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Everything about 1906 totally explainedYear 1906 ( MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday
of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).
Table of contents
Events of 1906
January - February
March - April
March 10 - Explosion in coal mine in Courrières, France kills 1060.
March 15 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.
March 17 - Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
March 18 - Traian Vuia flies a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft.
March 27 - The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg by Elizabeth Parker and Arthur Oliver Wheeler.
April 7 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
April 14 - First service held at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles, CA by W.J. Seymour in a series later known as the Azusa Street Revival.
April 18 - The 1906 San Francisco earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3000, with 225,000-300,000 left homeless, $350 million in damages.
April 23 - In Tsarist Russia, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.
May - June
May
June 6 - Durham & South Carolina Railroad operates its first revenue train, Bonsal to Durham, North Carolina.
June 7 - The RMS Lusitania is launched in Glasgow. It is the world's largest ship.
June 8 - Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
June 9- June 10 - Riots in Stockholm, Ladugårsdgärden - 50 policemen injured.
June 22 - Haakon VII and Maud of Wales are crowned rulers of Norway.
June 25 - Harry K. Thaw shoots architect Stanford White.
June 29 - Mesa Verde declared a National Park.
June 30 - United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
July - August
July 1 - Sporting Clube de Portugal founded.
July 6 - Second Geneva Convention.
July 12 - Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer hastily and wrongly convicted of treason in 1899, is exonerated. He is reinstalled in the French Army July 21, ending the "Dreyfus Affair" that exposed anti-Semitism in French society.
August 16 - A magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Valparaíso, Chile leaves approximately 20,000 dead.
August 22 - The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, is manufactured.
August 23 - Unable to control a rebellion in the newly-formed Cuban republic, Pres. Tomás Estrada Palma requests U.S. intervention.
September - October
September 5 - Brandbury Robinson throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
September 18 - Typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 persons in Hong Kong.
September 22 - Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia. At least 27 people are killed and the black-owned business district is severely damaged.
September 24 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument.
September 26 - The first concert of the Telharmonium, the first music synthesizer, is presented at Telharmonic Hall, Broadway at 39th St., New York City.
September 30 - The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team piloted the balloon "United States" landed in Fylingdales, Yorkshire.
October 1
October 6 - The Majlis of Iran convenes for the first time.
October 11 - San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
October 16 - Imposter Wilhelm Voigt impersonates a Prussian officer and takes over city hall in Köpenick for a short time, amusing all of Germany and other countries.
October 19 - Great fire of Selby:Abbey nearly burnt to ashes
October 23 - Aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off on Bagatelle in France and flies 60 meters (200 feet).
October 28 - Creation of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust in Congo.
November - December
November 3 - SOS becomes an international distress signal.
November 9 - US President Theodore Roosevelt leaves for a trip to Panama to inspect the construction progress of the Panama Canal (the first time a sitting President of the United States makes an official trip outside of the United States).
November 22 - Russian Prime Min. Peter Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.
December 2 - HMS Dreadnought commissioned. First all-big-gun warship.
December 4 - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter organization established for African Americans, is founded at Cornell University.
December 6 - Creation of district of Chimbote.
December 9 - Grace Murray Hopper, pioneer computer scientist, is born in New York City, New York.
December 10 - Pres. Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating peace in the Russo-Japanese War (1905).
December 14 - The world's first submarine, the Unterseeboot 1, enters the German navy.
December 24 - Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
December 26 - The world's first feature film, "The Story of the Kelly Gang", is released.
December 30 - The All-India Muslim League, a political organization that represented the interests of Indian Muslims, is formed.
Undated
Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunization for tuberculosis first developed.
Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior.
Construction begins on the current Great Mosque of Djenné.
The muffuletta sandwich is invented in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Belgian shopkeeper Edgar Everaert creates Club Union Football(soccer) team.
The Brown Dog statue is erected in Battersea.
Births
January-February
January 11 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d. 2008)
January 14 - William Bendix, American actor (d. 1964)
January 15 - Edna Staebler, Canadian author (d. 2006)
January 21 - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007)
January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)
February 4
February 10
February 18 - Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
February 26 - Madeleine Carroll, British actress (d. 1987)
February 28 - Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947)
March-April
March 1 - Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000)
March 4
March 6 - Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (d. 1978)
March 7
March 12 - Yin Shun, Chinese Buddhist master (d. 2005)
March 16
March 19 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (d. 1962)
March 20
March 26 - Rafael Méndez, Mexican-born trumpet virtuoso (d. 1981)
March 31 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
April 1 - Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer (d. 1989)
April 4 - John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (d. 1995)
April 9 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)
April 13 - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
April 22 - Eddie Albert, American actor, gardener and humanitarian activist (d. 2005)
April 25 - William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997)
April 28
May-June
May 3 - Mary Astor, Academy Award winning American actress and writer (d. 1987)
May 6 - André Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998)
May 8 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d. 1977)
May 11 - Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (d. 1980)
May 12 - Maurice Ewing, American geophysicist and oceanographer (d. 1974)
May 15 - Humberto Delgado, Portuguese general and politician (d. 1965)
May 16
May 17 - Zinka Milanov, Croatian-born soprano (d. 1989)
May 19 - Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor (d. 2007)
May 20 - Giuseppe Siri, Italilan Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1989)
May 23
May 27 - Buddhadasa, Buddhist monk (d. 1993)
May 28 - Phil Regan, American actor (d. 1996)
May 29 - T. H. White, British writer (d. 1964)
May 30 - Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d. 1959)
June 3 - Josephine Baker, American actress (d. 1975)
June 4 - Ivan Knunyants, Soviet chemist (d. 1990)
June 6 - Max August Zorn, German-born mathematician (d. 1993)
June 12 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
June 15 - Léon Degrelle, Belgian fascist (d. 1994)
June 19
June 20
June 22
June 24 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)
June 26 - Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer (d. 2008)
June 28 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
June 30 - Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
July-August
July 1 - Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 2004)
July 2
July 7
July 11 - Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
July 18 - S. I. Hayakawa, English professor and academic, United States Senator (d. 1992)
July 23 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
July 25 - José Figueres Ferrer, President of Costa Rica (d. 1990)
August 6 - Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
August 9 - Robert Surtees, American cinematographer (d. 1985)
August 12 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (d. 1972)
August 14 - Horst P. Horst, German photographer (d. 1999)
August 28 - John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
September-October
September 1
September 4 - Max Delbrück, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1981)
September 6 - Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
September 8 - Andrei Kirilenko (politician), Soviet politician (d. 1990)
September 17 - Raymond D. Mindlin, American mechanician (d. 1987)
September 17 - Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist
September 21 - Henry Beachell, American plant breeder (d. 2006)
September 25 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
October 6 - Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
October 9 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, first president of Senegal (d. 2001)
October 10 - Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
October 14
October 15 - Hiram Fong, American businessman and politician (d. 2004)
October 23 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
October 24 - Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (d. 1996)
October 27
November-December
November 2 - Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and cinema director and writer (d. 1976)
November 5 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
November 13 - Eva Zeisel, Hungarian-born industrial designer
November 14 - Louise Brooks, American actress (d. 1985)
November 16 - Henri Charrière, French author (d. 1973)
November 17 - Soichiro Honda, Japanese industrialist (d. 1973)
November 17 - Rollie Stiles, baseball player (d. 2007)
November 18
December 5 - Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director (d. 1986)
December 6 - Ahn Eak-tae, Korean composer of classical music (d. 1965)
December 9 - Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and naval officer (d. 1992)
December 16 - Barbara Kent, Canadian actress
December 17 - William McChesney Martin, Jr., Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve (d. 1986)
December 19 - Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader (d. 1982)
December 24 - James Hadley Chase, English writer (d. 1985)
December 25 - Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
December 26 - Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (d. 2003)
December 27
Deaths
January - June
January 29 - King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
February 8 - Johanna Hiedler, grandmother of Adolf Hitler (b. 1830)
February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet and publisher (b. 1872)
February 27 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (b. 1834)
March 13 - Susan B. Anthony, American civil rights and women's suffrage activist (b. 1820)
March 19 - Victor Fatio, zoologist (b. 1838)
March 29 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b. 1877)
April 6 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b. 1849)
April 8 - Auguste D, first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease (b. 1850)
April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)
April 19 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
April 19 - Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
April 24 - Mary Hunt, American temperance activist (b. 1830)
May 14 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and American statesman (b. 1829)
May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (b. 1828)
June 20 - John Clayton Adams, British artist (b. 1840)
July - December
August 26 - Victor, 5th duc de Broglie (b. 1846)
September 1 - Giuseppe Giacosa, poet and librettist (b. 1847)
September 5 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
October 8 - Adelaide Ristori, actress (b. 1822)
October 22 - Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
October 24 - Vladimir Stasov, music critic (b. 1824)
November 4 - John H. Ketcham, American politician (b. 1832)
November 16 - Mother Veronica of the Passion, religious leader (b. 1823)
December 7 - Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)
December 9 - Ferdinand Brunetière, critic (b. 1849)
December 21-Acharya Rajendrasuri, (b. 1827 )
Nobel prizes
Physics - Sir Joseph John Thomson
Chemistry - Henri Moissan
Medicine - Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Literature - Giosuè Carducci
Peace - Theodore RooseveltFurther Information
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