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1906

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{{yearbox| | in?= | cp=19th century | c=20th century | cf=21st century | yp1=1903 | yp2=1904 | yp3=1905 | year=1906 | ya1=1907 | ya2=1908 | ya3=1909 | dp3=1870s | dp2=1880s | dp1=1890s | d=1900s | dn1=1910s | dn2=1920s | dn3=1930s }} 1906' ('MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

Events

- January 8 - Landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20.

- January 31 - Earthquake in Ecuador (8.6 in Richter scale).

- February 11 - Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.

- February 15 - Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in the UK parliament take the name Labour Party (UK)|Parliamentary Labour Party.

- March 10 - Courrières mine disaster|Explosion in coal mine in Courrières, France kills 1060.

- March 15 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.

- March 18 - Traian Vuia flies a self-propelled heavier than air aircraft.

- April 7 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.

- April 18 - 1906 San Francisco earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3000. 225,000-300,000 left homeless. $350 million in damages. The estimated magnitude of the earthquake is 7.8.

- June 9-June 10 - Riots in Stockholm, Ladugårsdgärden - 50 policemen injured.

- June 25 - New York playboy Harry K. Thaw shoots architect Stanford White.

- June 28-July 6 - Crown Jewels of Ireland stolen during this period.

- June 30 - United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.

- 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 23 - Unable to control a rebellion in the newly-formed Cuban republic, Pres. Tomás Estrada Palma requests U.S. intervention.

- September 5 - Brandbury Robinson throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.

- September 18 - Typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 persons in Hong Kong.

- September 22 - Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia. At least 21 people are killed and the black-owned business district is severely damaged.

- October 1 - 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.

- October 11 - San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.

- October 16 - The Captain of Köpenick fools a city hall in Köpenick by impersonating a Prussian officer.

- October 23 - Aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off on Bagatelle in France and flies 60 meters (200 feet).

- October 28 - Creation of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust in Congo.

- November 3 - SOS becomes an international distress signal.

- November 9 - US President Theodore Roosevelt leaves for a trip to Panama to inspect the construction progress of the Panama Canal (this was the first time a sitting President of the United States made an official trip outside of the United States).

- November 22 - Russian Prime Min. Peter Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.

- December 4 - Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter_Fraternities and sororities established for Fraternities and sororities established for African_Americans, was founded at Cornell University.

- December 6 - Politic creation of district of Chimbote.

- December 10 - Pres. Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating peace in the Russo-Japanese War (1905).

- 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 represented the interests of Indian Muslims, is formed.

Unknown dates

- Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunization for tuberculosis first developed

- Richard Dixon Oldham argues that the Richard Dixon Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior

- Second Geneva Convention

- Construction begins on the current Great Mosque of Djenné.

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

Births

January

- January 11 - Jaroslav Šindelář, Czech psychiatrist and neurologist (d. 1990)

- January 11 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist who discovered LSD

- January 14 - William Bendix, U.S. actor (d. 1964)

- January 22 - Robert E. Howard, U.S. author (d. 1936)

February

- February 4 - Clyde Tombaugh, U.S. astronomer (d. 1997)

- February 4 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German religious leader and participant in the resistance (d. 1945)

- February 10 - Lon Chaney, Jr., U.S. actor (d. 1973)

- February 10 - Erik Rhodes, U.S. actor (d. 1990)

- February 26 - Madeleine Carroll, British actress (d. 1997)

- February 28 - Bugsy Siegel, U.S. gangster (d. 1947)

March

- March 1 - Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000)

- March 6 - Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (d. 1978)

- March 12 - Yin Shun, Buddhist master (d. 2005)

- March 16 - Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (d. 1998)

- March 19 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (d. 1962)

- March 20 - Abraham Beame, mayor of New York (d. 2001)

- March 20 - Ozzie Nelson, American actor and band leader (d. 1975)

- March 31 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)

April

- 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 in Literature|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)

- April 25 - William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997)

- April 28 - Kurt Gödel, logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (d. 1978)

- April 28 - Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)

May

- May 3 - Mary Astor, Academy Award-winning U.S. actress (d. 1987)

- May 3 - Anna E. Roosevelt, first child of Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt (d. 1975)

- May 6 - André Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998)

- May 8 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d. 1977)

- May 11 - Jacqueline Cochran, pioneer U.S aviatrix (d. 1980)

- May 12 - Maurice Ewing, U.S. geophysicist and oceanographer (d. 1974)

- May 15 - Humberto Delgado, Portuguese general and politician (d. 1965)

- May 16 - Alfred Pellan, Canadian painter (d. 1988)

- May 16 - Arturo Uslar-Pietri, Venezuelan writer (d. 2001)

- May 17 - Zinka Milanov, Croatian-born soprano (d. 1989)

- May 20 - Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, Cardinal (Catholicism) of the Cardinal (Catholicism) of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1989)

- May 23 - Allan Scott (screenwriter), U.S. screenwriter (d. 1995)

- May 23 - Lucha Reyes (Mexican singer), Mexican singer (d. 1944)

- May 23 - Willis Hudlin, Major League Baseball pitcher (d. 2002)

- May 27 - Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, Buddhist monk (d. 1993)

- May 28 - Phil Regan (actor)|Phil Regan, American actor (d. 1996)

- May 29 - T. H. White, British writer (d. 1964)

June

- June 3 - Josephine Baker, American actress (d. 1975)

- June 4 - Ivan Knunyants, Soviet chemist (d. 1990)

- June 6 - Max August Zorn, German-born U.S. mathematician (d. 1993)

- June 7 - Glen Gray, American saxophonist (d. 1963)

- June 15 - Léon Degrelle, Belgian fascist (d. 1994)

- June 19 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)

- June 20 - Catherine Cookson, English author (d. 1998)

- June 20 - Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (d. 2000)

- June 22 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (d. 2001)

- June 22 - Billy Wilder, screenwriter, film director and producer (d. 2002)

- June 24 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)

- June 28 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)

July

- July 1 - Estée Lauder (person)|Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 2004)

- July 2 - Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)

- July 2 - Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984)

- July 7 - William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician (d. 1970)

- July 11 - Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)

- July 18 - S. I. Hayakawa, English professor and academic, United States Senator (d. 1992)

- July 23 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)

- July 25 - José Figueres Ferrer, served as President of Costa Rica, (d. 1990)

August

- August 5 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)

- August 9 - Robert Surtees (cinematographer), U.S. cinematographer, 3 Academy Awards (d. 1985)

- August 12 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (d. 1972)

- August 14 - Horst P. Horst, photographer (d. 1999)

- August 28 - John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)

September

- September 1 - Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican politician and writer (d. 2002)

- September 1 - Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)

- September 4 - Max Delbrück, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1981)

- September 6 - Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)

- September 8 - Andrei Kirilenko (politician), Soviet politician (d. 1990)

- September 25 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)

October

- October 6 - Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)

- October 10 - R. K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. R. K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)

- October 14 - Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)

- October 14 - Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (d. 1975)

- October 27 - Hiram Fong, U.S. elder statesman and business tycoon (d. 2004)

- October 23 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)

- October 27 - Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)

November

- November 2 - Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and cinema director and writer (d. 1976)

- November 5 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)

- November 16 - Henri Charrière, author (d. 1973)

- November 17 - Soichiro Honda, Japanese industrialist (d. 1973)

- November 18 - Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949)

- November 18 - George Wald, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1997)

December

- December 5 - Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director (d. 1986)

- December 6 - Ahn Eak-tae, Korean composer of classical music (d. 1965)

- December 9 - Grace Hopper, U.S. computer scientist and naval officer (d. 1992)

- December 17 - William McChesney Martin, Jr., ninth Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve (d. 1986)

- December 19 - Leonid Brezhnev, politician, leader of the Soviet Union 1964 to 1982 (d. 1982)

- December 25 - Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)

- December 27 - Andreas Feininger, photographer (d. 1999)

- December 27 - Oscar Levant, U.S. pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d. 1972)

Deaths

- January 29 - King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)

- February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet and publisher (b. 1872)

- 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 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 in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)

- April 24 - Mary Hunt, American temperance movement leader (b. 1830)

- May 14 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and American statesman (b. 1829)

- May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (b. 1828)

- September 5 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)

- October 22 - Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)

- December 7 - Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)

Nobel prizes

- Nobel Prize/Physics - Nobel Prize/Physics - Sir Joseph John Thomson

- Nobel Prize/Chemistry - Nobel Prize/Chemistry - Henri Moissan

- Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine|Medicine - Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal

- Nobel Prize in literature|Literature - Giosuè Carducci

- Nobel Prize/Peace - Nobel Prize/Peace - Theodore Roosevelt

Buildings

- St Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic School

- Balboa Pavilion in Newport Beach, California

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