Portal:Current events/March 2006/Sidebar

Deaths

1: Harry Browne 1: Peter Osgood 3: William Herskovic 5: Milan Babic 6: Kirby Puckett 6: Dana Reeve 7: Gordon Parks 7: Ali Farka Touré 10: Tom Fox 10: John Profumo 11: Bernie Geoffrion 11: Slobodan Milošević 13: Maureen Stapleton 13: Jimmy Johnstone 14: Lennart Meri 17: Ray Meyer 17: Oleg Cassini 19: Mohammad Ali (actor) 23: Sarah Caldwell 23: Desmond Doss 25: Richard Fleischer 25: Buck Owens 26: Paul Dana 27: Dan Curtis 27: Lyn Nofziger 27: Stanislaw Lem 28: Pro Hart 28: Caspar Weinberger 29: Henry Farrell

Events

Abramoff scandal Ariel Sharon illness Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak Black sites scandal CIA leak grand jury investigation Formation of a new Iraqi government Horn of Africa food crisis Iran's nuclear program Labor protests in France Liberal leadership race in Canada Malawi food crisis Montenegrin independence campaign Muhammad cartoons controversy NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament North Indian cyclone season Pacific typhoon season Southern Hemisphere cyclone season Southern Leyte mudslide 78th Academy Awards XVIII Commonwealth Games Malaysian Baldgate scandal NSA Spying Controversy Severe Tropical Cyclone Larry

Ongoing armed conflicts
Acholiland insurgency Arab-Israeli conflict (Al-Aqsa Intifada) Darfur conflict in Sudan Iraq War Ituri conflict in the DR Congo Ivorian Civil War Nepal Civil War Second Chechen War South Thailand insurgency

Elections
28: Israel, legislature 26: Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada 19: Belarus, Presidential 19: Benin, Presidential 18: South Australia, state election 18: Tasmania, state election 12: Colombian legislative elections 12: El Salvadoran legislative elections 11: Malta, Local Council Elections 6: Netherlands, municipal 1: South Africa, municipal

Trials

Chile: Alberto Fujimori (extradition process) Chile: Augusto Pinochet Ethiopia: 111 defendants, including leaders of the CUD and journalists, for charges related to the 2005 elections. Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal Saddam Hussein, among others Netherlands: ICTY Russia: Nur-Pashi Kulayev South Africa: Jacob Zuma 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