Year in a Minute: 2006

SBS celebrating 50 Years. This is a Year in a Minute 2006.

Tasmanian miners Todd Russell (left) and Brant Webb waving as they emerge from the mine after being trapped underground at Beaconsfield gold mine for 14 days. (AAP Image/POOL/Getty Images, Ian Waldie, File) Credit: Ian Waldie/AAPIMAGE

Australia holds its breath as Beaconsfield miners spend two weeks trapped a kilometre underground.

Racing’s Peter Brock dies when his rally car hits a tree.

A coup unfolds in Fiji,

Danish cartoons of Muhammad triggers violence killing 250,

Saddam Hussein is executed in Baghdad,

Ariel Sharon suffers a severe stroke and slips into a coma

Australia says goodbye to one of its favourites, 44-year-old wildlife expert and TV personality Steve Irwin, killed by a stingray on the Great Barrier Reef.