1906 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1906?
- January 1, 1906 – British India officially adopts the Indian Standard Time.
- 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 11, 1906 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.
- February 15, 1906 – The British Labour Party is organised.
- February 18, 1906 – Edouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
- March 22, 1906 – First Anglo-French rugby union match at Parc des Princes in Paris
- 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.
- May 2, 1906 – Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
- 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 22, 1906 – The flag of Sweden is adopted.
- 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 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 24, 1906 – Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
- December 30, 1906 – The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan.
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