1906
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 ).
Table of contents
Events of 1906
January - February
March - April
May - June
July - August
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 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 piloted the balloon "United States" landed in Fylingdales, Yorkshire .
October 1
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.
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 8 - Petrified Forest , Arizona designated a National Monument.
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.
Undated
Births
January-February
March-April
March 1 - Pham Van Dong , Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000 )
March 4
March 6 - Victor Hasselblad , Swedish inventor and photographer (d. 1978 )
March 7
March 12 - Yin Shun , Chinese Buddhist master (d. 2005 )
March 16
March 19 - Adolf Eichmann , Nazi official (d. 1962 )
March 20
March 26 - Rafael Méndez , Mexican-born trumpet virtuoso (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, gardener and humanitarian activist (d. 2005 )
April 25 - William J. Brennan , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997 )
April 28
May-June
May 2 - Philippe Halsman , Latvian -born American photographer (d. 1979 )
May 3 - Mary Astor , Academy Award winning 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
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
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
June 20
June 22
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-August
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 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-October
September 1
September 4 - Max Delbrück , German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (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 , first president of Senegal (d. 2001 )
October 10 - Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan , Indian novelist (d. 2001 )
October 14
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
November-December
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. 1973 )
November 17 - Rollie Stiles , baseball player (d. 2007 )
November 18
December 5 - Otto Preminger , Austrian-born film director (d. 1986 )
December 6 - Ahn Eak-tae , Korean composer of classical music (d. 1965 )
December 9 - Grace Hopper , American computer scientist and naval officer (d. 1992 )
December 16 - Barbara Kent , Canadian actress
December 17 - William McChesney Martin, Jr. , Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve (d. 1986 )
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
Deaths
January - June
January 29 - King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818 )
February 8 - Johanna Hiedler , grandmother of Adolf Hitler (b. 1830 )
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 19 - Victor Fatio , zoologist (b. 1838 )
March 29 - Slava Raskaj , Croatian painter (b. 1877 )
April 6 - Alexander Kielland , Norwegian author (b. 1849 )
April 8 - Auguste D , first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease (b. 1850 )
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 )
July - December
Nobel prizes
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