1906
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Year 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).
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- January 1 - British India officially adopts Indian Standard Time.
- January 8 - A landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 21.
- January 22 - The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, killing over 100 passengers in the ensuing disaster.
- January 31 - An earthquake (8.6 on the Richter scale) strikes Ecuador.
- 8 February - The Liberal Party, led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman, wins the United Kingdom general election with a large majority.
- February 11 - Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.
- February 15 - Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in the U.K. Parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party.
- February 28 - Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a novel depicting the life of an immigrant family in Chicago during the early 1900s.
- March 10 - An explosion in a coal mine in Courrières, France kills 1,060.
- March 15 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.
- March 17 - The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
- 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 - The first service is held at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles, CA by W.J. Seymour, in a series later known as the Azusa Street Revival, an event which launches the Pentecostal Movement in Christianity.
- April 18 - The 1906 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 Tsarist Russia, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.
- May
- Jack London's novel White Fang is serialized in The Outing Magazine.
- Club Deportivo Guadalajara is founded.
- June
- The first issue of the Annals of the Natal Government Museum (currently African Invertebrates) is published by Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
- June 6 - Durham and Southern Railway operates its first revenue train, Bonsal to Durham, North Carolina.
- June 7 - The RMS Lusitania is launched in Glasgow. It is the world's largest ship.
- 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 end with 50 policemen injured.
- June 22 - Haakon VII and Maud of Wales are crowned rulers of Norway.
- June 25 - Harry K. Thaw shoots architect Stanford White.
- June 29 - Mesa Verde is declared a National Park.
- June 30 - The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
- July 1 - Sporting Clube de Portugal is founded.
- July 6 - The Second Geneva Convention meets.
- 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 16 - A magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Valparaíso, Chile leaves approximately 20,000 dead.
- 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 - Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
- September 11 - Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
- September 18 - A typhoon with a tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 persons in Hong Kong.
- September 22 - Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia result in 27 people killed and the black-owned business district severely damaged.
- September 24 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument.
- September 26 - The first concert of the Telharmonium, the first music synthesizer, is presented at Telharmonic Hall, Broadway at 39th St., New York City.
- 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.
- October 1
- The Grand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to adopt universal suffrage, giving women the right to vote.
- The Madeira School, a private boarding school for girls, opens with 28 students attending classes in 2 buildings on 19th Street, just off Dupont Circle in downtown Washington, DC.
- October 6 - The Majlis of Iran convenes for the first time.
- October 11 - The San Francisco public school board sparks a United States diplomatic crisis with Japan, by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
- October 16 - Imposter Wilhelm Voigt impersonates a Prussian officer and takes over city hall in Köpenick for a short time, amusing all of Germany and other countries.
- October 23 - An aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off at Bagatelle in France and flies 60 meters (200 feet).
- October 28 - The Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust, is created in the Congo.
- November 3 - SOS becomes an international distress signal.
- November 9 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt leaves for a trip to Panama to inspect the construction progress of the Panama Canal (the first time a sitting President of the United States makes an official trip outside of the United States).
- November 22 - Russian Prime Minister Peter Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.
- December 2 - The HMS Dreadnought (the first all-big-gun warship) is commissioned.
- December 4 - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter organization established for African Americans, is founded at Cornell University.
- December 6 - The district of Chimbote is created in Peru.
- December 8 - The Petrified Forest, Arizona is designated a National Monument.
- December 10 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating peace in the Russo-Japanese War (1905).
- December 14 - The world's first submarine, the U-1, enters the German Navy.
- 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 represents the interests of Indian Muslims, is formed.
- The Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunization for tuberculosis is first developed.
- Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior.
- Construction begins on the current Great Mosque of Djenné.
- The muffuletta sandwich is invented in New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Belgian shopkeeper Edgar Everaert creates the Club Union Football(soccer) team.
- The Brown Dog statue is erected in Battersea.
- The Simplo Filler Pen company is founded, later to become the Montblanc Company.
- Algeciras Conference.
- A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals revolt in Persia. The shah is forced to grant a constitution and establish a national assembly, the Majlis.
| Gregorian calendar | 1906 MCMVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2659 |
| Armenian calendar | 1355 ԹՎ ՌՅԾԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | 62 – 63 |
| Berber calendar | 2856 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2450 |
| Burmese calendar | 1268 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7414 – 7415 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年十二月初七日 (4542/4602-12-7) — to —
丙午年十一月十六日(4543/4603-11-16) |
| Coptic calendar | 1622 – 1623 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1898 – 1899 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5666 – 5667 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1961 – 1962 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1828 – 1829 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5007 – 5008 |
| Holocene calendar | 11906 |
| Iranian calendar | 1284 – 1285 |
| Islamic calendar | 1323 – 1324 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiji 39 (明治39年) |
| Korean calendar | 4239 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2449 |
- January 11 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d. 2008)
- January 14 - William Bendix, American actor (d. 1964)
- January 15 - Edna Staebler, Canadian author (d. 2006)
- January 21 - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007)
- January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)
- February 4
- Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d. 1997)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German religious leader and resistance leader (d. 1945)
- February 10
- Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
- Erik Rhodes, American actor (d. 1990)
- February 18 - Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
- February 26 - Madeleine Carroll, British actress (d. 1987)
- February 28 - Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947)
- March 1 - Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000)
- March 4
- Meindert DeJong, American author (d. 1991)
- Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., American businessman (d. 2007)
- March 6 - Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (d. 1978)
- March 7
- Elmar Lipping, Estonian statesman and soldier (d. 1994)
- Thomas Posey, doctor, medical scientist (d. 1990)
- March 16
- Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (d. 1998)
- Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer
- March 19 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (d. 1962)
- March 20 - Ozzie Nelson, American actor and band leader (d. 1975)
- March 26 - Rafael Méndez, Mexican-born trumpet player (d. 1981)
- March 31 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
- 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 22 - Eddie Albert, American actor (d. 2005)
- 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)
- Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)
- 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 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)
- Arturo Uslar-Pietri, Venezuelan writer (d. 2001)
- May 17 - Zinka Milanov, Croatian-born soprano (d. 1989)
- May 19 - Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor (d. 2007)
- May 20 - Giuseppe Siri, Italilan Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1989)
- May 23
- Allan Scott, American screenwriter (d. 1995)
- Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (d. 1944)
- 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 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)
- Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
- June 20
- Catherine Cookson, English author (d. 1998)
- Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (d. 2000)
- June 22
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (d. 2001)
- 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 (d. 2008)
- June 28 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
- June 30 - Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
- 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 3 - George Sanders, British actor (d. 1972)
- July 7 - William Feller, Croatian-born mathematician (d. 1970)
- July 7 - Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
- July 11 - Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
- July 18 - S. I. Hayakawa, English academic and politician (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 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 27 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
- August 28 - John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
- September 1
- Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican politician and writer (d. 2002)
- Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
- September 4 - Max Delbrück, German biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (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 - Raymond D. Mindlin, American mechanician (d. 1987)
- September 17 - Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist
- September 21 - Henry Beachell, American plant breeder (d. 2006)
- September 25 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
- October 6 - Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
- October 9 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, President of Senegal (d. 2001)
- October 10 - Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
- October 14
- Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
- Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (d. 1975)
- October 15 - 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
- Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)
- November 1 - Johnny Indrisano, American boxer and actor (d. 1968)
- 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. 1991)
- November 18
- Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949)
- George Wald, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
- December 5 - Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director (d. 1986)
- December 6 - Ahn Eak-tae, Korean composer (d. 1965)
- December 9 - Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and naval officer (d. 1992)
- December 16 - Barbara Kent, Canadian actress
- 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)
- Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d. 1972)
- January 29 - King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
- February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet and publisher (b. 1872)
- February 13 - Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
- 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 19 - Victor Fatio, Swiss zoologist (b. 1838)
- 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 19 - Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
- 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)
- August 26 - Victor, 5th duc de Broglie (b. 1846)
- September 1 - Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian poet and librettist (b. 1847)
- September 5 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
- October 8 - Adelaide Ristori, Italian actress (b. 1822)
- October 22 - Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
- October 24 - Vladimir Stasov, Russian music critic (b. 1824)
- November 4 - John H. Ketcham, American politician (b. 1832)
- November 16 - Mother Veronica of the Passion, British religious leader (b. 1823)
- December 7 - Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1833)
- December 9 - Ferdinand Brunetière, French critic (b. 1849)
- December 13 - Jan Gerard Palm, Dutch composer (b. 1831)
- December 21 - Acharya Rajendrasuri , Indian religious leader and reformer (b. 1827 )
- Physics - Sir Joseph John Thomson
- Chemistry - Henri Moissan
- Medicine - Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal
- Literature - Giosuè Carducci
- Peace - Theodore Roosevelt
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