2006

The following page includes events that have happened concerning the United States in 2006:

January

 * January 9th: Vice President Dick Cheney is hospitalized after experiencing shortness of breath. The White House says that this was a side effect of a drug that Vice President Cheney was taking to treat a chronic infection on his foot.

February

 * February 5th: The Super Bowl XL occurs, and the Pittsburgh Steelers won.
 * February 11th: Vice President Cheney accidentally shoots a lawyer while hunting in southern Texas.

March

 * March 2nd: The $10 bill is colorized and is released.
 * March 9th: NASA's Cassini–Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a liquid shooting on Saturn's moon Enceladus, leaving to the possiblity that water also exists outside of Earth.
 * March 25th: The Capitol Hill Massacre in Seattle, Washington occurs, leaving 7 killed.

April

 * April 29th: Anti-war protests occur in New York City as they march down Broadway, marking the 3rd anniversary of the Iraq War.

May

 * May 1st: The Great American Boycott occurs nationwide as protesters fight for immigration rights.
 * May 5th: Fiat announces that Alfa Romeo will return to the United States 2 years from now.

June

 * June 7th: Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and seven of his men are killed in a US air raid.
 * June 23rd: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrests 7 men in Miami, Florida, who are accused of planning to bomb the Sears Tower, and cause other attacks in Miami.

July

 * July 10th: Henry Paulson is inaugurated as the new Secretary of Treasury.

August

 * August 28th: A Greyhound bus carrying 52 people from New York City to Montreal crashes on Interstate 87 (I-87) near Elizabethtown, New York, killing 5, and injuring over 47.
 * August 29th: The United States recalls the 1st anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

September

 * September 11th: The United States recalls the 5th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York City.

October

 * October 6th: A waste plant near Apex, North Carolina explodes, releasing chlorine gas into the air, resulting thousands to evacuate, and 200 hospitalized.
 * October 12th: An unusual snowstorm hits Buffalo, New York, leaving over 40,000 with no electricity, and killing 13.

November

 * November 6th: Mid-term elections occur, and the Democrats gain control in both houses of Congress.
 * November 17th: Sony's PlayStation 3 is released in the USA.
 * November 19th: Nintendo's Wii is released in the USA.

December

 * December 18th: Robert Gates is inaugurated as the new Secretary of Defense.
 * December 26th: Former President Gerald Ford dies at the age of 93 at his house in Rancho Mirage, California.