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 Parliamentary Labour Party.
• March 10 - 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.
  • April 23 - the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma in Tzarist Russia.
  • June 6 - Durham & South Carolina Railroad operates its first revenue train, Bonsal to Durham, North Carolina.
  • 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 - 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.
  • September 24 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument.
  • 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 Fraternity, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity 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

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  • 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

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  January-March

  • 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 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 18 - Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician. (d. 1980)
  • February 26 - Madeleine Carroll, British actress (d. 1997)
  • February 28 - Bugsy Siegel, U.S. gangster (d. 1947)
  • 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 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 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 laureate (d. 1989)
  • April 23 - Philip Rood Wheeler, Inventor and Social Activist celebrating his 100th Birthday
  • 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 of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1989)
  • May 23 - Allan Scott, U.S. screenwriter (d. 1995)
  • May 23 - Lucha Reyes, 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, American actor (d. 1996)
  • May 29 - T. H. White, British writer (d. 1964)
  • May 30 - Bruno Gröning, a faith healer in Germany (d. 1959)

  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 12 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
  • June 15 - Léon Degrelle, Belgian fascist (d. 1994)
  • June 19 - Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo pioneer and artist (d. 1995)
  • 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 laureate (d. 1972)
  • June 30 - Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)

  July-August

  • July 1 - Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 2004)
  • July 2 - Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, 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 laureate (d. 1998)
  • July 25 - José Figueres Ferrer, served as President of Costa Rica, (d. 1990)
  • August 5 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, 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-October

  • 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 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 10 - Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
  • October 14 - Imam 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-December

  • 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 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 24 - James Hadley Chase, English crime writer (d. 1985)
  • December 25 - Ernst Ruska, German physicist, 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

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  • 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 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)
  • June 20 - John Clayton Adams, British Landscape Artist (b. 1840)
  • 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

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

  Buildings

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  • Saint Petersburg City Institutions
  • St Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic School
  • Balboa Pavilion in Newport Beach, California

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