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.
- February 10, 1906 – HMS Dreadnought is launched.
- February 11, 1906 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.
- 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.
- March 18, 1906 – Traian Vuia flies a heavier-than-air aircraft for 20 meters at 1 meter altitude.
- 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.
- July 11, 1906 – The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.
- August 4, 1906 – Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.
- September 18, 1906 – A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
- 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.
- September 30, 1906 – The Real Academia Galega, Galician language’s biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
- October 16, 1906 – The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
- October 23, 1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France.
- 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 31, 1906 – Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.
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