1906
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'''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 - Explosion in coalmine in Courrières, France kills 1060
March 15 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered
March 18 - Traian_Vuia|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, killing at least 3000. 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
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 - Atlanta Riots|Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia (12 killed)
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 Wilhelm Voigt|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).
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 Dixon Oldham|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
January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)
February 4 - Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d. 1997)
February 10 - Erik Rhodes, American actor (d. 1990)
March 1 - Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000)
March 16 - Henny Youngman, English born comedian (d. 1998)
March 19 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (d. 1962)
March 31 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
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 - Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)
May 6 - André Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998)
May 28 - Phil Regan (actor)|Phil Regan, American actor (d. 1996)
May 29 - T. H. White, British writer (d. 1964)
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 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 23 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
August 5 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
August 12 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (d. 1972)
August 28 - John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
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 25 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
October 10 - R. K. Narayan|Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan Indian novelist (d. 2001)
October 14 - Hassan al Banna|Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
October 23 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
October 27 - Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)
November 5 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
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 5 - Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director (d. 1986)
December 25 - Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
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|Physics - Sir Joseph John Thomson
Nobel Prize/Chemistry|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|Peace - Theodore Roosevelt
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