Portal:Current events/February 2006/Sidebar

Deaths
3: Al Lewis 3: Romano Mussolini 4: Betty Friedan 8: Ron Greenwood 9: Sir Freddie Laker 10: Juan Soriano 11: Peter Benchley 14: Lynden David Hall 15: Sun Yun-suan 16: Ernie Stautner 20: Curt Gowdy 22: Atwar Bahjat 22: Sinnathamby Rajaratnam 24: Don Knotts 24: Dennis Weaver 25: Octavia Butler 25: Darren McGavin 27: Linda Smith 27: Robert Scott

Events

2006 Winter Olympics Abramoff scandal Ariel Sharon illness Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak Black sites scandal Dubai Ports World controversy Horn of Africa food crisis Iran's nuclear program Liberal leadership race in Canada Malawi food crisis Malaysian Baldgate scandal Muhammad cartoons controversy North Indian cyclone season NSA Spying Controversy Pacific typhoon season Philippines under state of emergency Southern Hemisphere cyclone season Southern Leyte mudslide

Wars and conflicts
Acholiland insurgency Arab-Israeli conflict (Al-Aqsa Intifada) Darfur conflict in Sudan Iraq War Ivorian Civil War Nepal Civil War Second Chechen War Second Congo War South Thailand insurgency

Elections
23: Uganda, President and Parliament 15: Tokelau, referendum on future status 12: Cape Verde, President 8: Nepal, municipality election 7: Haiti, General 5: Costa Rica, Pres. and Legislative

Trials
Chile: Alberto Fujimori (extradition process) Chile: Augusto Pinochet Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal Saddam Hussein, among others Netherlands: ICTY Slobodan Milošević trial Russia: Nur-Pashi Kulayev< UK: Leo O'Connor and David Keogh U.S.: Brian Nichols U.S.: Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling U.S.: Tom DeLay U.S.: Zacarias Moussaoui