Portal:Current events/January 2006/Sidebar

Recent Deaths

31: Coretta Scott King 30: Wendy Wasserstein 29: Paik Nam-june 27: Johannes Rau 26: Henry McGee 24: Fayard Nicholas 24: Chris Penn 21: Ibrahim Rugova 20: Dave Lepard 19: Tony Franciosa 19: Wilson Pickett 18: Anton Rupert 15: Sheikh Jaber of Kuwait 14: Jim Gary 14: Christopher Penley 14: Mark Philo 14: Shelley Winters 10: Sidney Frank 8: Tony Banks 8: Elson Becerra 7: Heinrich Harrer 6: Lou Rawls 5: Merlyn Rees 4: Irving Layton 4: Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum 2: Steve Rogers 1: Charles Steen

Events
Ariel Sharon illness Abramoff scandal Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak Black sites scandal Horn of Africa food crisis Iran's nuclear program Malawi food crisis Muhammad Drawings controversy North Ossetia sabotages North Indian cyclone season Pacific typhoon season Southern Hemisphere cyclone season Tropical Cyclone Boloetse Tropical Cyclone Jim Winter X-Games, Aspen, CO Stormontgate

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

Elections
29: Finland, President second round 25: Palestinian Nat'l Auth., Legislature 23: Canada, Federal 22: Portugal, President 20: Iraq, Legislative 15: Chile, President runoff

Trials
Chile: Alberto Fujimori Chile: Augusto Pinochet Indonesia: Bali Nine 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.: Tom DeLay U.S.: Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling U.S.: Zacarias Moussaoui U.S.: Brian Nichols