1906

Published on Wednesday, October 31st 2007. Edited by Cap Andhassoy, Ann Arbor, United States.

Centuries: 19th century – 20th century – 21st century

Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s – 1900s – 1910s 1920s 1930s

Years: 1903 1904 1905 – 1906 – 1907 1908 1909

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).

Events of 1906

31 January: Ecuador earthquake (8.6).

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).

28 February: The Jungle.

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.

15 March: Rolls-Royce

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.

The cover of the first issue of the Annals of the Natal Government Museum published in June

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

1906 in other calendars

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)

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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
Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d. 1997)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German religious leader and resistance leader (d. 1945)
10 February
Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
Erik Rhodes, American actor (d. 1990)
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
Elmar Lipping, Estonian statesman and soldier (d. 1994)
Thomas Posey, doctor, medical scientist (d. 1990)
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
Abraham Beame, mayor of New York (d. 2001)
Ozzie Nelson, American actor and band leader (d. 1975)
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
Kurt Gödel, Austrian logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (d. 1978)
Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)

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
Alfred Pellan, Canadian painter (d. 1988)
Arturo Uslar-Pietri, Venezuelan writer (d. 2001)
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
Allan Scott, American screenwriter (d. 1995)
Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (d. 1944)
Willis Hudlin, baseball player (d. 2002)
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
Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo pioneer, artist, inventor (d. 1995)
Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)
20 June
Catherine Cookson, English author (d. 1998)
Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (d. 2000)
22 June
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (d. 2001)
Billy Wilder, Austrian-born screenwriter, film director and producer (d. 2002)
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
Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican politician and writer (d. 2002)
Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
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
Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (d. 1975)
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
Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949)
George Wald, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1997)
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
Andreas Feininger, French-born photographer (d. 1999)
Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d. 1972)

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)

Saint Petersburg Institutions Building (1905-06).

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

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