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1906 (MCMVI ) was acommon year starting on Monday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Sunday of theJulian calendar , the 1906th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 6th year of the20th century , and the 7th year of the1900s decade. As of the start of 1906, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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January 31 :Ecuador earthquake (8.8).March 4 – Native American tribal governments are terminated inIndian Territory , a prerequisite for creating the US state ofOklahoma in1907 .March 10 –Courrières mine disaster : An explosion in a coal mine in France kills 1,060.March 18 – In France, Romanian inventorTraian Vuia becomes the first person to achieve an unassisted takeoff in a heavier-than-air poweredmonoplane , but it is incapable of sustained flight.April 14 – TheAzusa Street Revival , the primary catalyst for the revival ofPentecostalism this century, opens inLos Angeles .April 18 TheSan Francisco Earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on theSan Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3,000, with 225,000–300,000 left homeless, and $350 million in damages. Xerox , the globaldigital office machine brand, is founded inRochester, New York as the Haloid Photographic Company.[ 2] April 23 – In theRussian Empire , theFundamental Laws are announced at the first stateDuma . The ruins ofSan Francisco following theApril 18 earthquake and later fires July 6 – TheSecond Geneva Convention meets.July 12 –Alfred Dreyfus is exonerated. He is reinstalled in the French Army onJuly 21 , thus ending theDreyfus affair .July 20 – In theGrand Duchy of Finland , a new electoral law is ratified, guaranteeing fullwomen's suffrage , the first in modern Europe.[ 5] August 4 – The firstImperial German Navy submarine ,U-1 August 16 –1906 Valparaíso earthquake : Amagnitude 8.2 earthquake inValparaíso ,Chile leaves approximately 20,000 injured.August 23 – Unable to control a rebellion,Cuban PresidentTomás Estrada Palma requests United States intervention. This leads to theSecond Occupation of Cuba , which lasts until1909 .September 11 –Mahatma Gandhi coins the termSatyagraha nonviolence movement in South Africa.September 18 – Atyphoon andtsunami kill an estimated 10,000 in Hong Kong.[ 6] September 20 – TheRMS Mauretania is launched at theRiver Tyne becoming the world’s largest ship.September 30 – The firstGordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team, piloting the balloonUnited States , lands inFylingdales ,Yorkshire , England.October 1 – TheGrand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to include the right of women to stand as candidates, when it adoptsuniversal suffrage .October 6 – TheMajlis of Iran convenes for the first time.October 11 – A United States diplomatic crisis withJapan arises, when the San Francisco public school board orders Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools (it is resolved by next year ).October 16 – ImposterWilhelm Voigt impersonates aPrussian officer, and takes over the city hall inKöpenick for a short time.October 23 – An aeroplane ofAlberto Santos-Dumont takes off atBagatelle in France, and flies 60 meters (200 feet). This is the first officially recorded powered flight in Europe.October 28 – TheUnion Minière du Haut Katanga , a Belgian mining trust, is created in theCongo .November 1 –International Exhibition opens inChristchurch , New Zealand.November 3 –SOS distress signal (originally for ship-to-shorewireless telegraphy ) on inclusion in the service regulations of the firstInternational Radiotelegraph Convention signed in Berlin and coming into effect on 1 July 1908.[ 7] November 18 – The steamboatDix Seattle toPort Blakely claiming the lives of approximately 50 passengers and crew.November 22 – Russian Prime MinisterPyotr Stolypin introducesagrarian reforms , aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.December 4 –Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity forms at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; it is the first Black Greek-lettered collegiate order of its kind.December 15 – TheLondon Underground 'sGreat Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.December 22 – The Mw 7.91906 Manasi earthquake in Xinjiang, China kills nearly 300 people.[ 8] December 24 –Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, fromBrant Rock, Massachusetts .December 26 – The world's first feature film,The Story of the Kelly Gang Melbourne Athenaeum in Australia.December 30 – TheAll-India Muslim League is founded as a political party inDhaka in theBritish Raj ; it becomes a driving force for the creation of an independentPakistan .John Carradine Clyde Tombaugh Puyi Nazim al-Qudsi Galo Plaza January 6 –Walter Battiss , South African artist (d.1982 )January 11 –Albert Hofmann , Swiss chemist (d.2008 )January 12 –Eric Birley , British historian and archaeologist (d.1995 )January 13 –Zhou Youguang , Chinese linguist (d.2017 )January 14 –William Bendix , American film, radio and television actor (d.1964 )January 15 –Aristotle Onassis , Greek shipping magnate (d.1975 )January 16 –Diana Wynyard , English actress (d.1964 )January 20 –Bretaigne Windust , American stage, film and television director (d.1960 )January 21 –Igor Moiseyev , Russian choreographer (d.2007 )January 22 –Robert E. Howard , American pulp fiction writer (suicide1936 )January 28 –Pat O'Callaghan , Irish athlete (d.1991 )February 4 February 5 –John Carradine , American actor (d.1988 )February 7 February 8 –Chester Carlson , American physicist, inventor (d.1968 )February 10 February 14 –Nazim al-Qudsi , 26thPrime Minister of Syria and 14thPresident of Syria (d.1998 )February 17 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 (k.1947 )Shin'ichirō Tomonaga Bea Benaderet Samuel Beckett Eddie Albert Tony Accardo March 1 March 6 –Lou Costello , American actor (d.1959 )March 7 –Elmar Lipping , Estonian statesman, soldier (d.1994 )March 8 –Victor Hasselblad , Swedish inventor, photographer (d.1978 )March 12 –Yin Shun , Chinese Buddhist master (d.2005 )March 13 –Dave Kaye , British pianist (d.1996 )[ 12] [ 13] March 16 –Francisco Ayala , Spanish novelist (d.2009 )March 17 March 19 March 20 –Ozzie Nelson , American actor, director and producer (d.1975 )March 21 –Jim Thompson , American businessman (disappeared1967 )March 25 –A. J. P. Taylor , English historian (d.1990 )March 26 March 31 –Shin'ichirō Tomonaga , Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1979 )April 1 –Alexander Yakovlev , Russian engineer, airplane designer (d.1989 )April 4 –Bea Benaderet , American actress (d.1968 )April 6 –Luis Alberti , Dominican Republic musician (d.1976 )April 6 –Virginia Hall , American spy with theSpecial Operations Executive during WWII (d.1982 )April 9 –Antal Doráti , Hungarian conductor (d.1988 )April 11 –Julia Clements , English flower arranger and author (d.2010 )April 13 –Samuel Beckett , Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1989 )April 14 –Broda Otto Barnes , American medical researcher (d.1988 )April 22 –Eddie Albert , American actor and activist (d.2005 )April 24 –William Joyce , Irish-American World War II Nazi propaganda broadcaster ("Lord Haw-Haw") (executed1946 )April 25 April 28 April 29 –Pedro Vargas , Mexican singer and actor (d. 1989)[ 15] Mary Astor Roberto Rossellini Josephine Baker SirErnst Chain Maria Goeppert Mayer 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 7 –Jon Lormer , American actor (d.1986 )May 8 –Roberto Rossellini , Italian director (d.1977 )May 10 –António Ferreira Gomes , PortugueseRoman Catholic archbishop (d.1989 )May 11 May 15 –Humberto Delgado , Portuguese general, politician (d.1965 )May 16 –Arturo Uslar Pietri , Venezuelan writer (d.2001 )May 17 –Jack Carr , American actor and animator (d.1967 )May 19 May 20 –Giuseppe Siri , Italian 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 10 –Tekla Juniewicz , Polish supercentenarian, oldest Polish person ever, last surviving person born in 1906 (d.2022 )June 12 –Sandro Penna , Italian poet (d.1977 )June 15 –Léon Degrelle , Belgian fascist (d.1994 )June 17 June 19 – SirErnst Chain , German-born British biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1979 )June 21 –Grete Sultan , German-American pianist (d.2005 )June 22 June 24 June 26 June 27 –Catherine Cookson , English author (d.1998 )June 28 June 29 –Heinz Harmel , German officer (d.2000 )Hans Bethe Alberto Lleras Camargo George Sanders Satchel Paige Vladimir Prelog Marie-José of Belgium SirJohn Betjeman Joaquín Balaguer July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 –Vincent Schaefer , American chemist, meteorologist (d.1993 )July 7 July 8 –Philip Johnson , American architect (d.2005 )July 9 –Roy Leaper , Australian rules footballer (d.2002 )July 10 –Ad Liska , American baseball pitcher (d.1998 )July 11 –Herbert Wehner , German politician (d.1990 )July 12 –Pietro Tordi , Italian actor (d.1990 )July 14 –Stan Devenish Meares , Australian obstetrician, gynaecologist (d.1994 )July 16 July 17 July 18 July 21 –Caroline Smith , American diver (d.1994 )July 23 –Vladimir Prelog , Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1998 )August 5 August 5 –Marie-José of Belgium , last Queen of Italy (d.2001 )[ 17] August 14 –Horst P. Horst , German photographer (d.1999 )August 17 –Marcelo Caetano ,Prime Minister of Portugal (d.1980 )August 19 –Philo Farnsworth , American inventor (d.1971 )August 23 –Zoltan Sarosy , Canadian chess master (d.2017 )August 26 –Albert Sabin , Polish-American medical researcher (d.1993 )August 27 –Ed Gein , American serial killer (d.1984 )August 28 –John Betjeman , English poet (d.1984 )August 30 –Joan Blondell , American actress (d.1979 )Max Delbrück José Figueres Ferrer September 1 September 2 –Barbara Jo Allen , American actress (d.1974 )September 4 –Max Delbrück , German biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1981 )September 5 September 6 –Luis Federico Leloir , French-born Argentine chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1987 )September 8 –Andrei Kirilenko , Soviet politician (d.1990 )September 12 –Lee Erwin , American television writer (d.1972 )September 17 –J. R. Jayewardene , President of Sri Lanka (d.1996 )September 25 September 27 –William Empson , English poet, critic (d.1984 )Janet Gaynor Léopold Sédar Senghor Luchino Visconti Wanrong Leonid Brezhnev November 2 November 4 –Willie Love , AmericanDelta blues pianist (d.1953 )November 5 November 9 –Arthur Rudolph , German rocket engineer (d.1996 )November 10 –Josef Kramer , German Nazi concentration camp commandant (d.1945 )November 13 November 14 November 15 –Curtis LeMay , United States Air Force general, vice-presidential candidate (d.1990 )November 16 –Henri Charrière , French author (d.1973 )November 17 November 18 November 19 – PatriarchPaul II Cheikho (b.1989 )November 22 –Jørgen Juve , Norwegian football player and journalist (d.1983 )November 24 –Don MacLaughlin , American actor (d.1986 )December 2 December 5 –Ahn Eak-tai , Korean composer (d.1965 )December 9 –Grace Hopper , American computer scientist, naval officer (d.1992 )December 13 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 )[ 20] December 26 –Imperio Argentina , Argentinian singer, actress (d.2003 )December 27 –Oscar Levant , American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d.1972 )December 30 Bartolomé Mitre Pierre Curie Christian IX of Denmark Manuel Quintana January 1 –Todor Ivanchov , 11thPrime Minister of Bulgaria (b.1858 )January 13 –Alexander Stepanovich Popov , Russian physicist (b.1859 )[ 21] January 18 – SirWilliam Forbes Gatacre , British general (b.1843 )January 19 –Bartolomé Mitre , Argentine statesman, military figure and author, 6thPresident of Argentina (b.1821 )January 20 –Maria Cristina of the Immaculate Conception Brando , ItalianRoman Catholic nun, saint (b.1856 )January 25 –Joseph Wheeler , American general, politician (b.1836 )January 29 – KingChristian IX of Denmark (b.1818 )February 8 –Giuseppina Gabriella Bonino , ItalianRoman Catholic religious professed (b.1843 )February 9 –Paul Laurence Dunbar , American poet and publisher (b.1872 )[ 22] February 13 –Albert Gottschalk , Danish painter (b.1866 )February 18 –John B. Stetson , American hat maker (b.1830 )February 26 –Jean Lanfray , Swiss convicted murderer (b.1874 )[ 23] February 27 –Samuel Langley , American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (b.1834 )[ 24] March 1 –José María de Pereda , Spanish writer (b.1833 )March 4 –John Schofield , American general (b.1831 )March 8 –Henry Baker Tristram , English clergyman, ornithologist (b.1822 )March 12 –Manuel Quintana , 15thPresident of Argentina (b.1835 )March 13 March 17 –Johann Most , German-American anarchist (b.1846 )[ 25] March 19 –Victor Fatio , Swiss zoologist (b.1838 )March 20 –Adeline Dutton Train Whitney , American author of juvenile literature for girls (b.1824 )March 23 –Thomas Lake Harris , American poet (b.1823 )March 29 April 6 –Alexander Kielland , Norwegian author (b.1849 )April 19 April 25 –John Knowles Paine , American composer (b.1839 )May 10 –Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin ,Sultan of Brunei (b.1825 )May 14 –Carl Schurz , German revolutionary, American statesman (b.1829 )[ 26] May 23 –Henrik Ibsen , Norwegian playwright (b.1828 )June 5 –Eduard von Hartmann , German philosopher (b.1842 )[ 27] June 10 –Richard Seddon , 15thPrime Minister of New Zealand (b.1845 )June 17 –Harry Nelson Pillsbury , American chess champion (b.1872 )June 25 –Stanford White , American architect (b.1853 )Carlos Pellegrini Aniceto Arce SaintEzequiél Moreno y Díaz Paul Cézanne Archduke Otto of Austria Todor Burmov July 1 –Manuel García , Spanish opera singer, music educator and vocal pedagogue (b.1805 )July 11 –Grace Brown , American murder/and or drowning victim (b.1886 )July 17 –Carlos Pellegrini , 11thPresident of Argentina (b.1846 )August 6 –George Waterhouse , 7thPrime Minister of New Zealand (b.1824 )August 14 –Aniceto Arce , 27thPresident of Bolivia (b.1824 )August 19 –Ezequiél Moreno y Díaz , ColombianRoman Catholic priest, saint (b.1848 )September 1 –Giuseppe Giacosa , Italian poet, librettist (b.1847 )September 5 –Ludwig Boltzmann , Austrian physicist (b.1854 )September 13 –Emily Pitts Stevens , American school founder (b.1841 )September 23 –August Bondeson , Swedish author (b.1844 )October 9 –Adelaide Ristori , Italian actress (b.1822 )October 16 –Varina Davis ,First Lady of theConfederate States of America (b.1826 )October 19 October 22 –Paul Cézanne , French painter (b.1839 )[ 28] October 23 –Vladimir Stasov , Russian music critic (b.1824 )October 30 –Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook , British politician (b.1814 )November 1 –Archduke Otto of Austria (b.1865 )November 7 –Todor Burmov , 1stPrime Minister of Bulgaria (b.1834 )November 9 – SaintElizabeth of the Trinity , FrenchDiscalced Carmelite religious professed and saint (b.1880 )November 12 –William Rufus Shafter , American general (b.1835 )November 16 – MotherVeronica of the Passion , Ottoman-born religious leader (b.1823 )November 19 , –Georgia Cayvan , American stage actress (b.1857 )November 28 –Jennie Yeamans , Australian-born American actress (b.1862 )November 30 – SirEdward Reed , British naval architect, author, politician, and railroad magnate (b.1830 )December 7 –Élie Ducommun , Swiss journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.1833 )December 8 –Sylvia Gerrish , American musical theatre star (b.1860 )December 13 –Jan Gerard Palm , Dutch composer (b.1831 )December 21 –Rajendrasuri , Indian religious reformer (b.1827 )December 30 –Josephine Butler , British feminist, social reformer (b.1828 )^ Stuart, J. 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