Portal:Current events/July 2006/Sidebar

Armed conflicts
	Acholiland insurgency; Arab–Israeli conflict (al-Aqsa Intifada) Operation Summer Rains; ; Chadian–Sudanese conflict; Darfur conflict in Sudan; Iraq War; Ituri conflict in the DR Congo; Ivorian Civil War; Nepal Civil War; Second Chechen War; South Thailand insurgency;

Deaths
	1: Ryutaro Hashimoto; 1: Fred Trueman; 2: Herty Lewites; 2: Jan Murray; 3: Jack Smith; 3: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; 5: Kenneth Lay; 6: Kasey Rogers; 7: Rudi Carrell; 7: Syd Barrett; 8: June Allyson; 9: Alan Senitt; 9: Shamil Basayev; 11: Barnard Hughes; 12: Hubert Lampo; 12: Kurt Kreuger; 13: Red Buttons; 14: Carrie Nye; 15: Robert H. Brooks; 16: Bob Orton; 16: Win Rockefeller; 17: Mickey Spillane; 19: Jack Warden; 20: Lim Kim San; 21: Mako Iwamatsu; 21: Ta Mok; 23: Frederick Mosteller; 26: Jessie Gilbert; 30: Pierre Vidal-Naquet;

Events
	32nd G8 summit; Atlantic hurricane season; Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak; Black sites scandal; Chilean student protests; Cole Inquiry; East Timor military and political crisis; Horn of Africa food crisis; Immigration law debates in the US; Iran's nuclear program; Israel–Lebanon crisis; Mumbai train bombings; New Jersey State Government shutdown; North Indian cyclone season; Northeastern Ontario derecho; NSA warrantless surveillance controversy; Operación Puerto doping case; Pacific hurricane season; Pacific typhoon season; Southern Hemisphere cyclone season; Tour de France; Wimbledon Tennis Championships; World Cup 2006, Germany;

Elections
5: Macedonia, Parliament 28-30: Seychelles 30: DR Congo, General (President and Legislature) 30: São Tomé and Príncipe, President

Trials
Chile: Alberto Fujimori (extradition) Chile: Augusto Pinochet Ethiopia: 111 defendants, including leaders of the CUD and journalists, on charges related to the 2005 elections. Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal Saddam Hussein, among others Netherlands: ICC Thomas Lubanga Netherlands: ICTY Sierra Leone: SCfSL Charles Taylor UK: Leo O'Connor & David Keogh U.S.: Brian Nichols U.S.: Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling (sentencing) U.S.: Tom DeLay

Holidays and observances
1: HKSAR Establishment Day (Hong Kong) 1: Canada Day (Canada) 4: Independence Day (United States) 5: Saints Cyril and Methodius Day (Czech Republic, Slovakia) 5: Independence Day (Venezuela) 5: Tynwald Day (Isle of Man) 6: Jan Hus Day (Czech Republic) 6: Statehood Day (Lithuania) 7: Ivan Kupala (Russia) 7: Tanabata (Japan) 9: National Day of Commemoration (Ireland) 11-13: Naadam (Mongolia) 11: World Population Day 11: Flemish Day (Flemish Region, Belgium) 12: The Twelfth (Northern Ireland) 13: Seventeenth of Tammuz (Judaism) 13=15: Bon Festival begins (Japan) 14: Bastille Day (France) 15: Men's Day (Brazil) 17: Marine Day (Japan) 17: Constitution Day (Korea) 19: President's Day (Botswana) 20: Friends' Day (Argentina) 21: National holiday (Belgium) 23: Revolution Day (Egypt) 23: Parents' Day (United States) 24: Pioneer Day (Utah) 24: Simón Bolívar's Birthday (Ecuador, Venezuela) 29: Ólavsøka (Faroe Islands) 31: Ka Hae Hawai‘i Day (Hawaii) 31: Qi Xi (traditional Chinese festival)

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