1906 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1906?
- January 1, 1906 – British India officially adopts the Indian Standard Time.
- 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 11, 1906 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.
- 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 18, 1906 – Traian Vuia flies a heavier-than-air aircraft for 20 meters at 1 meter altitude.
- 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.
- May 22, 1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine”.
- June 22, 1906 – The flag of Sweden is adopted.
- 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 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.
- September 1, 1906 – The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
- September 7, 1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
- September 12, 1906 – The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
- 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.
- 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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