< Portal:Current events
April 1, 2006 (Saturday)
- Marcos Pontes, Brazil's first astronaut, reaches the International Space Station. (CNN)
- A small aircraft goes missing whilst in flight towards Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with 19 people on board. It is found to have crashed near Saquarema, about 100 km from Rio. There are no survivors. (BBC)
- The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the 'British FBI', is launched in the United Kingdom. (BBC)
- First Great Western, First Great Western Link and Wessex Trains combined into the new Greater Western franchise. (BBC)
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