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Events from the year 1906 in the United Kingdom.

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8 February - The Liberal Party led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman win the general election with a large majority.
15 February - Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in Parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party.
10 March - Bakerloo Line of the London Underground opened.^[1]
15 March - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.

22 March - First international rugby match. England defeats France 25-8.^[2]
26 May - opening of Vauxhall Bridge in London.^[1]
8 October - German inventor and hairdresser Karl Nessler gives the first public demonstration of his permanent wave machine in London.^[1]
23 October - Suffragettes disrupt the State Opening of Parliament.^[2]
2 December - HMS Dreadnought commissioned, the first all-big-gun warship.
10 December - J. J. Thomson wins the Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases."^[3]
13 December
- Trade Disputes Act 1906 legalises picketing.^[2]
- Workmen's Compensation Act 1906 entitles workers to compensation for industrial injuries or disease.^[2]
15 December - Opening of the London Underground Piccadilly line.^[1]

19 February - Grace Williams, composer (died 1977)
26 February - Madeleine Carroll, actress (died 1997)
16 March - Henny Youngman, American-domiciled comedian (died 1998)
25 March - A.J.P. Taylor, English historian (died 1990)
9 April - Hugh Gaitskell, British Labour politician (died 1963)
29 May - T. H. White, writer (died 1964)
June 19 – Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
20 June
- Catherine Cookson, author (died 1998)
- Robert Trent Jones, American-domiciled golf course designer (died 2000)
27 June - Vernon Watkins, poet (died 1967)
30 June - Ralph Allen, footballer (died 1981)
5 August - Joan Hickson, actress (died 1998)
28 August - John Betjeman, poet (died 1984)
8 December - Richard Llewellyn, novelist (died 1983)
24 December - James Hadley Chase, writer (died 1985)

April 19 – Spencer Gore, tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
20 June - John Clayton Adams, artist (born 1840)
November 16 – Mother Veronica of the Passion, religious leader (b. 1823)
19 December - Frederic William Maitland, historian and jurist (born 1850)
30 December - Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist (born 1814)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 338–339. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1906". http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1906/. Retrieved 2008-02-03.