Date in year · 2006 · The 2000s

July 11, 2006

On July 11, 2006, mumbai train bombings: 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India. The year's #1 song was "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter. Xochitl Gomez, Summer McIntosh, Héctor Fort would arrive in the same year.

Events

1

Births

0

Deaths

3

Year

2006

2000s

Around 2006

The year in brief

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.

Read the full year of 2006 →

What happened

On July 11, 2006

  1. 2006 Mumbai train bombings: 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.

    2006 terrorist attack on the Mumbai Suburban Railway by Lashkar-e-Taiba

    The 2006 Mumbai train bombings were a series of seven bomb blasts on 11 July 2006. They took place over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai, the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the nation's financial capital, The bombs were set off in pressure cookers on trains plying on the Western Line Suburban Section of the Mumbai Division of Western Railway. The blasts killed 209 people and injured over 700 more.

Farewells

Died on July 11, 2006

Barnard Hughes American actor (1915–2006)
Bronwyn Oliver Australian sculptor (1959–2006)
John Spencer English snooker player (1935–2006)

Elsewhere that year

Other moments from 2006

The class of 2006

Others born in 2006

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

Step through

Nearby

Keep going

More to explore