1906

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This article is about the year 1906. For other uses, see 1906 (disambiguation).

Year 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar.

Events Edit

January–February Edit

• January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: a nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah to grant a constitution and establish a national assembly, the Majlis.
• January 16–April 7 – Algeciras Conference to resolve the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany.
• January 22 – The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, Canada, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster.
• January 31 – Ecuador-Colombia earthquake (8.8 on the Moment magnitude scale) and associated tsunami.
• February 10 – HMS Dreadnought is launched and sparks the naval race between Britain and Germany.
• February 11 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.

March–April Edit

• March 10 – Courrières mine disaster: an explosion in a coal mine in France kills 1,060.
• March 18 – Traian Vuia makes a short flight in a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft.
• April 7 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
• April 18 – San Francisco earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, USA, 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–June Edit

• May – Jack London's novel White Fang is serialized in The Outing Magazine.
• June 7 – The RMS Lusitania is launched in Glasgow. It is the world's largest ship.

July–August Edit

• July 6 – The Second Geneva Convention meets.
• July 12 – Alfred Dreyfus is exonerated. He is reinstalled in the French Army on July 21, thus ending the Dreyfus affair.
• 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 Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma requests United States intervention. The subsequent provisional occupation administration lasts until 1909.

September–October Edit

• September 11 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
• September 18 – A typhoon and tsunami kill an estimated 10,000 in Hong Kong.
• 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.
• 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 Edit

• 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 2 – HMS Dreadnought, the first all-big-gun warship, is commissioned.
• December 14 – The first German Imperial Navy submarine, U-1 (launched on August 4), is commissioned.
• 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.

Date unknown Edit

• 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 Simplo Filler Pen company is founded, later to become the Montblanc Company.

Births Edit

January–February Edit

• January 11 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d. 2008)
• January 13 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist
• January 14 – William Bendix, American film, radio, and television actor (d. 1964)
• January 15 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975)
• 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 5 – John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988)
• February 7 – Puyi, Last Emperor of China (d. 1967)
• February 10 – Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
• 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 Edit

• March 1 – Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000)
• March 6
  • Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (d. 1978)
  • Lou Costello, American actor (d. 1959)
• March 7 – Elmar Lipping, Estonian statesman and soldier (d. 1994)
• March 16 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer (d. 2009)
• March 19
  • Adolf Eichmann, German war criminal (d. 1962)
  • Roy Roberts, American actor (d. 1975)
• March 25 – A. J. P. Taylor, English historian (d. 1990)
• March 26 – Rafael Méndez, Mexican trumpet player (d. 1981)
• March 31 – Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
• April 1 – Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer (d. 1989)
• April 4 – Bea Benaderet, American actress (d. 1968)
• April 9 – Antal Doráti, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)
• April 13 – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)
• April 19 – Luis Alberti, Dominican Republic musician (d. 1976)
• April 22 – Eddie Albert, American actor (d. 2005)
• April 28
  • Kurt Gödel, Austrian logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (d. 1978)
  • Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)

May–June Edit

• 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 15 – Humberto Delgado, Portuguese general and politician (d. 1965)
• May 16 – Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer (d. 2001)
• May 19 – Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor (d. 2007)
• May 20 – Giuseppe Siri, Italilan 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 12 – Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
• June 15 – Léon Degrelle, Belgian fascist (d. 1994)
• June 19 – Ernst Boris Chain, German-born British biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
• June 22
  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (d. 2001)
  • Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American screenwriter, film director and producer (d. 2002)
• June 24 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)
• June 28 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)

July–August Edit

• July 1 – Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 2004)
• July 2
  • Hans Bethe, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
  • Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984)
• July 3 – George Sanders, British actor (d. 1972)
• July 7
  • William Feller, Croatian-born mathematician (d. 1970)
  • Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
• July 11 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
• July 12 – Pietro Tordi, Italian actor (d. 1990)
• July 23 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
• July 25 – José Figueres Ferrer, President of Costa Rica (d. 1990)
• August 5 – Joan Hickson, British actress (d. 1998)
• August 14 – Horst P. Horst, German photographer (d. 1999)
• August 19 – Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (d. 1971)
• August 21 – Friz Freleng, American cartoon director (d. 1995)
• August 27 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
• August 28 – John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)

September–October Edit

• September 1
  • Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican politician and writer (d. 2002)
  • Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
  • Eleanor Burford, English writer (d. 1993)
• September 4 – Max Delbrück, German biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
• September 6 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-born Argentine chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
• September 8 – Andrei Kirilenko (politician), Soviet politician (d. 1990)
• September 17 – Junius Richard Jayewardene, President of Sri Lanka (d. 1996)
• 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 23 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
• October 24 – Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (d. 1996)
• October 26 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (d. 1967)
• October 27 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (d. 2010)

November–December Edit

• November 2 – Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and cinema director and writer (d. 1976)
• November 5 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
• November 13 – Hermione Baddeley, English character actress (d. 1986)
• November 14 – Louise Brooks, American actress (d. 1985)
• November 15 – Curtis LeMay, United States Air Force general (d. 1990)
• 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 laureate (d. 1997)
  • Alec Issigonis, Greek-born British automobile designer (d. 1988)
• December 5 – Otto Preminger, Austrian-born American film director (d. 1986)
• December 6 – Ahn Eak-tai, Korean composer (d. 1965)
• December 9 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and naval officer (d. 1992)
• December 19 – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader (d. 1982)
• December 24 – James Hadley Chase, English writer (d. 1985)
• December 25 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
• December 26 – Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (d. 2003)
• December 27 – Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d. 1972)

Deaths Edit

January–June Edit

• January 19 – Bartolomé Mitre President of Argentina (b. 1821)
• January 25 – Joseph Wheeler, American general and politician (b. 1836)
• January 29 – King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
• February 13 – Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
• February 27 – Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (b. 1834)
• March 4 – John Schofield, American general (b. 1831)
• March 8 – Henry Baker Tristram, English clergyman, and ornithologist. (b. 1822)
• 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 Raškaj, Croatian painter (b. 1877)
• April 6 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b. 1849)
• April 19
  • Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
  • Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
• May 14 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and American statesman (b. 1829)
• May 23 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (b. 1828)
• June 17 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess champion (b. 1872)
• June 25 – Stanford White, American architect (b. 1853)

July–December Edit

• 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)
• December 7 – Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and activist, Nobel laureate (b. 1833)
• December 13 – Jan Gerard Palm, Dutch composer (b. 1831)

Nobel Prizes Edit

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

References Edit

People of the year 1906 at Familypedia

139 people were born in 1906

47 children were born to the 63 women born in 1906

193 people died in 1906

15632 people lived in 1906

Events of the year 1906 at FamilypediaEdit

224 people were married in 1906.

There were 0 military battles in 1906.