1906

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Modèle:Year nav Modèle:C20YearInTopicX Year 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1906

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January 31: Ecuador earthquake (8.6).

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January - February

January 1 - British India officially adopts Indian Standard Time.
January 8 - Landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20.
January 31 - Massive earthquake in Ecuador (8.6 on the Richter scale).

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February 28: The Jungle.

8 February - The Liberal Party led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman win the United Kingdom general election with a large majority.
February 11 - Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.
February 15 - Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in the UK parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party.
February 28 - Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a novel depicting the life of an immigrant family in Chicago during the early 1900s.

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March - April

March 10 - Explosion in coal mine in Courrières, France kills 1060.
March 15 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.
March 17 - Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
March 18 - Traian Vuia flies a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft.

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March 15: Rolls-Royce

March 27 - The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg by Elizabeth Parker and Arthur Oliver Wheeler.
April 7 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
April 14 - First service held at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles, CA by W.J. Seymour in a series later known as the Azusa Street Revival.
April 18 - The 1906 San Francisco earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.Image:Cool.gif on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3000, with 225,000-300,000 left homeless, $350 million in damages.
April 23 - In Tsarist Russia, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.

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The ruins of San Francisco following the April 18 earthquake and later fires

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May - June

May
- Jack London's novel White Fang is serialized in The Outing Magazine.
- Club Deportivo Guadalajara is founded.
- Sporting Clube de Portugal is founded.
June 6 - Durham & South Carolina Railroad operates its first revenue train, Bonsal to Durham, North Carolina.
June 7 - The RMS Lusitania is launched in Glasgow. It is the world's largest ship.
June 8 - 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 9-June 10 - Riots in Stockholm, Ladugårsdgärden - 50 policemen injured.
June 22 - Haakon VII and Maud of Wales are crowned rulers of Norway.
June 25 - Harry K. Thaw shoots architect Stanford White.
June 29 - Mesa Verde declared a National Park.
June 30 - United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.

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July - August

July 6 - Second Geneva Convention.
July 12 - Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer hastily and wrongly convicted of treason in 1899, is exonerated. He is reinstalled in the French Army July 21, ending the "Dreyfus Affair" that exposed anti-Semitism in French society.
August 22 - The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, is manufactured.
August 23 - Unable to control a rebellion in the newly-formed Cuban republic, Pres. Tomás Estrada Palma requests U.S. intervention.

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September - October

September 5 - Brandbury Robinson throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
September 18 - Typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 persons in Hong Kong.
September 22 - Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia. At least 27 people are killed and the black-owned business district is severely damaged.
September 24 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument.
September 30 - The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team piloted the balloon "United States" landed in Fylingdales, Yorkshire.
October 1
- Grand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to adopt universal suffrage, giving women the right to vote.
- The Madeira School, a private boarding school for girls, opens with twenty-eight students attending classes in two buildings on 19th Street just off Dupont Circle in downtown Washington, DC.
October 6 - The Majlis of Iran convenes for the first time.
October 11 - San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
October 16 - Imposter Wilhelm Voigt impersonates a Prussian officer and takes over city hall in Köpenick for a short time, amusing all of Germany and other countries.
October 23 - Aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off on Bagatelle in France and flies 60 meters (200 feet).
October 28 - Creation of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust in Congo.

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November - December

November 3 - SOS becomes an international distress signal.
November 9 - US President Theodore Roosevelt leaves for a trip to Panama to inspect the construction progress of the Panama Canal (the first time a sitting President of the United States makes an official trip outside of the United States).
November 22 - Russian Prime Min. Peter Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.
December 2 - HMS Dreadnought commissioned. First all-big-gun warship.
December 4 - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter organization established for African Americans, is founded at Cornell University.
December 6 - Creation of district of Chimbote.
December 9 - Grace Murray Hopper, pioneer computer scientist, is born in New York City, New York.
December 10 - Pres. Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating peace in the Russo-Japanese War (1905).
December 14 - The world's first submarine, the Unterseeboot 1, enters the German navy.
December 24 - Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
December 26 - The world's first feature film, "The Story of the Kelly Gang", is released.
December 30 - The All-India Muslim League, a political organization that represented the interests of Indian Muslims, is formed.