1906 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1906?
- January 22, 1906 – SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
- January 25, 1906 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
- March 22, 1906 – First Anglo-French rugby union match at Parc des Princes in Paris
- March 31, 1906 – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
- April 7, 1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
- April 8, 1906 – Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, dies.
- April 18, 1906 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
- April 22, 1906 – The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
- May 22, 1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine”.
- June 7, 1906 – Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
- June 8, 1906 – 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 25, 1906 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
- August 16, 1906 – An estimated 8.2 MW earthquake hits Valparaíso, Chile, killing 3,886 people.
- September 13, 1906 – First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
- September 18, 1906 – A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
- September 30, 1906 – The Real Academia Galega, Galician language’s biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
- October 11, 1906 – San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
- November 9, 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
- November 24, 1906 – The Canton Bulldogs-Massillon Tigers Betting Scandal, the first major scandal in professional American football.
- December 10, 1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
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