1906
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 Courriese, 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 periodSeptember 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.
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.
BirthsMarch 19 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (d. 1962)April 9 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)April 13 - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer (d. 1989)May 29 - T. H. White,June 7 - Glen Gray, a saxophonistJune 15 - Léon Degrelle, Belgian Rexist who joined the Waffen SS (d. 1994)June 20 - Robert Trent Jones, British-American golf course designer (d. 2000)June 24 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)August 12 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (d. 1972)August 28 - John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)October 14 - Hassan al Banna, Egyptian Islamist and founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)November 18 - Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949)December 5 - Otto Preminger, film director (d. 1986)
Deaths January 29 - King Christian IX of Denmark February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet. February 27 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer. March 13 - Susan Brownell Anthony , civil rights and women's suffrage activist April 6 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisherMay 14 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionist and American statesman, (* 1929) May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright September 5 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist October 22 - Paul Cézanne, French painter
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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