4th » Jena Six called Six black youths assault a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana.
5th » Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
6th » NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
7th » A 2006 London tornado called tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging about 150 properties.
11th » The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran, by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.
11th » Felipe Calderón, the President of Mexico, launches a Operation Michoacán or military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War.
15th » First flight of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.
18th » The first of a 2006–2007 Malaysian floods named series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
18th » United Arab Emirates holds its United Arab Emirates parliamentary election, 2006 named first-ever elections.
26th » An Pipeline transport For oil or natural gas named oil pipeline in Lagos, Nigeria 2006 Abule Egba pipeline explosion known as explodes, killing at least 260.
29th » UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.
30th » Madrid–Barajas Airport is 2006 Madrid-Barajas Airport bombing called bombed.
30th » The Indonesian passenger ferry MV e.g Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths.
30th » Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein Execution of Saddam Hussein named is executed.