Events from the year 1906 in the United States. [edit] Events [edit] January–March [edit] April–June - April 14 – The first service is held at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles 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.
- June 6 – Durham and Southern Railway 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 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–September - August 23 – Unable to control a rebellion in the newly formed Cuban Republic, Pres. Tomás Estrada Palma requests U.S. intervention.
- September 5 – Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
- 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.
[edit] October–December [edit] Undated [edit] Births [edit] January–February [edit] March–April [edit] May–June - May 2 – Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born photographer (d. 1979)
- May 3 – Mary Astor, actress and writer (d. 1987)
- May 11 – Jacqueline Cochran, aviatrix (d. 1980)
- May 12 – Maurice Ewing, geophysicist and oceanographer (d. 1974)
- May 17 – Zinka Milanov, Croatian-born soprano (d. 1989)
- May 19 – Bruce Bennett, athlete and actor (d. 2007)
- May 23 – Allan Scott, screenwriter (d. 1995)
- May 28 – Phil Regan, actor (d. 1996)
- June 3 – Josephine Baker, actress (d. 1975)
- June 6 – Max August Zorn, German-born mathematician (d. 1993)
- June 19 – Earl W. Bascom, rodeo pioneer, artist, inventor (d. 1995)
- June 20 – Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (d. 2000)
- June 22
- June 26 – Viktor Schreckengost, industrial designer (d. 2008)
[edit] July–August [edit] September–October [edit] November–December [edit] Deaths - February 9 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet and publisher (b. 1872)
- February 27 – Samuel Pierpont Langley, astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (b. 1834)
- March 13 – Susan B. Anthony, civil rights and women's suffrage activist (b. 1820)
- April 11 – Francis Pharcellus Church, editor and publisher (b. 1839)
- April 24 – Mary Hunt, temperance activist (b. 1830)
- May 14 – Carl Schurz, German-born statesman (b. 1829)
- June 17 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury, chess champion (b. 1872)
- November 4 – John H. Ketcham, politician (b. 1832)
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