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Events of 1906

January 31: Ecuador earthquake (8.6).

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January - February

• January 1 - British India officially adopts Indian Standard Time.
• January 8 - Landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20.
• January 31 - earthquake in Ecuador (8.6 on the Richter scale).

February 28: The Jungle.

• 8 February - The Liberal Party led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman win 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 UK 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.

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March - April

• March 10 - Explosion in coal mine in Courrières, France kills 1060.
• March 15 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.
• March 17 - Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
• March 18 - Traian Vuia flies a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft.

March 15: Rolls-Royce

• 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 - The 1906 San Francisco earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3000, with 225,000-300,000 left homeless, $350 million in damages.
• April 23 - In Tsarist Russia, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.

The ruins of San Francisco following the April 18 earthquake and later fires

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Росси́йская Импе́рия, (also Imperial Russia) covers the period of Russian history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great into the Russian Empire stretching from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposition of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start of the Russian Revolution... The first Russian constitution, known as the Fundamental Laws was enacted on April 23, 1906, on the eve of the opening of the first State Duma. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with State Duma. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 775 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1408 × 1090 pixel, file size: 325 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)The ruins of San Francisco, still smoldering after the 1906 earthquake, taken from the tower of the Union Ferry Building, and looking southwest down Market Street. ... 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May - June

• May
  • Jack London's novel White Fang is serialized in The Outing Magazine.
  • Club Deportivo Guadalajara is founded.
• June 6 - Durham & South Carolina Railroad 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 - 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 declared a National Park.
• June 30 - United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.

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July - August

• July 1 - Sporting Clube de Portugal founded.
• July 6 - Second Geneva Convention.
• 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.

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September - October

• 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.
• September 30 - The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team piloted the balloon "United States" landed in Fylingdales, Yorkshire.
• October 1
  • 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 twenty-eight students attending classes in two 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 - 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 - 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 - 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.

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November - December

• 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 (the first time a sitting President of the United States makes 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 2 - HMS Dreadnought commissioned. First all-big-gun warship.
• December 4 - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter organization established for African Americans, is founded at Cornell University.
• December 6 - Creation of district of Chimbote.
• December 9 - Grace Murray Hopper, pioneer computer scientist, is born in New York City, New York.
• December 10 - Pres. 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 Unterseeboot 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 represented the interests of Indian Muslims, is formed.

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Undated

• Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunization for tuberculosis 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 Club Union Football(soccer) team.
• The Brown Dog statue is erected in Battersea.

An apparatus (4-5 cm length, with nine short needles) used for BCG vaccination in Japan. ... Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or Tuberculosis) is a common and deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacteria, mainly Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ... Richard Dixon Oldham (July 31, 1858 – July 15, 1936) was a British geologist who, in 1906, argued that the Earth must have a molten interior as S waves were not able to travel through liquids nor through the Earths interior. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... The Great Mosques signature trio of minarets overlooks the central market of Djenné. The Great Mosque of Djenné is the largest mud brick building in the world and is considered by many architects to be the greatest achievement of the Sudano-Sahelian architectural style, albeit with definite Islamic influences. ... Central Grocery, origin of the muffuletta. ... NOLA redirects here. ... National motto: Dutch: Eendracht maakt macht; French: Lunion fait la force; German: Einigkeit macht stark (English: Strength lies in unity) Official language Dutch, French, German Capital Brussels Largest City Brussels King Albert II Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 148th 30,528 km² 6. ... Edgar Everaert Edgar Everaert (born in Bruges, Belgium) was the founder of Club Deportivo Guadalajara. ... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... The Brown Dog affair was a controversy and cause célèbre for a brief period in Edwardian England, from 1903 to 1910, and revolving around vivisection and a statue erected in memory of a dog killed in the cause of medical research. ... Battersea is a place in the London Borough of Wandsworth. ...

Births

For the calendar of religious holidays and periods, see liturgical year. ... Ab urbe condita (related with Anno urbis conditae: AUC or a. ... The Armenian calendar uses the Armenian numerals. ... The Baháí calendar, also called the Badí‘ calendar, used by the Baháí Faith, is a solar calendar with regular years of 365 days, and leap years of 366 days. ... The Berber calendar is the annual calendar used by Berber people in North Africa. ... The Buddhist calendar is used on mainland southeast Asia in the countries of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar (formerly Burma) in several related forms. ... This article or section uses Burmese characters which may be rendered incorrectly. ... The Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar, incorporating elements of a lunar calendar with those of a solar calendar. ... The Chinese sexagenary cycle (Chinese: ; pinyin: ) is a cyclic numeral system of 60 combinations of the two basic cycles, the ten Heavenly Stems (天干; tiāngān) and the twelve Earthly Branches (地支; dìzhī). These have been traditionally used as a means of numbering days and years, not only in China... The Chinese sexagenary cycle (Chinese: ; pinyin: ) is a cyclic numeral system of 60 combinations of the two basic cycles, the ten Heavenly Stems (天干; tiāngān) and the twelve Earthly Branches (地支; dìzhī). These have been traditionally used as a means of numbering days and years, not only in China... The Coptic calendar, also called the Alexandrian calendar, is used by the Coptic Orthodox Church. ... The Ethiopian calendar (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ዘመን አቆጣጠር ), also called the Geez calendar, is the principal calendar used in Ethiopia and is also the liturgical year of Christians in Eritrea belonging to the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church, Eastern Catholic Church of Eritrea and Lutheran (Evangelical Church of Eritrea), where it is commonly known... The Hebrew calendar (‎) or Jewish calendar is the calendar used by Jews for religious purposes. ... 5666 (Hebrew: התרסו , abbr. ... 5667 (Hebrew: התרסז , abbr. ... A page from the Hindu calendar 1871-72. ... It has been suggested that Bikram Samwat be merged into this article or section. ... The Indian national calendar (sometimes called Saka calendar) is the official civil calendar in use in India. ... Kali Yuga is also the title of a book by Roland Charles Wagner. ... H.E. redirects here. ... The Iranian calendar (Persian: ), also known as Persian calendar or (mistakenly) the Jalāli Calendar is an astronomical solar calendar currently used in Iran and Afghanistan as the main official calendar. ... The Islamic calendar or Muslim calendar (Arabic: التقويم الهجري; at-taqwīm al-hijrī; Persian: تقویم هجري قمری ‎ taqwīm-e hejri-ye qamari; also called the Hijri calendar) is the calendar used to date events in many predominantly Muslim countries, and used by Muslims everywhere to determine the proper day on which to celebrate... Koinobori, flags decorated like koi, are popular decorations around Childrens Day This mural on the wall of a Tokyo subway station celebrates Hazuki, the eighth month. ... The Meiji period ), or Meiji era, denotes the 45-year reign of Emperor Meiji, running, in the Gregorian calendar, from 23 October 1868 to 30 July 1912. ... Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. ... The traditional Korean calendar is a lunisolar calendar which, like the traditional calendars of other East Asian countries, was based on the Chinese calendar. ... The Thai solar, or Suriyakati (สุริยคติ), calendar is used in traditional and official contexts in Thailand, although the Western calendar is sometimes used in business. ...

January-February

• 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)

is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Albert Hofmann (born January 11, 1906) is a Swiss scientist best known for synthesizing Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... William Bendix (January 14, 1906 - December 14, 1964) was an American film actor. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Edna Staebler (January 15, 1906 – September 12, 2006) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of cookbooks, Food That Really Schmecks, based on Mennonite home cooking as practiced in the Waterloo Region. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Igor A. Moiseyev Igor Alexandrovich Moiseyev (Russian: ; born Kiev, January 21 [O.S. January 8] 1906) has been widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of folk dance. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936)[1] was a classic American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. ... Year 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... An image of Clyde Tombaugh Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... Dietrich Bonhoeffer [] (February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, and a founding member of the Confessing Church. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Lon Chaney, Jr. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... Erik Rhodes (1906-1990) Erik Rhodes (February 10, 1906 – February 17, 1990) born Ernest Sharpe at El Reno, in the Indian Territory, in what was to become the state of Oklahoma. ... This article is about the year. ... is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Hans Asperger, who discovered Asperger syndrome, described his patients as little professors. Hans Asperger (b. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Madeleine Carroll (February 26, 1906 - October 2, 1987) was a British actress, who was popular in the 1930s and 1940s. ... This article is about the year 1987. ... is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Benjamin Bugsy Siegel (Bairush HaLevi Bar Mordechai Dov HaLevi) (February 28, 1906 – June 20, 1947) was an American gangster, who was behind large-scale development of Las Vegas. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

March-April

• 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 12 - Yin Shun, Chinese Buddhist master (d. 2005)
• March 16
  • Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (d. 1998)
  • Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer
• March 19 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (d. 1962)
• March 20
  • Abraham Beame, mayor of New York (d. 2001)
  • 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,