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This article covers breaking news and events in January 2006.

Daily events

Sunday January 1, 2006

Wolfgang bowl

• Berlin / Germany : Home construction is no longer funded by the home ownership subsidy . If the start of construction was before today, the allowance can still be applied for.
• Bern / Switzerland : The SP politician Moritz Leuenberger is again Federal President . He already held the office in 2001.
• Madrid / Spain : The nationwide law on the protection of non-smokers comes into force. Smoking is therefore prohibited in office buildings, cultural institutions, shopping centers and public transport. Zones for non-smokers must be set up in larger restaurants.
• Moscow / Russia : In the Russian-Ukrainian gas dispute , the gas production company Gazprom stops deliveries to Naftohas , the national gas supplier of Ukraine .
• New York / United States : Ghana , Qatar , the Republic of Congo , Peru and Slovakia are new non-permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations .
• Sèvres / France : The International Bureau of Weights and Measures adds to 12:59 and 59  s Central European Time , a leap second in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Disruptive influences on the earth's orbit and rotation without UTC correction would mean that after 90 years the earth would only be at the point of a complete annual orbit of the sun with a delay of 60 s .
• Vienna / Austria : The Republic of Austria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from the United Kingdom . Wolfgang Schüssel takes the chairmanship of the council .

Monday January 2, 2006

• Ankara / Turkey : After the death of a 14-year-old boy, the Ministry of Health denies that the H5N1 bird flu pathogen is virulent in Turkey .
• Bad Reichenhall / Germany : When the ice rink collapsed , fifteen people were killed. The roof probably collapsed because of the large masses of snow that weighed on it during public ice skating.
• Berlin / Germany : Europe's oldest hippopotamus meatball is dead. It was born in 1952 in the Berlin Zoo and became one of the visitors' favorites there. The meatball had to be put to sleep a few hours before the turn of the year. She was 53 years old
• Berlin / Germany : The gas supply in the Federal Republic is not endangered by the dispute between Russia and Ukraine . This is what the utilities assume. Russia turned off the gas in Ukraine yesterday because of price disputes. Afterwards, the pressure on the gas pipelines in neighboring countries fell.
• Berlin / Germany : SPD boss Matthias Platzeck has spoken out in favor of a return to Prussian virtues. Platzeck wants decency, reliability and the fulfillment of duties to find their way back into Germany. In an interview, the SPD leader said that although it sounds old-fashioned, it can bring Germany forward again.
• Cologne / Germany : The German Chrobog family returns from Yemen in the evening . The former State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, his wife and their three sons were in the hands of Jeminite kidnappers for three days. According to Jürgen Chrobog, Germany did not pay a ransom for the release.
• South Pacific : The region around the Fiji Islands has been hit by a major earthquake. The epicenter of the 7.1 magnitude quake was around 100 kilometers north of Ndoi Island, the US earthquake institute announced on its website. Initially, nothing was known about possible victims or damage. The quake occurred at a depth of almost 600 kilometers. As CNN reported, a tsunami warning initially issued for the US west coast was withdrawn by the authorities.

Tuesday January 3, 2006

• Bad Reichenhall / Germany : The rescue work on the collapsed ice rink is making slow progress. Hundreds of helpers have been trying to save the missing people since the collapse. The rescue work is made more difficult by incessant snowfall. The roof of the Bad Reichenhall ice rink collapsed yesterday afternoon under the load of snow. At least 50 people are said to have been in the hall at this time.
• London / United Kingdom : A lottery winner entitled to the equivalent of 14 million euros allowed the prescribed period of six months to elapse without reporting. The profit is therefore transferred to charitable projects.
• Paris / France : The French government wants to end the state of emergency in the country. A spokeswoman said the repeal decision is expected to be made today. The state of emergency had been in effect since November because of the unrest in French suburbs.
• Stockholm / Sweden : From today, drivers have to pay tolls in the city center. During the test phase until July, each trip costs the equivalent of one euro. The city administration wants to encourage the residents to switch to bus and train.
• Vienna / Austria : The gas supply in Austria and Hungary has returned to normal. The utilities report normal pressure on the gas lines again. As a result of the Russian-Ukrainian gas dispute and the delivery freeze to Ukraine , not as much gas arrived in neighboring countries as usual yesterday.

Wednesday January 4, 2006

• Warsaw / Poland : The country wants to publish large parts of its secret files on the Warsaw Pact . Historians expect new knowledge, especially with regard to the reasons for the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968 and the imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981.
• In the countries of Slovakia , Czech Republic , Ukraine and Hungary which occurs Carpathian Convention into force.

Thursday January 5, 2006

• Jerusalem / Israel : Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is in mortal danger after a stroke . Doctors stop the bleeding in the brain after several emergency operations . Since then, Sharon has been in a coma .

Friday January 6, 2006

• Bischofshofen / Austria : Janne Ahonen from Finland wins the 54th Four Hills Tournament like last year before Roar Ljøkelsøy from Norway .
• Istanbul / Turkey : Another child with H5N1 bird flu has died. This is a younger sister of the two siblings who died a few days ago.

Saturday 7th January 2006

• Baghdad / Iraq : An American journalist is kidnapped and her local driver is killed in the process.
• Chemnitz / Germany : The Höhner win the folk music crown .

Monday January 9, 2006

• Nouakchott / Mauritania : On the ninth stage of the Paris-Dakar Rally over 599 kilometers from Nouakchott to Kiffa in Mauritania, the 42-year-old Australian KTM rider Andy Caldecott succumbed to his injuries after a fall. The Dakar sports director Etienne Lavigne named a cervical vertebrae as the cause of death . According to the sports director, Caldecott was dead on the spot.
• Strasbourg / France : Les Verts demand a ban on the distribution of pork soup to the needy. The pork ingredient was added by the initiator of the campaign, the xenophobic group Alsace d'abord ( German:  Das Alsace first ), in order to exclude Jews and Muslims from helping.

Tuesday January 10, 2006

• Washington, DC / United States : The federal government of the United States has defended the controversial Guantánamo prison camp in Cuba following criticism from Chancellor Angela Merkel . Foreign Office spokesman Sean McCormack said on Monday that the camp at Guantanamo Base was set up for a very specific reason: "It keeps people who are very dangerous away from civilized society." If the detainees were released, they would resume their fight immediately, McCormack said. The US is currently holding 520 “terror suspects” in the prison on the eastern tip of Cuba, most of them from Afghanistan or Pakistan . Many of them have been detained for years without charge or legal advice. Washington regards them as "enemy combatants" who are not granted prisoner-of-war rights.

Wednesday January 11, 2006

Guantanamo, watchtower

• Berlin / Germany : The Dance - DJ Markus spoon , artist name DJ Spoon , is found dead at the age of 39 years in his Berlin apartment. The cause of death of the Frankfurt native is believed to be a heart attack. DJ Spoon was a pioneering DJ of the German techno movement.
• Guantanamo / Cuba : Accompanied by persistent criticism of the detention conditions and length and allegations that detainees no war captured by international law are, take the US Agencies of the trials of two inmates of the camp again. One of the accused is 19-year-old Yemeni Ali Hamsa Ahmad el Bahlul, whose father , who was killed in Pakistan, was one of Al-Qaeda's most important donors, according to the USA . The 19-year-old is accused of having participated in the preparation of acts of terrorism as a member of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network , and of killing a US military doctor with a hand grenade in Afghanistan .
• London / United Kingdom : On the fourth anniversary of the establishment of the prison camp in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Amnesty International is renewing and deepening allegations of torture it had already made the previous year.
• Zurich / Switzerland : The Zürcher Zeitung SonntagsBlick reports on a fax from the Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit to his London ambassador intercepted by the Swiss secret service in November 2005, which is interpreted as confirmation of illegal US practices in its “ war on terror ” on European soil can. The Foreign Minister literally: According to “own sources, 23 Iraqi and Afghan citizens were actually interrogated at the Mihail Kogalniceanu base near the city of Constanza on the Black Sea”. The existence of similar interrogation centers in Ukraine, Kosovo, Macedonia and Bulgaria and a flight of prisoners to the Polish base in Szymany are also mentioned.

Thursday January 12, 2006

• Istanbul / Turkey : In the morning the attacker Mehmet Ali Ağca is released from prison . On May 13, 1981 on St. Peter's Square in Rome, he seriously injured Pope John Paul II, who died in April 2005, with several gunshots. In Italy, at the Pope's request, Ağca was pardoned after 19 years in prison, even though he had been sentenced to life imprisonment. Two years earlier he had shot and killed Abdu Ipekci, the editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper "Milliyet". In 2000 he was extradited to Turkey and sentenced again to life imprisonment, which was commuted to 10 years imprisonment through an amnesty . Due to his good conduct, he has now been released after five years in prison.
• Mena / Saudi Arabia : During the annual " Hajj " pilgrimage in the city of Mena, a mass panic occurred in which at least 345 people were killed. Tens of thousands of people had gathered there to perform the symbolic stoning of the devil . This ritual is part of the pilgrimage to Mecca . In 2003 , 244 people were trampled to death in a mass panic . In 1990 there were more than 1,000. Saudi Arabia had tried to ensure more security after the most recent disasters . Around 60,000 security guards were deployed.
• Munich / Germany : According to information from the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the TV magazine Panorama , two agents of the Federal Intelligence Service moved into the French embassy in Baghdad in Iraq three days before the start of the Iraq war , although the German Bundestag had previously voted against German participation in the Iraq war. A former employee of the US Department of Defense rated the German help as "very important".
• Paris / France : The European space navigation system Galileo has passed the first trial phase. Two weeks after the launch, the Galileo test satellite Giove-A sent the first navigation signals.

Friday January 13, 2006

Angela Merkel visits George W. Bush

• Geneva / Switzerland : According to Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty , the European countries have known about the secret prisons of the United States in Europe for at least two years . For two to three years, the countries have known exactly what is going on here, Marty said on Swiss television on Friday evening . Nevertheless, the European governments remained "shockingly passive". Some countries have actively cooperated with the USA, others have accepted the secret prisons of the US secret service CIA , and still others have simply looked the other way, criticized the Swiss MP, who heads the committee of inquiry in the Council of Europe .
• Strasbourg / France : The authorities prohibit members of a xenophobic group from serving a soup with pork to the needy by prohibiting them from gathering in front of the Strasbourg train station.
• Washington, DC / United States : Chancellor Angela Merkel ( CDU ) has sharply criticized the resumption of the Iranian nuclear program . The international community will not be intimidated by countries like Iran, she said after her conversation with US President George W. Bush in Washington on Friday. From the German point of view in particular, the Iranian words against Israel are "completely unacceptable". Bush said the world must not allow an Iranian atomic bomb to be developed. This is particularly true in view of the threats from Tehran against Israel.

Saturday January 14, 2006

• Atlanta / United States , London / United Kingdom : Broadcasters BBC and CNN cite statements by the Pakistani armed forces that an air strike by the United States armed forces failed to kill deputy leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization Aiman ​​az-Zawahiri . Eighteen residents of the Pakistani village of Damadola were killed, and the United States armed forces deny responsibility.
• Hamburg / Germany : The magazine Der Spiegel repeats the claim that the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) provided the armed forces of the United States with militarily usable data during the Iraq war . Since the accusations emerged, former US military officials have denied that the BND "directly" supported target planning.
• Islamabad / Pakistan : The Pakistani government has lodged a sharp protest against the air strike on its territory in the USA . Foreign Secretary Riaz Khan have US - Ambassador summoned Ryan Crocker and a protest note handed, so ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam on Saturday to AFP . Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid condemned the US attack, which left at least 18 dead, as "highly condemnable". He deeply regrets that so many civilians were killed in the incident.

Sunday January 15, 2006

• Nablus / Palestinian Territories : Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian woman and her son. The incident occurred on Sunday morning in a village in the Nablus region in the north of the West Bank, according to security sources.
• Washington, DC / United States : After seven years in space, the transport capsule of the space probe " Stardust " landed on parachutes in the Utah desert at 11:15 am CET to the applause of the NASA scientists involved . In the capsule is cometary dust that "Stardust" collected from the depths of the solar system . For the first time in three decades, a spacecraft brought material back to Earth from space . The mission cost 212 million US dollars .

Monday January 16, 2006

Michelle Bachelet

• Beverly Hills / United States : In the 63rd ceremony of the Golden Globe Awards , the film gets Brokeback Mountain of American- Taiwanese director Ang Lee the award in the prestigious category Best Picture - Drama and three other trophies.
• Monrovia / Liberia : For the first time in the history of the African continent, a woman is sworn in as the elected head of state. Economics expert Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has promised to work for reconciliation and reconstruction in the country. Civil war raged there for 14 years . The American First Lady Laura Bush and numerous African heads of state took part in the celebration in Monrovia .
• Santiago / Chile : Michelle Bachelet is the country's first female president. Michelle Bachelet from the concertación won the runoff election on Sunday Chilean time with 54 percent, followed by Piñera with 46 percent. It replaces President Ricardo Lagos from the same alliance ( presidential elections in Chile (2005/2006) ).

Tuesday January 17, 2006

• Berlin / Germany : Heide Simonis , the former Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, takes over the official duties of UNICEF in Germany.

Thursday January 19, 2006

• Paris / France : The statements by French President Jacques Chirac that he wanted to use nuclear weapons against countries that support terrorism are provoking numerous reactions ( more ).
• Taipei / Taiwan : President Chen Shui-bian appoints the former head of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Su Tseng-chang , as the new prime minister.

Friday January 20, 2006

Whale rescue attempts in the Thames

• Cairo / Egypt : Host Egypt wins the opening game of the 25th African Cup of Nations 3-0 against Libya .
• London / United Kingdom : A whale is sighted in the Thames . The animal was lost in the river. Despite all rescue attempts, he dies two days later from excessive stress.

Sunday January 22, 2006

Evo Morales

• Kathmandu / Nepal : New clashes between Maoists and the police lead to the deaths of 23 people, including 17 insurgents. The Maoists are demanding that King Gyanendra withdraw completely from politics. The disputes have been going on for around ten years.
• La Paz / Bolivia : The new President Evo Morales is introduced into office. The socialist “peasant leader” is the first Indian to head the South American country. During the election campaign , Morales announced that he would nationalize the gas and oil reserves and legalize the cultivation of the coca bush because it is the livelihood of many farmers.
• Lisbon / Portugal : Conservative Aníbal Cavaco Silva receives more than 50 percent of the vote in the presidential election, according to an interim result of the election commission. After counting almost 93 percent of the polling stations, Cavaco Silva had 50.89 percent of the vote. Since the polling stations that have not yet been counted were in the big cities, some commentators did not rule out that the candidate still missed an absolute majority and that a runoff election might be necessary.

Monday January 23, 2006

• Germany : With temperatures as low as minus 34 degrees, the night of the 22nd to the 23rd is the coldest day so far in winter 2005/06. Nationwide, at least four people had frozen to death since January 22nd. The cold spell from Russia also reached France , the Czech Republic , Romania , Austria , Hungary , Greece and Turkey . The situation in Poland remains particularly dire . 150 people have frozen to death there since the beginning of winter, at least 21 on weekends 21/22 alone. January.
• Nairobi / Kenya : A five-story building collapses in the Kenyan capital. At least two people are killed and about 60 injured. Hours after the collapse, dozens of people are still buried under the rubble. The cause of the collapse is still unclear.
• Podgorica / Montenegro : Probably due to a failure of the brakes, a train crashed near the capital. All of the wagons fall into a 100 meter deep gorge. At least 39 travelers are killed and 135 injured.
• Tenerife / Spain : In La Laguna , the Bishop's Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, burns down. The building dates from the 17th century.

Tuesday January 24, 2006

• Ahvaz / Iran : In the western Iranian city eight people are killed by two bomb explosions and 46 others are injured. President Mahmoud Ahmadineschād originally wanted to visit a religious institution in Ahvaz today, but canceled the trip at short notice. There is no connection between the attacks and his person, he explains after the incidents.
• Baiji / Iraq : According to the Iraqi police, two German engineers were abducted from an oil refinery in Baiji. The Federal Foreign Office is setting up a crisis team.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : According to a jury, “redundancy productivity” is the bad word of 2005.
• Ottawa / Canada : The Conservative Party of Canada won the parliamentary elections, but missed an absolute majority. Stephen Harper is expected to be the new Prime Minister .

Wednesday January 25, 2006

Badly damaged trees

• Burbank / United States : The media group Disney takes over the manufacturer of computer-animated films Pixar through a share swap amounting to 7.4 billion US dollars .
• Davos / Switzerland : The World Economic Forum opens its five-day meeting this year under the motto “Creative imperative”.
• Germany : In Germany, about every third treetop is thinned due to illness. The forest condition report particularly addresses the deteriorated condition of the oaks .
• Menlo Park / United States : The Internet - search engine company Google Inc. is in the People's Republic of China offered in the future in a censored version. Chinese laws and regulations are cited as the reason.
• Vatican City : The first encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI. will be published. It bears the title “ Deus caritas est ”.

Thursday January 26, 2006

The increase in the average annual temperature on earth is officially proven

• Berlin / Germany : The German Bundestag re- elects Marianne Birthler as Federal Commissioner for the Stasi files with a large majority .
• Berlin / Germany : The service union ver.di announces strikes in the public service of the federal states and municipalities to protest against an extension of working hours.
• Palestinian Territories : The Hamas list appears to have won 76 of the 132 seats in the general election in the Palestinian Autonomous Territories. Ahmad Qurai ( Fatah ) announced his resignation.
• According to NASA, 2005 was the warmest year worldwide since climate records began over 100 years ago; greenhouse gases are responsible .

Friday January 27, 2006

Africa: Countries with high AIDS rates in red

• Africa : There are now 15 million AIDS orphans under the age of 15 on the continent . In some areas of southern Africa more than 30% of the population is infected with HIV .
• Banda Sea / Indonesia : In the Indian Ocean , almost 200 km south of the city of Ambon, there is a severe seaquake with a magnitude of 7.7 M _w .
• Darfur / Sudan : There is renewed fighting in the crisis region. 180,000 people have died since the conflict broke out.
• New Delhi / India : The country appoints the US ambassador after he questioned the sale of civilian nuclear technology if India does not vote against Iran in the IAEA .
• Palestinian Territories : Although not all votes in the autonomous territories have been counted, it is certain that Hamas will receive an absolute majority. The previously ruling Fatah party admits its defeat and Hamas offers Fatah cooperation in the future government.
• Beijing / China : The Chinese economy's demand for steel will grow by 10% in 2006 according to its own statements. In 2005 the growth was 20%.
• Rotterdam / Netherlands : The steel company Mittal is making a takeover offer to the shareholders of Arcelor . Mittal is ready to spend $ 40 billion on this . If the offer is accepted, the world's largest steel manufacturer would be created.

Saturday January 28, 2006

• Berlin / Germany : Federal Labor Minister Franz Müntefering calls for the retirement age to be completely changed to 67 by 2029 at the latest .
• Caracas / Venezuela : President Hugo Chavez is threatening the US government with the arrest of US officials if they gather information about the Venezuelan army on the spot.
• Chorzów / Poland : After the roof of an exhibition hall collapsed, at least 60 dead were recovered. At the time of the accident, up to 1,000 people are said to have been in the building.
• Hamburg / Germany : The British financial investor David Montgomery has also acquired Hamburger Morgenpost after taking over the Berlin publishing house .

Sunday January 29, 2006

• Helsinki / Finland : The incumbent Tarja Halonen wins the runoff in the Finnish presidential election against her conservative challenger Sauli Niinistö .
• Copenhagen , Viby / Denmark : In protest against the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed published in the newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September 2005, Libya has announced the closure of its embassy in Denmark. Jyllands-Posten prints a statement in Arabic that the cartoons do not constitute a “campaign against Islam ”.
• Punjab / Pakistan : In the Punjab province, a train with around 400 passengers derails and falls into a ravine. At least 3 people die and several are injured.
• According to a report by the ARD wants German government two at the delivery to the firing of nuclear equippable cruise missiles suitable submarines of the Dolphin-class submarine to Israel hold.

Monday January 30, 2006

The melting of polar ice masses continues

• The climate change has a British study found very thought much more dramatic consequences than previously.

Tuesday January 31, 2006

• Nuremberg / Germany : In Germany, the number of unemployed in January rose to over 5 million for the first time in a year. The unemployment rate reaches 12.1%.
• Washington, DC / United States : The Senate elects Samuel Alito as Supreme Court Justice . He will replace Judge Sandra Day O'Connor .

See also

• Nekrolog January 2006 for deaths that month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in January
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in January

Web links

Bavaria in January 2006

Commons : January 2006  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Article Published January 2006  - In The News

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Abolition of the home ownership allowance from 2006 onwards. In: taspo.de . December 18, 2005, accessed November 12, 2018 . 
2. ↑ History of the Federal Presidium: Federal Presidents. In: admin.ch . Retrieved February 22, 2018 . 
3. ^ Countries Elected Members of the Security Council. In: un.org . Retrieved February 25, 2018 . 
4. ↑ UTC Time Step on the 1st of January 2006. In: obspm.fr . July 4, 2005, accessed November 9, 2019 . 
5. ^ Presidency of the Council of the European Union. In: cvce.eu . July 28, 2016, accessed January 30, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Four Hills Tournament. In: ifosta.de, Jörg Thomas. Accessed December 31, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Coming out in Hollywood. In: Berliner Morgenpost . January 18, 2006, accessed March 20, 2018 . 
8. ^ Egypt defeats Libya 3-0. In: athlet.org. January 20, 2006, accessed May 30, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Wikinews: Whale sighted in London
10. ↑ Wikinews: London whale is dead
11. ↑ Wikinews: 23 dead after Maoists clashed with the police
12. ↑ Wikinews: UNESCO World Heritage Site destroyed by fire
13. ↑ Eight killed in Iran bomb attacks. In: bbc.co.uk . January 25, 2006, accessed August 11, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Wikinews: Pope publishes his first encyclical: deus caritas est
15. ↑ afm.nl : Mittal Steel Announces Offer for Arcelor ( Memento from September 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
16. ^ Intelligence Note. In: nyclu.org, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York City Police Department material . 2006, accessed on August 11, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Allah and Humor. In: The time . February 1, 2006, accessed June 15, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Roll Call Vote 109th Congress - 2nd Session. In: senate.gov . January 31, 2006, accessed March 20, 2018 .