1906 in the United States
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Events from the year 1906 in the United States.

[edit] Events

[edit] January–March

February 28: The Jungle exposes corruption in the meatpacking industry.

• January 8 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 21.
• February 28 – Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a novel depicting the life of an immigrant family in Chicago during the early 1900s.
• March 17 – The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

[edit] April–June

April 18: 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

• 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

September 5: The first legal forward pass in an American football.

• 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

• October 1 – 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 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.
• 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).
• December 4 – Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter organization established for African Americans, is founded at Cornell University.
• 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).

[edit] Undated

• The muffuletta sandwich is invented in New Orleans, Louisiana.

[edit] Births

[edit] January–February

• January 14 – William Bendix, actor (d. 1964)
• January 22 – Robert E. Howard, author (d. 1936)
• February 4 – Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer (d. 1997)
• February 10
  • Lon Chaney, Jr., actor (d. 1973)
  • Erik Rhodes, actor (d. 1990)
• February 20 – John Kenley, theatrical producer (d. 2009)
• February 28 – Bugsy Siegel, gangster (d. 1947)

[edit] March–April

• March 4
  • Meindert DeJong, Dutch-born author (d. 1991)
  • Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., businessman (d. 2007)
• March 16 – Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (d. 1998)
• March 20 – Ozzie Nelson, actor and band leader (d. 1975)
• March 26 – Rafael Méndez, Mexican-born trumpet player (d. 1981)
• April 4 – John Cameron Swayze, journalist (d. 1995)
• April 22 – Eddie Albert, actor (d. 2005)
• April 25 – William J. Brennan, Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997)

[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
  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author and aviator (d. 2001)
  • Billy Wilder, Austrian-born screenwriter, film director and producer (d. 2002)
• June 26 – Viktor Schreckengost, industrial designer (d. 2008)

[edit] July–August

• July 1 – Estée Lauder, cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 2004)
• July 2 – Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
• July 7 – Satchel Paige, baseball player (d. 1982)
• July 18 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-born academic and politician (d. 1992)
• August 6 – Vic Dickenson, trombonist (d. 1984)
• August 9 – Robert L. Surtees, cinematographer (d. 1985)
• August 12 – Tedd Pierce, animator (d. 1972)
• August 27 – Ed Gein, serial killer (d. 1984)

[edit] September–October

• September 17 – Raymond D. Mindlin, mechanician (d. 1987)
• September 17 – Edgar Wayburn, environmentalist
• September 21 – Henry Beachell, plant breeder (d. 2006)
• October 6 – Janet Gaynor, actress (d. 1984)
• October 15 – Hiram Fong, businessman and politician (d. 2004)
• October 23 – Gertrude Ederle, swimmer (d. 2003)
• October 27 – Earle Cabell, politician (d. 1975)

[edit] November–December

• November 1 – Johnny Indrisano, boxer and actor (d. 1968)
• November 5 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, astronomer (d. 2004)
• November 13 – Eva Zeisel, Hungarian-born industrial designer
• November 14 – Louise Brooks, actress (d. 1985)
• November 18 – George Wald, scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
• December 5 – Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director (d. 1986)
• December 9 – Grace Hopper, computer scientist and naval officer (d. 1992)
• December 27
  • Andreas Feininger, French-born photographer (d. 1999)
  • Oscar Levant, pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d. 1972)

[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)

[edit] External links

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