1906

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1903 1904 1905 - 1906 - 1907 1908 1909 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Nobel Prizes

Events

\n* January 31 – Earthquake in Ecuador (8.6 in Richter scale)\n* February 15 - Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in the UK parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party\n* March 10 - Explosion in coalmine in Courriese, France kills 1060\n* March 15 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered\n* March 18 - Traian Vuia flies first self-propelled heavier than air aircraft\n* April 7 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.\n* April 18 - 1906 San Francisco earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California. The estimated magnitude of the earthquake is 7.8.\n* June 9 -10 - Riots in Stockholm, Ladugårsdgärden - 50 policemen injured\n* June 25 - New York playboy Harry K. Thaw shoots architect Stanford White\n* June 28 – July 6 – Crown Jewels of Ireland stolen during this period\n*September 18 - Typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10.000 persons in Hong Kong\n* October 3 – SOS becomes an international distress signal\n* 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.\n* October 16 – Captain of the Köpenick fools a city hall of Köpenick by impersonating a Prussian officer\n* November 9 - US President Theodore Roosevelt leaves for a trip to Panama to inspect the construction progress of the Panama Canal (this was the first time a sitting President of the United States made an official trip outside of the United States).\n* December 24 - Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech. \n* BCG (Bacilli-Calmette-Guerin) immunization for Tuberculosis first developed\n* Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior\n* Second Geneva Convention

Births

\n* January 11 - Albert Hofmann, chemist, discoverer of LSD\n* January 14 - William Bendix, actor (d. 1964)\n* January 15 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipowner (d. 1975)\n* January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author (d. 1936)\n* January 23- Her Serene Highness Princess May of Teck (later styled Lady May Cambridge\n* February 1 - Hildegarde, actress, singer\n* February 2 - Gale Gordon, actor (d. 1995)\n* February 4 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian (d. 1945)\n* February 4 - Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer (d. 1997)\n* February 5 - John Carradine, actor (d. 1988)\n* February 10 - Lon Chaney Jr, actor (d. 1973)\n* February 11 - Denis Barnett, British air chief marshal.\n* February 28 - Bugsy Siegel, gangster (d. 1947)\n* March 1 - Phạm Văn Ðồng, Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1954 through 1976, and was Prime Minister of reunified Vietnam from 1976 until he retired in 1986 (d. 2000)\n* March 6 - Lou Costello, actor, comedian (d. 1959)\n* March 16 - Henny Youngman, comedian (d. 1998)\n* March 19 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official responsible for the execution of the holocaust\n* March 20 - Ozzie Nelson, actor, band leader (d. 1975)\n* March 25 - Jean Sablon, French singer (d. 1994)\n* April 4 - John Cameron Swayze, journalist, television host (d. 1995)\n* April 4 - Bea Benaderet, actress (d. 1968)\n* April 6 - Virginia Hall, American SOE agent, WW II heroine (d. 1982)\n* April 13 - Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1969\n* April 28 - Gödel, Austrian/US mathematician\n* May 3 - Anna E. Roosevelt, radio personality (d. 1975)\n* May 8 - Roberto Rossellini, director (d. 1977)\n* May 11 - Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (d. 1980)\n* May 19 - Gerd Bucerius, publisher and publicist (d. 1995)\n* May 20 - Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, senior cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1989)\n* June 27 - Catherine Cookson, author (d. 1998)\n* July 1 - Estée Lauder, cosmetics pioneer (d. 2004)\n* July 29 - Diana Vreeland, fashion editor (d. 1989)\n* August 5 - Wassily Leontief, economist (d. 1999)\n* August 7 - Nelson Goodman, philosopher and coiner of the term "irrealism"\n* August 27 - Ed Gein, serial killer\n* August 31 - Raymond Sommer, Grand Prix motor racing driver\n* September 4 - Max Delbrück, German biologist\n* September 22 - Ilse Koch, wife of Karl Koch, commandant of the concentration camp Buchenwald (d. 1967)\n* September 25 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer\n* September 30 - Mireille, French singer (d. 1996)\n* October 14 - Hannah Arendt, German/US intellectual\n* October 23 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer\n* October 30 - Giuseppe Farina, Italian F1 driver \n* November 3 - Carl Benjamin Boyer, US historian of mathematics\n* November 14 - Louise Brooks, American dancer, actor and writer. (d. 1985)\n* December 17 - Simo Häyhä, most successful sniper in history\n* December 27 - Oscar Levant, pianist and actor (d. 1972)\n*Xuantong, Emperor of the Qing dynasty in China

Deaths

\n* January 29 - King Christian IX of Denmark\n* February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet.\n* February 27 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer.\n* March 13 - Susan Brownell Anthony , civil rights and women's suffrage activist\n* April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher\n*May 14 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionist and American statesman, (* 1929)\n* May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright\n* September 5 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist

Nobel Prizes

\n* Physics - Sir Joseph John Thomson\n* Chemistry - Henri Moissan\n* Medicine - Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal\n* Literature - Giosuè Carducci\n* Peace - Theodore Roosevelt \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n