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- The Fields Medal is awarded to Andrei Okounkov, Grigory Perelman, Terence Tao and Wendelin Werner.
- With nearly all votes counted, the presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo heads toward a run-off election after no candidate wins a majority.
- The New Zealand All Blacks win the 2006 rugby union Tri Nations series.
- Tungurahua (2004 picture shown), a stratovolcano in Ecuador, erupts.
- A committee of the International Astronomical Union proposes a new definition of the term "planet" which would re-classify Ceres, Charon, Eris and potentially other trans-Neptunian objects as planets of the solar system.
- Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, the Māori Queen, dies in Ngaruawahia, New Zealand after a forty-year reign.
