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Year '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).
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Events of 1906
January - February
★ January 1 - British India officially adopts Indian Standard Time.
★ January 8 - Landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20.
★ January 31 - Massive earthquake in Ecuador (8.6 on the Richter scale).
★ 8 February - The Liberal Party led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman win the United Kingdom general election with a large majority.
★ February 11 - Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical ''Vehementer nos''.
★ February 15 - Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in the UK parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party.
★ February 28 - Upton Sinclair publishes ''The Jungle'', a novel depicting the life of an immigrant family in Chicago during the early 1900s.
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.
The ruins of San Francisco following the April 18 earthquake and later fires
May - June
★ May
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★ Jack London's novel ''White Fang'' is serialized in ''The Outing Magazine''.
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★ Club Deportivo Guadalajara is founded.
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★ Sporting Clube de Portugal is founded.
★ June 6 - Durham & South Carolina Railroad operates its first revenue train, Bonsal to Durham, North Carolina.
★ 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 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 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 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
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★ Grand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to adopt universal suffrage, giving women the right to vote.
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★ The Madeira School, a private boarding school for girls, opens with twenty-eight students attending classes in two buildings on 19th Street just off Dupont Circle in downtown Washington, DC.
★ 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 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 intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity 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 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.
Births
January-February
★ January 11 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist
★ January 14 - William Bendix, American actor (d. 1964)
★ January 15 - Edna Staebler, Canadian author (d. 2006)
★ January 21 - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer
★ January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)
★ February 4
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★ Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d. 1997)
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★ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German religious leader and resistance leader (d. 1945)
★ February 10
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★ Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
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★ Erik Rhodes, American actor (d. 1990)
★ February 18 - Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
★ February 26 - Madeleine Carroll, British actress (d. 1997)
★ February 28 - Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947)
March-April
★ March 1 - Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000)
★ March 4
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★ Meindert DeJong, American author (d. 1991)
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★ Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., American businessman (d. 2007)
★ March 6 - Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (d. 1978)
★ March 7
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★ Elmar Lipping, Estonian statesman and soldier (d. 1994)
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★ Thomas Posey, doctor, medical scientist (d. 1990)
★ March 12 - Yin Shun, Chinese Buddhist master (d. 2005)
★ March 16
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★ Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (d. 1998)
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★ Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer
★ March 19 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (d. 1962)
★ March 20
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★ Abraham Beame, mayor of New York (d. 2001)
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★ Ozzie Nelson, American actor and band leader (d. 1975)
★ 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
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★ Kurt Gödel, Austrian logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (d. 1978)
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★ Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)
May-June
★ May 3 - Mary Astor, American actress (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
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★ Alfred Pellan, Canadian painter (d. 1988)
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★ Arturo Uslar-Pietri, Venezuelan writer (d. 2001)
★ 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
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★ Allan Scott, American screenwriter (d. 1995)
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★ Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (d. 1944)
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★ Willis Hudlin, baseball player (d. 2002)
★ 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
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★ Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo pioneer, artist, inventor (d. 1995)
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★ Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)
★ June 20
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★ Catherine Cookson, English author (d. 1998)
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★ Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (d. 2000)
★ June 22
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★ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (d. 2001)
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★ Billy Wilder, Austrian-born screenwriter, film director and producer (d. 2002)
★ June 24 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)
★ June 26 - Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer
★ 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
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★ Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
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★ Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984)
★ July 7
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★ William Feller, Croatian-born mathematician (d. 1970)
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★ Satchel Paige, black baseball player (d. 1982)
★ 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
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★ Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican politician and writer (d. 2002)
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★ Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
★ 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 - 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
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★ Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
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★ Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (d. 1975)
★ 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
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★ Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer
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★ Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)
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
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★ Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949)
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★ George Wald, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1997)
★ 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
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★ Andreas Feininger, French-born photographer (d. 1999)
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★ Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d. 1972)
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)
Saint Petersburg Institutions Building (1905-06).
★ 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 Roosevelt
See also
★ 1906 (disambiguation)
Notes
External links
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