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Major Events of 2006
Sports
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Sports
- MLB: 2007 World Series
Boston Red Sox win 4-0 against the Colorado Rockies
-Oct 24& x2026; Colorado 1 at Boston 13
-Oct 26& x2026; Colorado 1 at Boston 2
-Oct 27& x2026;Boston 10 at Colorado 5
-Oct 28& x2026;Boston 4 at Colorado 3
- NFL: Super Bowl XLI
Indianapolis Colts win 29-17 against the Chicago Bears
-Super Bowl Box Score:
Indianapolis& x2026; 6 10 6 7= 29
Chicago& x2026;& x2026;..14 0 3 0= 17
- Professional Golf
Men's Majors winners
- The Masters: Zach Johnson& x2026;71-73-76-69= 289
- US Open: Angel Cabrera& x2026; 69-71-76-69=285
- British Open: Pádraig Harrington& x2026;277
- PGA Championship: Tiger Woods& x2026; 71-63-69-69=272
Women's Majors winners
- Kraft Nabisco Championship: Morgan Pressel& x2026; 74-72-70-69= 285
- US Women's Open: Cristie Kerr& x2026;71-72-66-70=279
- LPGA Championship: Suzann Pettersen& x2026;274 (-14)
- Weetabix Women's British Open: Lorena Ochoa & x2026;287 (-5)
Popular Songs
1 Beyonce Irreplaceable
2 Rihanna feat. Jay-Z Umbrella
3 Gwen Stefani feat. Akon The Sweet Escape
4 Fergie Big Girls Don't Cry
5 T-Pain feat. Yung Joc Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin')
6 Carrie Underwood Before He Cheats
7 Plain White T's Hey There Delilah
8 Akon feat. Snoop Dogg I Wanna Love You
9 Nelly Furtado Say It Right
10 Fergie feat. Ludacris Glamorous
Popular Movies
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No Country for Old Men - Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
- Into the Wild - Sean Penn
· Across the Universe
· Superbad
Transformers - Michael Bay
· Knocked Up
· Paranormal Activity
· Juno
· Ratatouille
· The Bourne Ultimatum
· Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Best Picture: The Departed
- Best Director: Martin Scorsese for The Departed
- Best actor in a leading role: Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland
- Best actress in a leading role: Helen Mirren for The Queen
- Best actor in a supporting role: Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine
- Best actress in a supporting role: Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls
Grammy Awards
- Record of the Year: “Not Ready to Make Nice”- Dixie Chicks
- Song of the Year: “Not Ready to Make Nice”- Dixie Chicks
- Album of the Year: Taking the Long Way- Dixie Chicks
- Best New Artist: Carrie Underwood
Nobel Prizes
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- Peace: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold Gore Jr. "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change".
- Physiology or Medicine: Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"
- Economic Sciences: Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskinand Roger B. Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"
- Chemistry: Gerhard Ertl "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"
- Physics: Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg "for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"
- Literature: Doris Lessing "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"
Pulitzer Prizes
- • Public Service: The Wall Street Journal
• Breaking News Reporting: Staff of The Oregonian, Portland
• Investigative Reporting: Brett Blackledge of The Birmingham (AL) News
• Explanatory Reporting: Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling, reporters, and Rick Loomis, photographer, of the Los Angeles Times
• Local Reporting: Debbie Cenziper of The Miami Herald
• National Reporting: Charlie Savage of The Boston Globe
• International Reporting: Staff of The Wall Street Journal
• Feature Writing: Andrea Elliott of The New York Times
• Commentary: Cynthia Tucker of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• Criticism: Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly
• Editorial Writing: Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub and Heidi Evans of New York Daily News
• Editorial Cartooning: Walt Handelsman of Newsday, Long Island, NY
• Breaking News Photography: Oded Balilty of Associated Press
• Feature Photography: Renée C. Byer of The Sacramento Bee
• Fiction: The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Drama: “Rabbit Hole” by David Lindsay-Abaire
• History: The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Biography or Autobiography: The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate (Doubleday)
• Poetry: Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin)
• General Nonfiction: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Music: Sound Grammar by Ornette Coleman
Major Events of 2006
Sports
-
Sports
- MLB: 2007 World Series
Boston Red Sox win 4-0 against the Colorado Rockies
-Oct 24& x2026; Colorado 1 at Boston 13
-Oct 26& x2026; Colorado 1 at Boston 2
-Oct 27& x2026;Boston 10 at Colorado 5
-Oct 28& x2026;Boston 4 at Colorado 3
- NFL: Super Bowl XLI
Indianapolis Colts win 29-17 against the Chicago Bears
-Super Bowl Box Score:
Indianapolis& x2026; 6 10 6 7= 29Chicago& x2026;& x2026;..14 0 3 0= 17
- Professional Golf
Men's Majors winners
- The Masters: Zach Johnson& x2026;71-73-76-69= 289
- US Open: Angel Cabrera& x2026; 69-71-76-69=285
- British Open: Pádraig Harrington& x2026;277- PGA Championship: Tiger Woods& x2026; 71-63-69-69=272
Women's Majors winners
- Kraft Nabisco Championship: Morgan Pressel& x2026; 74-72-70-69= 285
- US Women's Open: Cristie Kerr& x2026;71-72-66-70=279
- LPGA Championship: Suzann Pettersen& x2026;274 (-14)
- Weetabix Women's British Open: Lorena Ochoa & x2026;287 (-5) - MLB: 2007 World Series
Popular Songs
1 Beyonce Irreplaceable
2 Rihanna feat. Jay-Z Umbrella
3 Gwen Stefani feat. Akon The Sweet Escape
4 Fergie Big Girls Don't Cry
5 T-Pain feat. Yung Joc Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin')
6 Carrie Underwood Before He Cheats
7 Plain White T's Hey There Delilah
8 Akon feat. Snoop Dogg I Wanna Love You
9 Nelly Furtado Say It Right
10 Fergie feat. Ludacris Glamorous
Popular Movies
- No Country for Old Men - Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
- Into the Wild - Sean Penn
· Across the Universe
· Superbad
Transformers - Michael Bay· Knocked Up
· Paranormal Activity
· Juno
· Ratatouille
· The Bourne Ultimatum
· Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Best Picture: The Departed
- Best Director: Martin Scorsese for The Departed
- Best actor in a leading role: Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland
- Best actress in a leading role: Helen Mirren for The Queen
- Best actor in a supporting role: Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine
- Best actress in a supporting role: Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls
Grammy Awards
- Record of the Year: “Not Ready to Make Nice”- Dixie Chicks
- Song of the Year: “Not Ready to Make Nice”- Dixie Chicks
- Album of the Year: Taking the Long Way- Dixie Chicks
- Best New Artist: Carrie Underwood
Nobel Prizes
.
- Peace: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold Gore Jr. "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change".
- Physiology or Medicine: Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"
- Economic Sciences: Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskinand Roger B. Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"
- Chemistry: Gerhard Ertl "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"
- Physics: Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg "for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"
- Literature: Doris Lessing "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"
Pulitzer Prizes
- • Public Service: The Wall Street Journal
• Breaking News Reporting: Staff of The Oregonian, Portland
• Investigative Reporting: Brett Blackledge of The Birmingham (AL) News
• Explanatory Reporting: Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling, reporters, and Rick Loomis, photographer, of the Los Angeles Times
• Local Reporting: Debbie Cenziper of The Miami Herald
• National Reporting: Charlie Savage of The Boston Globe
• International Reporting: Staff of The Wall Street Journal
• Feature Writing: Andrea Elliott of The New York Times
• Commentary: Cynthia Tucker of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• Criticism: Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly
• Editorial Writing: Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub and Heidi Evans of New York Daily News
• Editorial Cartooning: Walt Handelsman of Newsday, Long Island, NY
• Breaking News Photography: Oded Balilty of Associated Press
• Feature Photography: Renée C. Byer of The Sacramento Bee
• Fiction: The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Drama: “Rabbit Hole” by David Lindsay-Abaire
• History: The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Biography or Autobiography: The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate (Doubleday)
• Poetry: Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin)
• General Nonfiction: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Music: Sound Grammar by Ornette Coleman
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