1906 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1906?
- January 8, 1906 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
- January 25, 1906 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
- February 10, 1906 – HMS Dreadnought is launched.
- February 15, 1906 – The British Labour Party is organised.
- March 5, 1906 – Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
- March 10, 1906 – The Courrières mine disaster, Europe’s worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France.
- March 15, 1906 – Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
- April 14, 1906 – The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
- April 18, 1906 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
- 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 25, 1906 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
- July 11, 1906 – The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.
- August 4, 1906 – Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.
- August 5, 1906 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
- August 13, 1906 – The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged.
- August 16, 1906 – An estimated 8.2 MW earthquake hits Valparaíso, Chile, killing 3,886 people.
- September 5, 1906 – The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
- September 25, 1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.
- November 24, 1906 – The Canton Bulldogs-Massillon Tigers Betting Scandal, the first major scandal in professional American football.
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