1906

**1906 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1906; MCMVI
Ab urbe condita	2659
Armenian calendar	1355; ԹՎ ՌՅԾԵ
Bahá'í calendar	62 – 63
Berber calendar	2856
Buddhist calendar	2450
Burmese calendar	1268
Byzantine calendar	7414 – 7415
Chinese calendar	乙巳年十二月初七日; (4542/4602-12-7) — to — 丙午年十一月十六日; (4543/4603-11-16)
Coptic calendar	1622 – 1623
Ethiopian calendar	1898 – 1899
Hebrew calendar	5666 – 5667
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1961 – 1962
- Shaka Samvat	1828 – 1829
- Kali Yuga	5007 – 5008
Holocene calendar	11906
Iranian calendar	1284 – 1285
Islamic calendar	1323 – 1324
Japanese calendar	Meiji 39; (明治39年)
Korean calendar	4239
Thai solar calendar	2449
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	Subject: Archaeology – Architecture – Art
	Aviation – Film – Literature (Poetry); Meteorology – Music (Country); Rail transport – Radio – Science
	Sports – Television
	Countries: Australia – Canada – Ecuador – India; Ireland – Malaysia – New Zealand – Norway – Philippines – Singapore – South Africa; Soviet Union –UK – United States – Zimbabwe – Italy
	Leaders: Sovereign states – State leaders
	Religious leaders – Law
	Categories: Births – Deaths – Works – Introductions
	Establishments – Disestablishments – Awards v • d • e

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s – 1900s – 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years:	1903 1904 1905 – 1906 – 1907 1908 1909

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Year 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).

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[edit] Events of 1906

January 31: Ecuador earthquake (8.6).

[edit] January–February

January 1 – British India officially adopts Indian Standard Time.
January 8 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 21.
January 22 – The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, killing over 100 passengers in the ensuing disaster.
January 31 – An earthquake (8.6 on the Richter scale) strikes Ecuador.
8 February – The Liberal Party, led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman, wins the United Kingdom general election with a large majority.
February 11 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
February 15 – Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in the U.K. Parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party.
February 28 – Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a novel depicting the life of an immigrant family in Chicago during the early 1900s.

[edit] March–April

March 10 – An explosion in a coal mine in Courrières, France kills 1,060.
March 15 – Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.
March 17 – The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
March 18 – Traian Vuia flies a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft.

March 15: Rolls-Royce

March 27 – The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg by Elizabeth Parker and Arthur Oliver Wheeler.
April 7 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
April 14 – The first service is held at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles, CA 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.
April 23 – In Tsarist Russia, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.

The ruins of San Francisco following the April 18 earthquake and later fires

[edit] May–June

May
- Jack London's novel White Fang is serialized in The Outing Magazine.
- Club Deportivo Guadalajara is founded.
June
- The first issue of the Annals of the Natal Government Museum (currently African Invertebrates) is published by Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

The cover of the first issue of the Annals of the Natal Government Museum published in June

June 6 – Durham and Southern Railway operates its first revenue train, Bonsal to Durham, North Carolina.
June 7 – The RMS Lusitania is launched in Glasgow. It is the world's largest ship.
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 9- June 10 – Riots in Stockholm, Ladugårsdgärden end with 50 policemen injured.
June 22 – Haakon VII and Maud of Wales are crowned rulers of Norway.
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–August

July 1 – Sporting Clube de Portugal is founded.
July 6 – The Second Geneva Convention meets.
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 16 – A magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Valparaíso, Chile leaves approximately 20,000 dead.
August 22 – The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, is manufactured.
August 23 – Unable to control a rebellion in the newly formed Cuban Republic, Pres. Tomás Estrada Palma requests U.S. intervention.

[edit] September–October

1906 St. Louis Post-Dispatch photograph of Brad Robinson, who threw the first legal forward pass

September 5 – Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
September 11 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
September 18 – A typhoon with a tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 persons in Hong Kong.
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.
October 1
- The Grand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to adopt universal suffrage, giving women the right to vote.
- 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 6 – The Majlis of Iran convenes for the first time.
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.
October 16 – Imposter Wilhelm Voigt impersonates a Prussian officer and takes over city hall in Köpenick for a short time, amusing all of Germany and other countries.
October 23 – An aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off at Bagatelle in France and flies 60 meters (200 feet).
October 28 – The Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust, is created in the Congo.

[edit] November–December

November 3 – SOS becomes an international distress signal.
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).
November 22 – Russian Prime Minister Peter Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.
December 2 – The HMS Dreadnought (the first all-big-gun warship) is commissioned.
December 4 – Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter organization established for African Americans, is founded at Cornell University.
December 6 – The district of Chimbote is created in Peru.
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).
December 14 – The first German submarine, U-1, enters the German Imperial Navy.
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 represents the interests of Indian Muslims, is formed.

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The Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunization for tuberculosis is first developed.
Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior.
Construction begins on the current Great Mosque of Djenné.
The muffuletta sandwich is invented in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Belgian shopkeeper Edgar Everaert creates the Club Union Football(soccer) team.
The Brown Dog statue is erected in Battersea.
The Simplo Filler Pen company is founded, later to become the Montblanc Company.
Algeciras Conference.
A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals revolt in Persia. The shah is forced to grant a constitution and establish a national assembly, the Majlis.