2006 (MMVI)
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Welcome 2006 (MMVI)
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponds to the years 5766-5767 in the Hebrew Calendar and 1426-1427 in the Islamic Calendar. It has been designated:
- The International Year of Deserts and Desertification
- The Rembrandt Year, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Netherlands‘ greatest 17th-century painter.
- The Mozart Year, celebrating the 250th birthday of the Austrian composer Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- The Tesla Year, celebrating the 150th birthday of the world known electrotechnician Nikola Tesla.
- The International Asperger’s Year, marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Hans Asperger, discoverer of Asperger’s Syndrome.
2006 in Fiction
- March 28 to March 29 - The events of the Doctor Who episodes Aliens of London and World War Three take place.
- September - The events of Doctor Who episode Boom Town take place.
- December 24 to December 25 - The events of Doctor Who episode The Christmas Invasion take place.
- DC Comics will begin its “One Year Later” comic storyline, rewriting most of their back stock of unused characters in the aftermath of the previous storyline, Infinite Crisis.
- The events of the third season of the Transformers cartoon take place.
- The events of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory take place.
- Marvel Comics has promised five ‘tentpole events’ over the course of the year: Marvel Annihilation, Marvel: The Illuminati, and three others.
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