1906

Years: 1903 1904 1905 - 1906 - 1907 1908 1909
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1906 in art 1906 in aviation 1906 in film 1906 in literature 1906 in music 1906 in science 1906 in sports 1906 in Canada List of state leaders in 1906 List of religious leaders in 1906 List of international organization leaders in 1906

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel Prizes

Events

January 31 – Earthquake in Ecuador (8.6 in Richter scale)
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 period
September 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 – Captain of the Köpenick fools a city hall of Köpenick by impersonating a Prussian officer
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 24 - Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

BCG (Bacilli-Calmette-Guerin) immunization for Tuberculosis first developed
Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior
Second Geneva Convention

Births

January 11 - Albert Hofmann, chemist, discoverer of LSD
January 14 - William Bendix, actor (d. 1964)
January 15 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipowner (d. 1975)
January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author (d. 1936)
January 23- Her Serene Highness Princess May of Teck (later styled Lady May Cambridge
February 1 - Hildegarde, actress, singer
February 2 - Gale Gordon, actor (d. 1995)
February 4 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian (d. 1945)
February 4 - Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer (d. 1997)
February 5 - John Carradine, actor (d. 1988)
February 10 - Lon Chaney Jr, actor (d. 1973)
February 11 - Denis Barnett, British air chief marshal.
February 28 - Bugsy Siegel, gangster (d. 1947)
March 1 - Phạm Văn Ðồng;, Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1954 through 1976, and was Prime Minister of reunified Vietnam from 1976 until he retired in 1986 (d. 2000)
March 6 - Lou Costello, actor, comedian (d. 1959)
March 16 - Henny Youngman, comedian (d. 1998)
March 19 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official responsible for the execution of the holocaust
March 20 - Ozzie Nelson, actor, band leader (d. 1975)
March 25 - Jean Sablon, French singer (d. 1994)
April 4 - John Cameron Swayze, journalist, television host (d. 1995)
April 4 - Bea Benaderet, actress (d. 1968)
April 6 - Virginia Hall, American SOE agent, WW II heroine (d. 1982)
April 13 - Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1969
April 28 - Gödel, Austrian/US mathematician
May 3 - Anna E. Roosevelt, radio personality (d. 1975)
May 8 - Roberto Rossellini, director (d. 1977)
May 11 - Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (d. 1980)
May 19 - Gerd Bucerius, publisher and publicist (d. 1995)
May 20 - Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, senior cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1989)
June 27 - Catherine Cookson, author (d. 1998)
July 1 - Estée Lauder;, cosmetics pioneer (d. 2004)
July 29 - Diana Vreeland, fashion editor (d. 1989)
August 5 - Wassily Leontief, economist (d. 1999)
August 7 - Nelson Goodman, philosopher and coiner of the term "irrealism"
August 27 - Ed Gein, serial killer
August 31 - Raymond Sommer, Grand Prix motor racing driver
September 4 - Max Delbrück, German biologist
September 22 - Ilse Koch, wife of Karl Koch, commandant of the concentration camp Buchenwald (d. 1967)
September 25 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer
September 30 - Mireille, French singer (d. 1996)
October 10 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
October 14 - Hannah Arendt, German/US intellectual
October 23 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer
October 30 - Giuseppe Farina, Italian F1 driver
November 3 - Carl Benjamin Boyer, US historian of mathematics
November 14 - Louise Brooks, American dancer, actor and writer. (d. 1985)
December 17 - Simo Häyhä, most successful sniper in history
December 27 - Oscar Levant, pianist and actor (d. 1972)
Xuantong, Emperor of the Qing dynasty in China

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 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher
May 14 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionist and American statesman, (* 1929)
May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright
September 5 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist

Nobel Prizes

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