What Happened In May 2006 In History

Historical Events for May, 2006

• 1st » The Puerto Rico e.g Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow.
• 5th » The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
• 12th » May 2006 São Paulo violence called Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.
• 12th » Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, Iran newspaper cockroach cartoon controversy called resulting in massive riots throughout the country.
• 13th » 2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
• 17th » The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany CV-34 6 is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
• 18th » The post 2006 democracy movement in Nepal named Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the Kingdom of Nepal e.g monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
• 20th » 2006 Dhaka strikes called Dhaka wildcat strikes: A series of massive strikes begin, involving nearly 1.8 million garment workers in Bangladesh.
• 21st » The Republic of Montenegro holds a Montenegrin independence referendum, 2006 named referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.
• 23rd » Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland (Alaska) or Mount Cleveland erupts.
• 27th » The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta (city) e.g Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.

Famous Deaths for May 2006

• 1st » Big Hawk, American rapper (Screwed Up Click) (b. 1969)
• 1st » Rob Lacey, English actor and author (b. 1962)
• 2nd » Louis Rukeyser, American journalist (b. 1933)
• 3rd » Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet (b. 1921)
• 3rd » Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (b. 1949)
• 3rd » Earl Woods, American colonel, baseball player, and author (b. 1932)
• 5th » Naushad Ali, Indian composer and producer (b. 1919)
• 6th » Lillian Asplund, American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (b. 1906)
• 6th » Shigeru Kayano, Japanese activist (b. 1926)
• 6th » Grant McLennan, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Go-Betweens and Jack Frost (band) called Jack Frost) (b. 1958)
• 6th » Lorne Saxberg, Canadian journalist (b. 1958)
• 7th » Richard Carleton, Australian journalist (b. 1943)
• 7th » Joan C. Edwards, American singer (b. 1918)
• 7th » Machiko Soga, Japanese actress (b. 1943)
• 8th » Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer (b. 1938)
• 10th » Soraya (musician) e.g Soraya, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1969)
• 10th » Val Guest, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 10th » Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (b. 1917)
• 10th » A. M. Rosenthal, Canadian-American journalist (b. 1922)
• 11th » Yossi Banai, Israeli singer and actor (b. 1932)
• 11th » Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
• 11th » Frankie Thomas, American actor (b. 1921)
• 12th » Hussein Maziq, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1918)
• 12th » Gillespie V. Montgomery, American general and politician (b. 1920)
• 13th » Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian and scholar (b. 1923)
• 13th » Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Heatwave (band) called Heatwave) (b. 1949)
• 14th » Lew Anderson, American actor and saxophonist (b. 1922)
• 14th » Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
• 14th » Eva Norvind, Mexican actress, director, and producer (b. 1944)
• 17th » Cy Feuer, American director, producer, and composer (b. 1911)
• 17th » Eric Forth, Scottish-English politician, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons (b. 1944)
• 17th » Nichola Goddard, Papua New Guinean-Canadian captain (b. 1980)
• 18th » Andrew Martinez, American activist (b. 1972)
• 19th » Freddie Garrity, English singer and actor (Freddie and the Dreamers) (b. 1940)
• 21st » Spencer Clark (racing driver) named Spencer Clark, American race car driver (b. 1987)
• 21st » Katherine Dunham, American dancer, choreographer, and author (b. 1909)
• 21st » Cherd Songsri, Thai director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 21st » Billy Walker (musician) named Billy Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929)
• 22nd » Heather Crowe, Canadian waitress and activist (b. 1945)
• 22nd » Lee Jong-wook, South Korean diplomat (b. 1945)
• 23rd » Clifford Antone, American businessman (b. 1949)
• 23rd » Lloyd Bentsen, American politician, 69th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1921)
• 23rd » Ian Copeland, Syrian-American talent agent (b. 1949)
• 23rd » Kazimierz Górski, Polish footballer and manager (b. 1921)
• 24th » Jesús Ledesma Aguilar, Mexican murderer (b. 1963)
• 24th » Henry Bumstead, American art director and production designer (b. 1915)
• 24th » Claude Piéplu, French actor (b. 1923)
• 24th » Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician and educator (b. 1930)
• 25th » Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 26th » Édouard Michelin (born 1963) e.g Édouard Michelin, French businessman (b. 1963)
• 27th » Rob Borsellino, American journalist (b. 1949)
• 27th » Paul Gleason, American actor (b. 1939)
• 27th » Craig Heyward, American football player (b. 1966)
• 27th » Alex Toth, American illustrator and animator (b. 1928)
• 27th » Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor and composer (b. 1944)
• 28th » Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian ski jumper and author (b. 1920)
• 29th » Jacques Bouchard, Canadian businessman (b. 1930)
• 29th » Steve Mizerak, American Pool (cue sports) known as pool player (b. 1944)
• 30th » Shohei Imamura, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 30th » David Lloyd (botanist) known as David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
• 30th » Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917)
• 31st » Ryan Bennett (sportscaster) named Ryan Bennett, American sportscaster (b. 1970)
• 31st » Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Spanish sculptor (b. 1933)
• 31st » Raymond Davis, Jr., American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize in Physics known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
• 31st » Lula Mae Hardaway, American songwriter (b. 1930)

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