Unix Timestamp: 1155254400
Friday, August 11. 2006, 12:00:00 AM UTC

The ICM awards Grigori Perelman the Fields Medal for proving the Poincare conjecture, one of 7 Millennium Prize Problems Perelman refuses the medal.

A resolution to end the 2006 Lebanon War is unanimously accepted by the United Nations Security Council.

Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border in Ukraine, killing 171 people, including 45 children.