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August 20, 2006

On August 20, 2006, sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP S. Sivamaharajah is shot dead at his home in Tellippalai. The year's #1 song was "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter. Xochitl Gomez, Summer McIntosh, Héctor Fort would arrive in the same year.

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2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2006th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 6th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2000s decade.

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On August 20, 2006

  1. 2006 Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP S. Sivamaharajah is shot dead at his home in Tellippalai.

    1983–2009 Sri Lankan internal conflict

    The Sri Lankan civil war was fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. Beginning on 23 July 1983, it was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam led by Velupillai Prabhakaran. The LTTE fought to create an independent Tamil state called Tamil Eelam in the north-east of the island in response to continuous discrimination and violent persecution against Sri Lankan Tamils by the predominantly Sinhalese government of Sri Lanka.

Farewells

Died on August 20, 2006

Bryan Budd Recipient of the Victoria Cross
Joe Rosenthal American photographer (1911–2006)
S. Sivamaharajah 20th-century Sri Lankan Tamil journalist and politician

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Xochitl Gomez 2006– American actress
Summer McIntosh 2006– Canadian swimmer
Héctor Fort 2006– Spanish footballer
Kimi Antonelli 2006– Italian racing driver
Kang Ju-hyeok 2006– South Korean footballer
Cooper Flagg 2006– American basketball player

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