1906

Years:
1903 1904 1905 – 1906 – 1907 1908 1909

Decades:
1870s 1880s 1890s – 1900s – 1910s 1920s 1930s

Centuries:
19th century – 20th century – 21st century

1906 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
Science and technology
Aviation - Rail transport - Science
Other topics
Canada – Ireland – South Africa – Sport

Lists of leaders:
State leaders - Religious leaders

1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

1 Events
2 Unknown dates
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Nobel Prizes

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 Parliamentary Labour Party
March 10 – Explosion in coalmine in Courriese, France kills 1060
March 15 – Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered
March 18 – Traian Vuia flies first 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. The estimated magnitude of the earthquake is 7.8.
June 9 -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
September 18 – Typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10.000 persons in Hong Kong
October 3 – SOS becomes an international distress signal
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 28 – Creation of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust in Congo.
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).
December 4 – Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans, was founded at Cornell University
December 6 – Politic creation of district of Chimbote.
December 24 – Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
26 December – The world's first feature film, "The Story of the Kelly Gang", is released.

Unknown dates

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

March 19 – Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (d. 1962)
April 9 – Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)
April 13 – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer (d. 1989)
May 6 – André Weil, mathematician (d. 1998)
May 29 – T. H. White, British writer (d. 1964)
June 7 – Glen Gray, American saxophonist (d. 1963)
June 15 – Léon Degrelle, Belgian fascist who joined the Waffen SS (d. 1994)
June 20 – Robert Trent Jones, British-American golf course designer (d. 2000)
June 24 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)
August 12 – Tedd Pierce, American animator (d. 1972)
August 28 – John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
October 14 – Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian Islamist, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
November 18 – Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949)
December 5 – Otto Preminger, film director (d. 1986)

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)
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)

Nobel Prizes

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

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