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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.
Calendar year
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January 31 :
Ecuador earthquake (8.8).
March 4 – Native American tribal governments are terminated in
Indian Territory , a prerequisite for creating the US state of
Oklahoma in
1907 .
March 10 –
Courrières mine disaster : An explosion in a coal mine in France kills 1,060.
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 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.
Xerox , the global
digital
office machine brand, is founded in
Rochester, New York as the Haloid Photographic Company.
[2]
April 23 – In the
Russian Empire , the
Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state
Duma .
The ruins of
San Francisco following the
April 18 earthquake and later fires
September 11 –
Mahatma Gandhi coins the term
Satyagraha , to characterize the
nonviolence movement in South Africa.
September 18 – A
typhoon and
tsunami kill an estimated 10,000 in Hong Kong.
[4]
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 1 –
International Exhibition opens in
Christchurch , New Zealand.
November 3 –
SOS becomes adopted internationally as a
distress signal (originally for ship-to-shore
wireless telegraphy ) on inclusion in the service regulations of the first
International Radiotelegraph Convention signed in Berlin and coming into effect on 1 July 1908.
[5]
November 18 – The steamboat
Dix sinks en route from
Seattle to
Port Blakely claiming the lives of approximately 50 passengers and crew.
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 22 – The Mw 7.9
1906 Manasi earthquake in Xinjiang, China kills nearly 300 people.
[6]
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 .
John Carradine
Clyde Tombaugh
Puyi
Nazim al-Qudsi
Galo Plaza
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 20 –
Bretaigne Windust , American stage, film and television director (d.
1960 )
January 21 –
Igor Moiseyev , Russian choreographer (d.
2007 )
January 22 –
Robert E. Howard , American pulp fiction writer (suicide
1936 )
January 28 –
Pat O'Callaghan , Irish athlete (d.
1991 )
February 4
February 5 –
John Carradine , American actor (d.
1988 )
February 7
February 8 –
Chester Carlson , American physicist, inventor (d.
1968 )
February 10
February 14 –
Nazim al-Qudsi , 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 (k.
1947 )
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
Bea Benaderet
Samuel Beckett
Eddie Albert
Tony Accardo
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 13 –
Dave Kaye , British pianist (d.
1996 )
[10]
[11]
March 16 –
Francisco Ayala , Spanish writer (d.
2009 )
March 17
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 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)
[13]
Mary Astor
Roberto Rossellini
Josephine Baker
Sir
Ernst Chain
Maria Goeppert Mayer
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 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 –
Max August Zorn , German-born American mathematician (d.
1993 )
June 10 –
Tekla Juniewicz , Polish supercentenarian, oldest Polish person ever, last surviving person born in 1906 (d.
2022 )
June 12 –
Sandro Penna , Italian poet (d.
1977 )
June 15 –
Léon Degrelle , Belgian fascist (d.
1994 )
June 17
June 19 – Sir
Ernst 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 )
Hans Bethe
Alberto Lleras Camargo
George Sanders
Satchel Paige
Vladimir Prelog
Marie-José of Belgium
Sir
John Betjeman
Joaquín Balaguer
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 )
[15]
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 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 )
Max Delbrück
José Figueres Ferrer
September 1
September 2 –
Barbara Jo Allen , American actress (d.
1974 )
September 4 –
Max Delbrück , German biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1981 )
September 5
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 )
Janet Gaynor
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Luchino Visconti
Wanrong
Leonid Brezhnev
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
November 15 –
Curtis LeMay , United States Air Force general, vice-presidential candidate (d.
1990 )
November 16 –
Henri Charrière , French author (d.
1973 )
November 17
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 )
[18]
December 26 –
Imperio Argentina , Argentinian singer, actress (d.
2003 )
December 27 –
Oscar Levant , American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d.
1972 )
December 30
Bartolomé Mitre
Pierre Curie
Christian IX of Denmark
Manuel Quintana
January 1 –
Todor Ivanchov , 11th
Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b.
1858 )
January 13 –
Alexander Stepanovich Popov , Russian physicist (b.
1859 )
[19]
January 18 – Sir
William Forbes 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 9 –
Paul Laurence Dunbar , American poet and publisher (b.
1872 )
[20]
February 13 –
Albert Gottschalk , Danish painter (b.
1866 )
February 18 –
John B. Stetson , American hat maker (b.
1830 )
February 26 –
Jean Lanfray , Swiss convicted murderer (b.
1874 )
[21]
February 27 –
Samuel Langley , American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (b.
1834 )
[22]
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 17 –
Johann Most , German-American anarchist (b.
1846 )
[23]
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 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 )
[24]
May 23 –
Henrik Ibsen , Norwegian playwright (b.
1828 )
June 5 –
Eduard von Hartmann , German philosopher (b.
1842 )
[25]
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 )
Carlos Pellegrini
Aniceto Arce
Saint
Ezequiél Moreno y Díaz
Paul Cézanne
Archduke Otto of Austria
Todor Burmov
July 1 –
Manuel García , Spanish opera singer, music educator and vocal pedagogue (b.
1805 )
July 11 –
Grace Brown , American murder/and or drowning victim (b.
1886 )
July 17 –
Carlos Pellegrini , 11th
President of Argentina (b.
1846 )
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 )
[26]
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 7 –
Todor Burmov , 1st
Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b.
1834 )
November 9 – Saint
Elizabeth of the Trinity , French
Discalced Carmelite religious professed and saint (b.
1880 )
November 12 –
William Rufus Shafter , American general (b.
1835 )
November 16 – Mother
Veronica of the Passion , Ottoman-born religious leader (b.
1823 )
November 19 , –
Georgia Cayvan , American stage actress (b.
1857 )
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 )
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