1906
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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).
Table of contents
Events of 1906
January - February
- 1 January - British India officially adopts Indian Standard Time.
- 8 January - Landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20.
- 22 January - The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, killing over 100 passengers in the ensuing disaster.
- 31 January - 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.
- 11 February - Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.
- 15 February - Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in the UK parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party.
- 28 February - Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a novel depicting the life of an immigrant family in Chicago during the early 1900s.
March - April
- 10 March - Explosion in coal mine in Courrières, France kills 1060.
- 15 March - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.
- 17 March - Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
- 18 March - Traian Vuia flies a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft.
- 27 March - The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg by Elizabeth Parker and Arthur Oliver Wheeler.
- 7 April - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
- 14 April - 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.
- 18 April - 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.
- 23 April - In Tsarist Russia, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.
May - June
- May
- Jack London's novel White Fang is serialized in The Outing Magazine.
- Club Deportivo Guadalajara is founded.
- June
- The first issue of the Annals of the Natal Government Museum (currently African Invertebrates) is published by Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
- 6 June - Durham and Southern Railway operates its first revenue train, Bonsal to Durham, North Carolina.
- 7 June - The RMS Lusitania is launched in Glasgow. It is the world's largest ship.
- 8 June - 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.
- 9 June- 10 June - Riots in Stockholm, Ladugårsdgärden - 50 policemen injured.
- 22 June - Haakon VII and Maud of Wales are crowned rulers of Norway.
- 25 June - Harry K. Thaw shoots architect Stanford White.
- 29 June - Mesa Verde declared a National Park.
- 30 June - United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
July - August
- 1 July - Sporting Clube de Portugal founded.
- 6 July - Second Geneva Convention.
- 12 July - Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer hastily and wrongly convicted of treason in 1899, is exonerated. He is reinstalled in the French Army 21 July, ending the " Dreyfus Affair" that exposed anti-Semitism in French society.
- 16 August - A magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Valparaíso, Chile leaves approximately 20,000 dead.
- 22 August - The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, is manufactured.
- 23 August - Unable to control a rebellion in the newly-formed Cuban republic, Pres. Tomás Estrada Palma requests U.S. intervention.
September - October
- 5 September - Bradbury Robinson throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
- 11 September - Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
- 18 September - Typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 persons in Hong Kong.
- 22 September - Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia. At least 27 people are killed and the black-owned business district is severely damaged.
- 24 September - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument.
- 26 September - The first concert of the Telharmonium, the first music synthesizer, is presented at Telharmonic Hall, Broadway at 39th St., New York City.
- 30 September - The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team piloted the balloon "United States" landed in Fylingdales, Yorkshire.
- 1 October
- Grand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to adopt universal suffrage, giving women the right to vote.
- 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.
- 6 October - The Majlis of Iran convenes for the first time.
- 11 October - San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
- 16 October - 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.
- 23 October - Aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off on Bagatelle in France and flies 60 meters (200 feet).
- 28 October - Creation of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust in Congo.
November - December
- 3 November - SOS becomes an international distress signal.
- 9 November - 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).
- 22 November - Russian Prime Min. Peter Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.
- 2 December - HMS Dreadnought commissioned. First all-big-gun warship.
- 4 December - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter organization established for African Americans, is founded at Cornell University.
- 6 December - Creation of district of Chimbote.
- 8 December - Petrified Forest, Arizona designated a National Monument.
- 10 December - Pres. Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating peace in the Russo-Japanese War (1905).
- 14 December - The world's first submarine, the Unterseeboot 1, enters the German navy.
- 24 December - Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
- 26 December - The world's first feature film, " The Story of the Kelly Gang", is released.
- 30 December - 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.
- Simplo Filler Pen company is founded, later to become the Montblanc Company.
Births
Gregorian calendar | 1906 MCMVI |
Ab urbe condita | 2659 |
Armenian calendar | 1355 ԹՎ ՌՅԾԵ |
Bahá'í calendar | 62 – 63 |
Berber calendar | 2856 |
Buddhist calendar | 2450 |
Burmese calendar | 1268 |
Byzantine calendar | 7414 – 7415 |
Chinese calendar | 乙巳年十二月初七日 (4542/4602-12-7) — to — 丙午年十一月十六日(4543/4603-11-16) |
Coptic calendar | 1622 – 1623 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1898 – 1899 |
Hebrew calendar | 5666 – 5667 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1961 – 1962 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1828 – 1829 |
- Kali Yuga | 5007 – 5008 |
Holocene calendar | 11906 |
Iranian calendar | 1284 – 1285 |
Islamic calendar | 1323 – 1324 |
Japanese calendar | Meiji 39 (明治39年) |
Korean calendar | 4239 |
Thai solar calendar | 2449 |
January-February
- 11 January - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d. 2008)
- 14 January - William Bendix, American actor (d. 1964)
- 15 January - Edna Staebler, Canadian author (d. 2006)
- 21 January - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007)
- 22 January - Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)
- 4 February
- 10 February
- 18 February - Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
- 26 February - Madeleine Carroll, British actress (d. 1987)
- 28 February - Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947)
March-April
- 1 March - Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000)
- 4 March
- Meindert DeJong, American author (d. 1991)
- Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., American businessman (d. 2007)
- 6 March - Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (d. 1978)
- 7 March
- 12 March - Yin Shun, Chinese Buddhist master (d. 2005)
- 16 March
- Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (d. 1998)
- Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer
- 19 March - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (d. 1962)
- 20 March
- 26 March - Rafael Méndez, Mexican-born trumpet virtuoso (d. 1981)
- 31 March - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
- 1 April - Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer (d. 1989)
- 4 April - John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (d. 1995)
- 9 April - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)
- 13 April - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
- 22 April - Eddie Albert, American actor, gardener and humanitarian activist (d. 2005)
- 25 April - William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997)
- 28 April
May-June
- 2 May - Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American photographer (d. 1979)
- 3 May - Mary Astor, Academy Award winning American actress and writer (d. 1987)
- 6 May - André Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998)
- 8 May - Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d. 1977)
- 11 May - Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (d. 1980)
- 12 May - Maurice Ewing, American geophysicist and oceanographer (d. 1974)
- 15 May - Humberto Delgado, Portuguese general and politician (d. 1965)
- 16 May
- 17 May - Zinka Milanov, Croatian-born soprano (d. 1989)
- 19 May - Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor (d. 2007)
- 20 May - Giuseppe Siri, Italilan Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1989)
- 23 May
- 27 May - Buddhadasa, Buddhist monk (d. 1993)
- 28 May - Phil Regan, American actor (d. 1996)
- 29 May - T. H. White, British writer (d. 1964)
- 30 May - Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d. 1959)
- 3 June - Josephine Baker, American actress (d. 1975)
- 4 June - Ivan Knunyants, Soviet chemist (d. 1990)
- 6 June - Max August Zorn, German-born mathematician (d. 1993)
- 12 June - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
- 15 June - Léon Degrelle, Belgian fascist (d. 1994)
- 19 June
- 20 June
- 22 June
- 24 June - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)
- 26 June - Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer (d. 2008)
- 28 June - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
- 30 June - Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
July-August
- 1 July - Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 2004)
- 2 July - Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
- 2 July - Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984)
- 7 July - William Feller, Croatian-born mathematician (d. 1970)
- 7 July - Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
- 11 July - Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
- 18 July - S. I. Hayakawa, English academic and politician (d. 1992)
- 23 July - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
- 25 July - José Figueres Ferrer, President of Costa Rica (d. 1990)
- 6 August - Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
- 9 August - Robert Surtees, American cinematographer (d. 1985)
- 12 August - Tedd Pierce, American animator (d. 1972)
- 14 August - Horst P. Horst, German photographer (d. 1999)
- 27 August - Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
- 28 August - John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
September-October
- 1 September
- 4 September - Max Delbrück, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1981)
- 6 September - Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
- 8 September - Andrei Kirilenko (politician), Soviet politician (d. 1990)
- 17 September - Raymond D. Mindlin, American mechanician (d. 1987)
- 17 September - Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist
- 21 September - Henry Beachell, American plant breeder (d. 2006)
- 25 September - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
- 6 October - Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
- 9 October - Léopold Sédar Senghor, first president of Senegal (d. 2001)
- 10 October - Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
- 14 October
- 15 October - Hiram Fong, American businessman and politician (d. 2004)
- 23 October - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
- 24 October - Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (d. 1996)
- 27 October
- Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer
- Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)
November-December
- 1 November - Johnny Indrisano, American boxer and actor (d. 1968)
- 2 November - Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and cinema director and writer (d. 1976)
- 5 November - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
- 13 November - Eva Zeisel, Hungarian-born industrial designer
- 14 November - Louise Brooks, American actress (d. 1985)
- 16 November - Henri Charrière, French author (d. 1973)
- 17 November - Soichiro Honda, Japanese industrialist (d. 1973)
- 17 November - Rollie Stiles, baseball player (d. 2007)
- 18 November
- 5 December - Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director (d. 1986)
- 6 December - Ahn Eak-tae, Korean composer of classical music (d. 1965)
- 9 December - Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and naval officer (d. 1992)
- 16 December - Barbara Kent, Canadian actress
- 17 December - William McChesney Martin, Jr., Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve (d. 1986)
- 19 December - Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader (d. 1982)
- 24 December - James Hadley Chase, English writer (d. 1985)
- 25 December - Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
- 26 December - Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (d. 2003)
- 27 December
Deaths
January - June
- 29 January - King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
- 8 February - Johanna Hiedler, grandmother of Adolf Hitler (b. 1830)
- 9 February - Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet and publisher (b. 1872)
- 13 February - Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
- 27 February - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (b. 1834)
- 13 March - Susan B. Anthony, American civil rights and women's suffrage activist (b. 1820)
- 19 March - Victor Fatio, zoologist (b. 1838)
- 29 March - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b. 1877)
- 6 April - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b. 1849)
- 8 April - Auguste D, first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease (b. 1850)
- 11 April - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)
- 19 April - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
- 19 April - Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
- 24 April - Mary Hunt, American temperance activist (b. 1830)
- 14 May - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and American statesman (b. 1829)
- 23 May - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (b. 1828)
- 20 June - John Clayton Adams, British artist (b. 1840)
July - December
- 26 August - Victor, 5th duc de Broglie (b. 1846)
- 1 September - Giuseppe Giacosa, poet and librettist (b. 1847)
- 5 September - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
- 8 October - Adelaide Ristori, actress (b. 1822)
- 22 October - Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
- 24 October - Vladimir Stasov, music critic (b. 1824)
- 4 November - John H. Ketcham, American politician (b. 1832)
- 16 November - Mother Veronica of the Passion, religious leader (b. 1823)
- 7 December - Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)
- 9 December - Ferdinand Brunetière, critic (b. 1849)
- 13 December - Jan Gerard Palm, composer (b. 1831)
- 21 December- 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