: Rick Attig and Doug Bates, The Oregonian Editorial Cartooning: Mike Luckovich , Atlanta Journal-Constitution Commentary: Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Criticism: Robin Givhan, Washington Post Feature Writing: Jim Sheeler, Rockey Mountain News Beat Reporting: Dana Priest, Washington Post Explanatory Reporting: The Chicago Tribune, Staff Investigative Reporting: Susan Schmidt, James Grimaldi, and R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post Breaking News: Staff of Times-Picayune
Fiction
Geraldine Brooks, March Biography/Auto
biography
Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, American Prometheus:The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
History
David Oshinsky, Polio: An American Story
Poetry
Claudia Emerson, Late Wife
General Nonfiction
Caroline Elkins, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Music
Yehudi Wyner, Piano Concerto: Chiavi in Mano googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1429421741137-1'); }); (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); © 1996-2022