1906
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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
[edit] January–February
- January 22 – The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, Canada, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster.
- January 31 – An earthquake (8.6 on the Richter scale) strikes Ecuador.
- February 11 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
[edit] March–April
- March 10 – An explosion in a coal mine in Courrières, France kills 1,060.
- March 18 – Traian Vuia flies a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft.
- April 7 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
- April 18 – The 1906 San Francisco earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, USA, 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.
[edit] May–June
- May
- Jack London's novel White Fang is serialized in The Outing Magazine.
- June 7 – The RMS Lusitania is launched in Glasgow. It is the world's largest ship.
[edit] July–August
- July 6 – The Second Geneva Convention meets.
- July 12 – Alfred Dreyfus is exonerated. He is reinstalled in the French Army on July 21, thus ending the Dreyfus Affair.
- 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 Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma requests United States intervention. The subsequent provisional occupation administration lasts until 1909.[citation needed]
[edit] September–October
- September 11 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
- September 18 – A typhoon and tsunami kill an estimated 10,000 in Hong Kong.[citation needed]
- 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 include the right of women to stand as candidates when it adopts universal suffrage.
- October 6 – The Majlis of Iran convenes for the first time.
- October 11 – A United States diplomatic crisis with Japan arises when the San Francisco public school board orders 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.
- October 23 – An aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off at Bagatelle in France and flies 60 meters (200 feet). This is the first officially recorded powered flight in Europe..
- 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 22 – Russian Prime Minister Peter Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.
- December 2 – HMS Dreadnought, the first all-big-gun warship, is commissioned.
- 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.
[edit] Undated
- 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 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.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1906 MCMVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2659 |
| Armenian calendar | 1355 ԹՎ ՌՅԾԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | 62 – 63 |
| Bengali calendar | 1313 |
| 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 |
[edit] January–February
- January 11 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d. 2008)
- January 13 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist
- January 21 – Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007)
- January 22 – Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)
- February 4
- Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d. 1997)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German religious leader and resistance leader (d. 1945)
- February 10 – Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
- February 18 – Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
- February 22 – Helge Kjærulff-Schmidt, Danish actor (d. 1982)
- February 26 – Madeleine Carroll, British actress (d. 1987)
- February 28 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947)
[edit] March–April
- March 1 – Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000)
- March 6 – Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (d. 1978)
- March 7 – Elmar Lipping, Estonian statesman and soldier (d. 1994)
- March 16 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer (d. 2009)
- March 19 – Adolf Eichmann, German war criminal (d. 1962)
- March 25 – A.J.P. Taylor, English historian (d. 1990)
- March 26 – Rafael Méndez, Mexican trumpet player (d. 1981)
- March 31 – Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
- April 1 – Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer (d. 1989)
- April 9 – Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)
- April 13 – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)
- April 19 – Luis Alberti, Dominican Republic musician (d. 1976)
- April 22 – Eddie Albert, American actor (d. 2005)
- April 28
- Kurt Gödel, Austrian logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (d. 1978)
- Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)
[edit] May–June
- May 2 – Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American photographer (d. 1979)
- May 3 – Mary Astor, American actress and writer (d. 1987)
- May 6 – André Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998)
- May 8 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d. 1977)
- May 11 – Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (d. 1980)
- May 15 – Humberto Delgado, Portuguese general and politician (d. 1965)
- May 16 – Arturo Uslar-Pietri, Venezuelan writer (d. 2001)
- May 19 – Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor (d. 2007)
- May 20 – Giuseppe Siri, Italilan Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1989)
- May 23 – Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (d. 1944)
- May 27 – Buddhadasa, Buddhist monk (d. 1993)
- May 29 – T. H. White, British writer (d. 1964)
- May 30 – Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d. 1959)
- June 3 – Josephine Baker, American-born French entertainer (d. 1975)
- June 4 – Ivan Knunyants, Soviet chemist (d. 1990)
- June 6 – Max August Zorn, German-born American mathematician (d. 1993)
- June 12 – Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
- June 15 – Léon Degrelle, Belgian fascist (d. 1994)
- June 19 – Ernst Boris Chain, German-born British biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
- June 22
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (d. 2001)
- Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American screenwriter, film director and producer (d. 2002)
- June 24 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)
- June 28 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
[edit] July–August
- July 1 – Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 2004)
- July 2 – Hans Bethe, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
- July 2 – Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984)
- July 3 – George Sanders, British actor (d. 1972)
- July 7 – William Feller, Croatian-born mathematician (d. 1970)
- July 7 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
- July 11 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
- July 23 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
- July 25 – José Figueres Ferrer, President of Costa Rica (d. 1990)
- August 5 – Joan Hickson, British actress (d. 1998)
- August 14 – Horst P. Horst, German photographer (d. 1999)
- August 27 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
- August 28 – John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
[edit] September–October
- September 1
- Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican politician and writer (d. 2002)
- Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
- Eleanor Burford, English writer (d. 1993)
- September 4 – Max Delbrück, German biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
- September 6 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-born Argentine chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
- September 8 – Andrei Kirilenko (politician), Soviet politician (d. 1990)
- September 25 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
- October 6 – Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
- October 9 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, President of Senegal (d. 2001)
- October 10 – Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
- October 14
- Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
- Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (d. 1975)
- October 23 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
- October 24 – Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (d. 1996)
- October 27 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer
[edit] November–December
- November 2 – Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and cinema director and writer (d. 1976)
- November 5 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
- November 14 – Louise Brooks, American actress (d. 1985)
- November 16 – Henri Charrière, French author (d. 1973)
- November 17 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese industrialist (d. 1991)
- November 18
- Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949)
- George Wald, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
- December 5 – Otto Preminger, Austrian-born American film director (d. 1986)
- December 6 – Ahn Eak-tae, Korean composer (d. 1965)
- December 9 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and naval officer (d. 1992)
- December 19 – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader (d. 1982)
- December 24 – James Hadley Chase, English writer (d. 1985)
- December 25 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
- December 26 – Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (d. 2003)
- December 27 – Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d. 1972)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January–June
- January 19 – Bartolomé Mitre President of Argentina (b. 1821)
- January 29 – King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
- February 13 – Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
- 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 19 – Victor Fatio, Swiss zoologist (b. 1838)
- March 29 – Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b. 1877)
- April 6 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b. 1849)
- April 19 – Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
- April 19 – Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
- May 14 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and American statesman (b. 1829)
- May 23 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (b. 1828)
- June 17 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess champion (b. 1872)
[edit] July–December
- September 1 – Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian poet and librettist (b. 1847)
- September 5 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
- October 8 – Adelaide Ristori, Italian actress (b. 1822)
- October 22 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
- October 24 – Vladimir Stasov, Russian music critic (b. 1824)
- December 7 – Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and activist, Nobel laureate (b. 1833)
- December 13 – Jan Gerard Palm, Dutch composer (b. 1831)
[edit] 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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