Editing 2006 (section)

===February===
* [[February 4]] – Egyptian passenger ferry, {{ship|MS|al-Salam Boccaccio 98}}, sinks in the [[Red Sea]] off the coast of Saudi Arabia, killing over 1,000 people.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183906,00.html|title=Relatives Trash Company Offices After Red Sea Disaster|agency=Associated Press|date=February 6, 2006|access-date=2009-07-05|work=Fox News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106152047/https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183906,00.html|archive-date=November 6, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[February 6]] – [[Stephen Harper]] is sworn in as the [[Prime Minister of Canada]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stephen Harper |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/stephen-joseph-harper |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 10]]–[[February 26|26]] – The [[2006 Winter Olympics]] are held in [[Turin, Italy]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/10/winterolympicsturin2006.sport|title=Winter Games open in Turin|last=Associated Press|date=February 10, 2006|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=2017-02-05|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=February 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206112347/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/10/winterolympicsturin2006.sport|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[February 17]] – A [[2006 Southern Leyte mudslide|massive mudslide]] occurs in [[Southern Leyte]], Philippines killing an estimated 1,126 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ifrc.org/cgi/pdf_appeals.pl?06/MDRPH00107.pdf |title=Philippine Landslide and Flood Operations Update #7 |publisher=[[International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement|Red Cross]] |date=August 31, 2007 |access-date=2009-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090807212947/http://www.ifrc.org/cgi/pdf_appeals.pl?06%2FMDRPH00107.pdf |archive-date=August 7, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[February 22]] – [[2006 al-Askari mosque bombing]]: Explosions occur at the [[al-Askari Shrine]] in [[Samarra]], Iraq. The attack on the shrine, one of the holiest sites in [[Shia Islam]], causes the escalation of [[sectarian violence in Iraq]] into a full-scale war (the [[Iraqi Civil War (2006-2008)|Iraqi Civil War of 2006–2008]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/28/iraq1|title='1,300 dead' in Iraq sectarian violence|website=The Guardian|date=February 28, 2006 |access-date=May 25, 2022|archive-date=June 27, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627185217/https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/28/iraq1|url-status=live}}</ref>