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[[Image:STS-116 Launch (KSC-06PD-2750) cropped.jpg|100x100px|right|Launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery]] |
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{{*mp|December 10}} Former [[Chile]]an |
{{*mp|December 10}} Former [[Chile]]an [[President of Chile|president]] '''[[Augusto Pinochet]]''' dies one week after suffering a [[heart attack]], at age ninety-one. |
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{{*mp|December 10}} '''[[Christer Fuglesang]]''' becomes the first [[Scandinavia]]n [[astronaut]] in space as the [[Space Shuttle]] ''[[Space Shuttle Discovery|Discovery]]'' ''(pictured)'' is launched on '''[[STS-116|a mission]]''' to the [[International Space Station]]. |
{{*mp|December 10}} '''[[Christer Fuglesang]]''' becomes the first [[Scandinavia]]n [[astronaut]] in space as the [[Space Shuttle]] ''[[Space Shuttle Discovery|Discovery]]'' ''(pictured)'' is launched on '''[[STS-116|a mission]]''' to the [[International Space Station]]. |
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{{*mp|December 8}} [[Ethiopia]] begins to '''[[Ethiopian involvement in the Somali Civil War|intervene]]''' in the [[Somali Civil War (2006-present)|Somali Civil War]]. |
{{*mp|December 8}} [[Ethiopia]] begins to '''[[Ethiopian involvement in the Somali Civil War|intervene]]''' in the [[Somali Civil War (2006-present)|Somali Civil War]]. |
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Revision as of 22:37, 10 December 2006
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- Former Chilean president Augusto Pinochet dies one week after suffering a heart attack, at age ninety-one.
- Christer Fuglesang becomes the first Scandinavian astronaut in space as the Space Shuttle Discovery (pictured) is launched on a mission to the International Space Station.
- Ethiopia begins to intervene in the Somali Civil War.
- The Iraq Study Group releases its final report, describing the situation in the Iraq War as "grave and deteriorating" and making seventy-nine policy recommendations.
- The Fijian military under Commodore Frank Bainimarama takes control of the government.
- After killing nearly six hundred people in the Philippines, Typhoon Durian (Reming) strikes Vietnam, leading to over eighty more deaths.
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