1906

Years: 1903 1904 1905 - 1906 - 1907 1908 1909

Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 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 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 coalmine in Courrières, France kills 1060
• March 15 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered
• March 18 - 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. The estimated magnitude of the earthquake is 7.8.
• June 9 -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 18 - Typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10.000 persons in Hong Kong
• October 3 - SOS becomes an international distress signal
• 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 28 - Creation of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust in Congo.
• 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 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

• February 4 - Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d. 1997)
• March 1 - Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of both North Vietnam and Reunified Vietnam (d. 2000)
• March 16 - Henny Youngman, English born American comedian (d. 1998)
• March 19 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (d. 1962)
• March 31 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
• April 9 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)
• April 13 - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer (d. 1989)
• April 25 - William J. Brennan, American Judge (d. 1997)
• May 6 - André Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998)
• May 28 - 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 who joined the Waffen SS (d. 1994)
• June 19 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)
• June 20 - Catherine Cookson, English author (d. 1998)
• June 20 -Robert Trent Jones, Anglo-American golf course designer (d. 2000)
• June 22 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh American author and aviator (d. 2001)
• June 24 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)
• June 28 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
• July 1 - Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 2004)
• July 2 - Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
• 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 25 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian Composer (d. 1975)
• October 10 - Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan Indian novelist (d. 2001)
• October 14 - Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian Islamist, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
• October 23 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
• November 5 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
• November 18 - Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949)
• December 5 - Otto Preminger, film director (d. 1986)
• December 25 - Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)

Deaths

• January 29 - Christian IX, King 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)
• 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)

Marriages

• January 6 - Frederick Truesdell & Ethel Claire Dovey
• January 23 - Igor Stravinsky & Katherine Nossenko
• January 31 - Arthur B. Reeve & Margaret Allen Wilson
• February 13 - Alice Roosevelt Longworth & Nicholas Longworth
• May 5 - James F. Byrnes & Maude Busch
• May 14 - Linda Arvidson & D.W. Griffith
• May 31 - Victoria Eugenia & Alfonso XIII
• June 27 - Frank Joslyn Baum & Helen Louise Snow
• July 13 - Louis Payne & Mrs. Leslie Carter
• September 5 - Kathleen Kerrigan & Clay Clement
• September 15 - Paul Klee & Lily Stumpf
• October 20 - Clara Pontoppidan & Carlo Wieth
• November 1 - Theo Thijssen & Johanna Maria Zeegerman
• November 25 - Wladyslaw Starewicz & Anna Zimmerman

Nobel Prizes

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

Buildings

St Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic School