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1906 (MCMVI ) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar , the 1906th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 906th year of the 2nd millennium , the 6th year of the 20th century , and the 7th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1906, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
1906
Events
January–February
March–April
March 4 – Native American tribal governments are terminated in Indian Territory , a prerequisite for creating the state of Oklahoma in 1907 .
March 10
March 18 – In France, Romanian inventor Traian Vuia becomes the first person to achieve an unassisted takeoff in a heavier-than-air powered monoplane , but it is incapable of sustained flight.
April 7 – Mount Vesuvius erupts, devastating Naples .
April 14 – The Azusa Street Revival , the primary catalyst for the revival of Pentecostalism this century, opens in Los Angeles .
April 18 – The 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 the Russian Empire , the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma .
May–June
July–August
September–October
September 11 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha , to characterize the nonviolence movement in South Africa.
September 12 – The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar .
September 18 – A typhoon and tsunami kill an estimated 10,000 in Hong Kong.[3]
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 , England.
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 (it is resolved by next year ).
October 16 – Imposter Wilhelm Voigt impersonates a Prussian officer, and takes over the 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 .
November–December
November 3 – SOS becomes an international distress signal.
November 22 – Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms , aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.
December 4 – Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity forms at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; it is the first Black Greek-lettered collegiate order of its kind.
December 15 – The London Underground 's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
December 24 – Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts .
December 26 – The world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang , is first shown, at the Melbourne Athenaeum in Australia.
December 30 – The All-India Muslim League is founded as a political party in Dhaka in the British Raj ; it becomes a driving force for the creation of an independent Pakistan .
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Births
January–February
Puyi , Last Emperor of China
January 6 – Walter Battiss , South African artist (d. 1982 )
January 11 – Albert Hofmann , Swiss chemist (d. 2008 )
January 12 – Eric Birley , British historian and archaeologist (d. 1995 )
January 13 – Zhou Youguang , Chinese linguist (d. 2017 )
January 14 – William Bendix , American film, radio, and television actor (d. 1964 )
January 15 – Aristotle Onassis , Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975 )
January 16 – Diana Wynyard , English actress (d. 1964 )
January 21 – Igor Moiseyev , Russian choreographer (d. 2007 )
January 22 – Robert E. Howard , American author (d. 1936 )
January 28 – Pat O'Callaghan , Irish athlete (d. 1991)
February 3 – Ilona Banga , Hungarian biochemist (d. 1998 )
February 4
February 5
February 7
February 8 – Chester Carlson , American physicist, inventor (d. 1968 )
February 10
February 14 – Nazim al-Kudsi , 26th Prime Minister of Syria and 14th President of Syria (d. 1998 )
February 17
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 )
March–April
March 1
March 6 – Lou Costello , American actor (d. 1959 )
March 7 – Elmar Lipping , Estonian statesman, soldier (d. 1994 )
March 8 – Victor Hasselblad , Swedish inventor, photographer (d. 1978 )
March 12 – Yin Shun , Chinese Buddhist master (d. 2005 )
March 16 – Francisco Ayala , Spanish writer (d. 2009 )
March 17 – Brigitte Helm , German film actress (d. 1996 )
March 19
March 20 – Ozzie Nelson , American actor, director and producer (d. 1975 )
March 21 – Jim Thompson , American businessman (disappeared 1967 )
March 25 – A. J. P. Taylor , English historian (d. 1990 )
March 26
March 31 – Shin'ichirō Tomonaga , Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979 )
April 1 – Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev , Russian engineer, airplane designer (d. 1989 )
April 4 – Bea Benaderet , American actress (d. 1968 )
April 6 – Luis Alberti , Dominican Republic musician (d. 1976 )
April 6 – Virginia Hall , American spy with the Special Operations Executive during WWII (d. 1982 )
April 9 – Antal Doráti , Hungarian conductor (d. 1988 )
April 11 – Julia Clements , English flower arranger and author (d. 2010 )
April 13 – Samuel Beckett , Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989 )
April 14 – Broda Otto Barnes , American medical researcher (d. 1988 )
April 22 – Eddie Albert , American actor and activist (d. 2005 )
April 24 – William Joyce , Irish-American World War II Nazi propaganda broadcaster ("Lord Haw-Haw") (d. 1946 )
April 25
April 28
April 29 – Pedro Vargas , Mexican singer and actor (d. 1989)[5]
May–June
May 2 – Philippe Halsman , Latvian-born American photographer (d. 1979 )
May 3 – Mary Astor , American actress and writer (d. 1987 )
May 4 – Esmond Knight , English actor (d. 1987 )
May 6 – André Weil , French mathematician (d. 1998 )
May 7 – Jon Lormer , American actor (d. 1986 )
May 8 – Roberto Rossellini , Italian director (d. 1977 )
May 10 – António Ferreira Gomes , Portuguese Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1989 )
May 11
May 15 – Humberto Delgado , Portuguese general, politician (d. 1965 )
May 16 – Arturo Uslar Pietri , Venezuelan writer (d. 2001 )
May 17 – Jack Carr , American actor and animator (d. 1967 )
May 19
May 20 – Giuseppe Siri , Italian 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
June 12 – Sandro Penna , Italian poet (d. 1977 )
June 15 – Léon Degrelle , Belgian fascist (d. 1994 )
June 17
June 19 – Ernst Boris Chain , German-born British biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979 )
June 21 – Grete Sultan , German-American pianist (d. 2005 )
June 22
June 24
June 26
June 27 – Catherine Cookson , English author (d. 1998 )
June 28
June 29 – Heinz Harmel , German officer (d. 2000 )
July–August
July 1
July 2
July 3
July 4 – Vincent Schaefer , American chemist, meteorologist (d. 1993 )
July 7
July 8 – Philip Johnson , American architect (d. 2005 )
July 9 – Roy Leaper , Australian rules footballer (d. 2002 )
July 10 – Ad Liska , American baseball pitcher (d. 1998 )
July 11 – Herbert Wehner , German politician (d. 1990 )
July 12 – Pietro Tordi , Italian actor (d. 1990 )
July 14 – Stan Devenish Meares , Australian obstetrician, gynaecologist (d. 1994 )
July 16
July 17
July 18
July 21 – Caroline Smith , American diver (d. 1994 )
July 23 – Vladimir Prelog , Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998 )
August 5
August 5 – Marie-José of Belgium , last Queen of Italy (d. 2001 )
August 14 – Horst P. Horst , German photographer (d. 1999 )
August 17 – Marcelo Caetano , Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980 )
August 19 – Philo Farnsworth , American inventor (d. 1971 )
August 21 – Friz Freleng , American cartoon director (d. 1995 )
August 23 – Zoltan Sarosy , Canadian chess master (d. 2017 )
August 26 – Albert Sabin , Polish-American medical researcher (d. 1993 )
August 27 – Ed Gein , American serial killer (d. 1984 )
August 28 – John Betjeman , English poet (d. 1984 )
August 30 – Joan Blondell , American actress (d. 1979 )
September
September 1
September 2 – Barbara Jo Allen , American actress (d. 1974 )
September 4 – Max Delbrück , German biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981 )
September 6 – Luis Federico Leloir , French-born Argentine chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987 )
September 8 – Andrei Kirilenko , Soviet politician (d. 1990 )
September 12 – Lee Erwin , American television writer (d. 1972 )
September 17 – J. R. Jayewardene , President of Sri Lanka (d. 1996 )
September 25
September 27 – William Empson , English poet, critic (d. 1984 )
October
November–December
November 2
November 4 – Willie Love , American Delta blues pianist (d. 1953 )
November 5
November 9 – Arthur Rudolph , German rocket engineer (d. 1996 )
November 10 – Josef Kramer , German Nazi concentration camp commandant (d. 1945 )
November 13
November 14 – Louise Brooks , American actress (d. 1985 )
November 15 – Curtis LeMay , United States Air Force general, vice-presidential candidate (d. 1990 )
November 16 – Henri Charrière , French author (d. 1973 )
November 17 – Soichiro Honda , Japanese industrialist (d. 1991 )
November 18
November 19 – Patriarch Paul II Cheikho (b. 1989 )
November 22 – Jørgen Juve , Norwegian football player and journalist (d. 1983 )
November 24 – Don MacLaughlin , American actor (d. 1986 )
December 2
December 5 – Ahn Eak-tai , Korean composer (d. 1965 )
December 9 – Grace Hopper , American computer scientist, naval officer (d. 1992 )
December 13
December 19 – Leonid Brezhnev , Soviet leader (d. 1982 )
December 24 – James Hadley Chase , English writer (d. 1985 )
December 25 – Ernst Ruska , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988 )
December 26 – Imperio Argentina , Argentinian singer, actress (d. 2003 )
December 27 – Oscar Levant , American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d. 1972 )
December 30
Deaths
January–June
January 1 – Todor Ivanchov , 11th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1858 )
January 18 – Sir William Gatacre , British general (b. 1843 )
January 19 – Bartolomé Mitre , Argentine statesman, military figure and author, 6th President of Argentina (b. 1821 )
January 20 – Maria Cristina of the Immaculate Conception Brando , Italian Roman Catholic nun, saint (b. 1856 )
January 25 – Joseph Wheeler , American general, politician (b. 1836 )
January 29 – King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818 )
February 8 – Giuseppina Gabriella Bonino , Italian Roman Catholic religious professed (b. 1843 )
February 13 – Albert Gottschalk , Danish painter (b. 1866 )
February 18 – John B. Stetson , American hat maker (b. 1830 )
February 27 – Samuel Pierpont Langley , American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (b. 1834 )
March 1 – José María de Pereda , Spanish writer (b. 1833 )
March 4 – John Schofield , American general (b. 1831 )
March 8 – Henry Baker Tristram , English clergyman, ornithologist (b. 1822 )
March 12 – Manuel Quintana , 15th President of Argentina (b. 1835 )
March 13
March 19 – Victor Fatio , Swiss zoologist (b. 1838 )
March 20 – Adeline Dutton Train Whitney , American author of juvenile literature for girls (b. 1824 )
March 23 – Thomas Lake Harris , American poet (b. 1823 )
March 29
April 6 – Alexander Kielland , Norwegian author (b. 1849 )
April 11 – Francis Pharcellus Church , American publisher and editor (b. 1839 )
April 18 – Artie Hall , American Vaudeville comedian, San Francisco Earthquake (b. 1881 )
April 19
April 25 – John Knowles Paine , American composer (b. 1839 )
May 10 – Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin , Sultan of Brunei (b. 1825 )
May 14 – Carl Schurz , German revolutionary, American statesman (b. 1829 )
May 23 – Henrik Ibsen , Norwegian playwright (b. 1828 )
June 5 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann , German philosopher (b. 1842 )
June 10 – Richard Seddon , 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1845 )
June 17 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury , American chess champion (b. 1872 )
June 25 – Stanford White , American architect (b. 1853 )
July–December
July 1 – Manuel García , Spanish opera singer, music educator and vocal pedagogue (b. 1805 )
July 11 – Grace Brown , American murder victim whose story became a famous court case (b. 1886 )
July 17 – Carlos Pellegrini , 11th President of Argentina (b. 1846 )
August 4 – Charles J. Train , American admiral (b. 1845 )
August 6 – George Waterhouse , 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824 )
August 14 – Aniceto Arce , 27th President of Bolivia (b. 1824 )
August 19 – Ezequiél Moreno y Díaz , Colombian Roman Catholic priest, saint (b. 1848 )
September 1 – Giuseppe Giacosa , Italian poet, librettist (b. 1847 )
September 5 – Ludwig Boltzmann , Austrian physicist (b. 1854 )
September 13 – Emily Pitts Stevens , American school founder (b. 1841 )
September 23 – August Bondeson , Swedish author (b. 1844 )
October 9 – Adelaide Ristori , Italian actress (b. 1822 )
October 16 – Varina Davis , First Lady of the Confederate States of America (b. 1826 )
October 19
October 22 – Paul Cézanne , French painter (b. 1839 )
October 23 – Vladimir Stasov , Russian music critic (b. 1824 )
October 30 – Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook , British politician (b. 1814 )
November 1 – Archduke Otto of Austria (b. 1865 )
November 4 – John H. Ketcham , American politician and Union army general (b. 1832 )
November 7 – Todor Burmov , 1st Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1834 )
November 9 – Elizabeth of the Trinity , French Discalced Carmelite religious professed and saint (b. 1880 )
November 12 – William R. Shafter , American general (b. 1835 )
November 16 – Mother Veronica of the Passion , Ottoman-born religious leader (b. 1823 )
November 28 – Jennie Yeamans , Australian-born American actress (b. 1862 )
November 30 – Sir Edward Reed , British naval architect, author, politician, and railroad magnate (b. 1830 )
December 7 – Élie Ducommun , Swiss journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833 )
December 8 – Sylvia Gerrish , American musical theatre star (b. 1860 )
December 13 – Jan Gerard Palm , Dutch composer (b. 1831 )
December 21 – Rajendrasuri , Indian religious reformer (b. 1827 )
December 30 – Josephine Butler , British feminist, social reformer (b. 1828 )
Nobel Prizes
References
^ Stuart, J. (1913). History of the Zulu Rebellion 1906 . London: Macmillan and Co. pp. 548–581 .
^ https://www.sporting.pt/en/club/history/founding-members - Founding Members | Official website of Sporting Clube De Portugal - Accessed on 4-1-2019
^ "Hongkong Typhoon" . Auckland Star . 37 (244). New Zealand. October 19, 1906. p. 5. Retrieved December 30, 2017 . Over 1,000 bodies are recovered, but cabled statements are verified that the number of lives lost totalled about 10,000. Retrieved via Papers Past .
^ "About the club - Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club" . Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club . Retrieved June 12, 2018 .
^ "Pedro Vargas" , Last.fm (in Spanish), retrieved August 24, 2019
Sources
Further reading
Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 123 – 42.
Hazell's Annual for 1907 (1907), worldwide events of 1906; 734pp online