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Categories: Births – Deaths – Works – Introductions

Establishments – Disestablishments – Awards v • d • e

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).

[edit] Table of contents

Contents 1 Table of contents 2 Events of 1906 2.1 January–February 2.2 March–April 2.3 May–June 2.4 July–August 2.5 September–October 2.6 November–December 2.7 Undated 3 Births 3.1 January–February 3.2 March–April 3.3 May–June 3.4 July–August 3.5 September–October 3.6 November–December 4 Deaths 4.1 January–June 4.2 July–December 5 Nobel Prizes 6 Notes 7 External links

[edit] Events of 1906

[edit] January–February

• January 1 – British India officially adopts Indian Standard Time.
• January 8 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 21.
• January 22 – The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, killing over 100 passengers in the ensuing disaster.
• January 31 – An earthquake (8.6 on the Richter scale) strikes Ecuador.
• 8 February – The Liberal Party, led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman, wins 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 U.K. 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.

[edit] March–April

• March 10 – An explosion in a coal mine in Courrières, France kills 1,060.
• March 15 – Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.
• March 17 – The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is 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 – The first service is held at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles, CA by W.J. Seymour, in a series later known as the Azusa Street Revival, an event which launches the Pentecostal Movement in Christianity.
• 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 3,000, with 225,000–300,000 left homeless, and $350 million in damages.
• April 23 – In Tsarist Russia, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.

[edit] 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.

• June 6 – Durham and Southern Railway 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 end with 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 is declared a National Park.
• June 30 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.

[edit] July–August

• July 1 – Sporting Clube de Portugal is founded.
• July 6 – The Second Geneva Convention meets.
• 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.

[edit] September–October

• September 5 – Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
• September 11 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
• September 18 – A typhoon with a tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 persons in Hong Kong.
• September 22 – Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia result in 27 people killed and the black-owned business district 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, piloting the balloon United States, lands in Fylingdales, Yorkshire.
• October 1
  • The 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 28 students attending classes in 2 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 – The San Francisco public school board sparks a 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 – An aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off at Bagatelle in France and flies 60 meters (200 feet).
• October 28 – The Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust, is created in the Congo.

[edit] November–December

• November 3 – SOS becomes an international distress signal.
• November 9 – U.S. 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 Minister Peter Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.
• December 2 – The HMS Dreadnought (the first all-big-gun warship) is commissioned.
• December 4 – Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter organization established for African Americans, is founded at Cornell University.
• December 6 – The district of Chimbote is created in Peru.
• December 8 – The Petrified Forest, Arizona is designated a National Monument.
• December 10 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating peace in the Russo-Japanese War (1905).
• December 14 – The first German submarine, U-1, enters the German Imperial 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 represents the interests of Indian Muslims, is formed.

[edit] Undated

• The Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunization for tuberculosis is 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 the Club Union Football(soccer) team.
• The Brown Dog statue is erected in Battersea.
• The Simplo Filler Pen company is founded, later to become the Montblanc Company.
• Algeciras Conference.
• A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals revolt in Persia. The shah is forced to grant a constitution and establish a national assembly, the Majlis.

[edit] 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) — 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
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[edit] January–February

• January 11 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d. 2008)
• January 13 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist
• 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
  • Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d. 1997)
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German religious leader and resistance leader (d. 1945)
• February 10
  • Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
  • Erik Rhodes, American actor (d. 1990)
• February 18 – Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
• February 20 – John Kenley, American theatrical producer, the Kenley Players
• February 22 – Helge Kjærulff-Schmidt, Danish actor (d. 1982)
• February 26 – Madeleine Carroll, British actress (d. 1987)
• February 28 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947)

[edit] March–April

• March 1 – Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000)
• March 4
  • Meindert DeJong, American author (d. 1991)
  • Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., American businessman (d. 2007)
• March 6 – Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (d. 1978)
• March 7
  • Elmar Lipping, Estonian statesman and soldier (d. 1994)
  • Thomas Posey, doctor, medical scientist (d. 1990)
• March 16
  • Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (d. 1998)
  • Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer
• March 19 – Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (d. 1962)
• March 20 – Ozzie Nelson, American actor and band leader (d. 1975)
• March 25 – A.J.P. Taylor, English historian (d. 1990)
• March 26 – Rafael Méndez, Mexican-born trumpet player (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 19 – Luis Alberti, Dominican Republic musician (d. 1976)
• April 22 – Eddie Albert, American actor (d. 2005)
• April 25 – William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997)
• April 28
  • Kurt Gödel, Austrian logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (d. 1978)
  • Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)

[edit] May–June

• May 2 – Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American photographer (d. 1979)
• May 3 – Mary Astor, 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
  • Alfred Pellan, Canadian painter (d. 1988)
  • 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
  • Allan Scott, American screenwriter (d. 1995)
  • Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (d. 1944)
• 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
  • Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo pioneer, artist, inventor (d. 1995)
  • Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
• June 20
  • Catherine Cookson, English author (d. 1998)
  • Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (d. 2000)
• June 22
  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (d. 2001)
  • 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 (d. 2008)
• June 28 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
• June 30 – Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)

[edit] July–August

• July 1 – Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 2004)
• July 2 – Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
• July 2 – Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984)
• July 3 – George Sanders, British actor (d. 1972)
• July 7 – William Feller, Croatian-born mathematician (d. 1970)
• July 7 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
• July 11 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
• July 18 – S. I. Hayakawa, English academic and politician (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 5 – Joan Hickson, British actress (d. 1998)
• 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 27 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
• August 28 – John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)

[edit] September–October

• September 1
  • Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican politician and writer (d. 2002)
  • Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
  • Eleanor Burford, English writer (d. 1993)
• September 4 – Max Delbrück, German biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (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, President of Senegal (d. 2001)
• October 10 – Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
• October 14
  • Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
  • 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
  • Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer
  • Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)

[edit] November–December

• November 1 – Johnny Indrisano, American boxer and actor (d. 1968)
• 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. 1991)
• November 18
  • Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949)
  • George Wald, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
• December 5 – Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director (d. 1986)
• December 6 – Ahn Eak-tae, Korean composer (d. 1965)
• December 9 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and naval officer (d. 1992)
• December 16 – Barbara Kent, Canadian actress
• 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
  • Andreas Feininger, French-born photographer (d. 1999)
  • Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d. 1972)

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January–June

• January 29 – King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
• February 9 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet and publisher (b. 1872)
• February 13 – Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
• 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, Swiss zoologist (b. 1838)
• March 29 – Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b. 1877)
• April 6 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b. 1849)
• 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 17 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess champion (b. 1872)
• June 20 – John Clayton Adams, British artist (b. 1840)

[edit] July–December

• August 26 – Victor, 5th duc de Broglie (b. 1846)
• September 1 – Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian poet and librettist (b. 1847)
• September 5 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
• October 8 – Adelaide Ristori, Italian actress (b. 1822)
• October 22 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
• October 24 – Vladimir Stasov, Russian music critic (b. 1824)
• November 4 – John H. Ketcham, American politician (b. 1832)
• November 16 – Mother Veronica of the Passion, British religious leader (b. 1823)

• December 7 – Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1833)
• December 9 – Ferdinand Brunetière, French critic (b. 1849)
• December 13 – Jan Gerard Palm, Dutch composer (b. 1831)
• December 21 – Acharya Rajendrasuri , Indian religious leader and reformer (b. 1827 )

[edit] Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Sir Joseph John Thomson
• Chemistry – Henri Moissan
• Medicine – Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal
• Literature – Giosuè Carducci
• Peace – Theodore Roosevelt

[edit] Notes

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