1906

1906 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1906; MCMVI
Ab urbe condita	2659
Armenian calendar	1355; ԹՎ ՌՅԾԵ
Assyrian calendar	6656
Baháʼí calendar	62–63
Balinese saka calendar	1827–1828
Bengali calendar	1313
Berber calendar	2856
British Regnal year	5 Edw. 7 – 6 Edw. 7
Buddhist calendar	2450
Burmese calendar	1268
Byzantine calendar	7414–7415
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake); 4603 or 4396; — to —; 丙午年 (Fire Horse); 4604 or 4397
Coptic calendar	1622–1623
Discordian calendar	3072
Ethiopian calendar	1898–1899
Hebrew calendar	5666–5667
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1962–1963
- Shaka Samvat	1827–1828
- Kali Yuga	5006–5007
Holocene calendar	11906
Igbo calendar	906–907
Iranian calendar	1284–1285
Islamic calendar	1323–1324
Japanese calendar	Meiji 39; (明治３９年)
Javanese calendar	1835–1836
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4239
Minguo calendar	6 before ROC; 民前6年
Nanakshahi calendar	438
Thai solar calendar	2448–2449
Tibetan calendar	阴木蛇年; (female Wood-Snake); 2032 or 1651 or 879; — to —; 阳火马年; (male Fire-Horse); 2033 or 1652 or 880

1906 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1906; MCMVI
Ab urbe condita	2659
Armenian calendar	1355; ԹՎ ՌՅԾԵ
Assyrian calendar	6656
Baháʼí calendar	62–63
Balinese saka calendar	1827–1828
Bengali calendar	1313
Berber calendar	2856
British Regnal year	5 Edw. 7 – 6 Edw. 7
Buddhist calendar	2450
Burmese calendar	1268
Byzantine calendar	7414–7415
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake); 4603 or 4396; — to —; 丙午年 (Fire Horse); 4604 or 4397
Coptic calendar	1622–1623
Discordian calendar	3072
Ethiopian calendar	1898–1899
Hebrew calendar	5666–5667
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1962–1963
- Shaka Samvat	1827–1828
- Kali Yuga	5006–5007
Holocene calendar	11906
Igbo calendar	906–907
Iranian calendar	1284–1285
Islamic calendar	1323–1324
Japanese calendar	Meiji 39; (明治３９年)
Javanese calendar	1835–1836
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4239
Minguo calendar	6 before ROC; 民前6年
Nanakshahi calendar	438
Thai solar calendar	2448–2449
Tibetan calendar	阴木蛇年; (female Wood-Snake); 2032 or 1651 or 879; — to —; 阳火马年; (male Fire-Horse); 2033 or 1652 or 880

Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years:	1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909

1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

Events

January 1 - British India officially adopts the Indian Standard Time.
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.
February 28 - Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a novel depicting the life of an immigrant family living in Chicago during the early 1900s.
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.
March 27 - The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg by Elizabeth Parker and Arthur Oliver Wheeler
April 7 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
April 14 - First service held at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles, CA by W.J. Seymour in a series later known as the Azusa Street Revival
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 22 - The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, is manufactured.
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 27 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 - Grand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to adopt universal suffrage (including minorities and women as candidates).
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

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.
Belgian shopkeeper Edgar Everaert creates Club Union Football(soccer) team.

Births

January

January 11 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist
January 14 - William Bendix, American actor (d. 1964)
January 15 - Edna Staebler, Canadian author (d. 2006)
January 21 - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer
January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)

February

February 4 - Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d. 1997)
February 4 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German religious leader and resistance leader (d. 1945)
February 10 - Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
February 10 - Erik Rhodes, American actor (d. 1990)
February 18 - Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
February 26 - Madeleine Carroll, British actress (d. 1997)
February 28 - Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947)

March

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 7 - Thomas Posey, doctor, medical scientist (d. 1990)
March 12 - Yin Shun, Chinese Buddhist master (d. 2005)
March 16 - Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (d. 1998)
March 16 - Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer
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 26 - Rafael Méndez, Mexican-born trumpet virtuoso (d. 1981)
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 25 - William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997)
April 28 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (d. 1978)
April 28 - Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)

May

May 3 - Mary Astor, American actress (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 12 - Maurice Ewing, American 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 19 - Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor
May 20 - Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, Italilan Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1989)
May 23 - Allan Scott, American screenwriter (d. 1995)
May 23 - Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (d. 1944)
May 23 - Willis Hudlin, baseball player (d. 2002)
May 27 - Buddhadasa, 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, German faith healer (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 mathematician (d. 1993)
June 12 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
June 15 - Léon Degrelle, Belgian fascist (d. 1994)
June 19 - Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo pioneer, artist, inventor (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, Austrian-born screenwriter, film director and producer (d. 2002)
June 24 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)
June 26 - Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer
June 28 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
June 30 - Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)

July

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-born mathematician (d. 1970)
July 7? - Satchel Paige, black baseball player (d. 1982)
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, President of Costa Rica (d. 1990)

August

August 6 - Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
August 9 - Robert Surtees, American cinematographer (d. 1985)
August 12 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (d. 1972)
August 14 - Horst P. Horst, German photographer (d. 1999)
August 28 - John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)

September

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 17 - Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist
September 21 - Henry Beachell, American plant breeder
September 25 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)

October

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, American businessman and politician (d. 2004)
October 23 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
October 24 - Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (d. 1996)
October 27 - Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer
October 27 - Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)

November

November 2 - Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and cinema director and writer (d. 1976)
November 5 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
November 13 - Eva Zeisel, Hungarian-born industrial designer
November 14 - Louise Brooks, American actress (d. 1985)
November 16 - Henri Charrière, French author (d. 1973)
November 17 - Soichiro Honda, Japanese industrialist (d. 1973)
November 17 - Rollie Stiles, baseball player
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

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, American computer scientist and naval officer (d. 1992)
December 16 - Barbara Kent, Canadian actress
December 17 - William McChesney Martin, Jr., Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve (d. 1986)
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 and actress (d. 2003)
December 27 - Andreas Feininger, French-born photographer (d. 1999)
December 27 - Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d. 1972)

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 laureate (b. 1859)
April 24 - Mary Hunt, American temperance activist (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 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

Buildings

Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years:	1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909