1906 - Definition and Overview

Events

• January 8 - Landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20
• January 31 - Earthquake in Ecuador (8.6 in Richter scale)
• 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
• March 10 - Explosion in coalmine in Courriese, France kills 1060
• March 15 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered
• March 18 - Traian Vuia flies first self-propelled heavier than air aircraft
• April 7 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
• 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.
• June 9 -10 - Riots in Stockholm, Ladugårsdgärden - 50 policemen injured
• June 25 - New York playboy Harry K. Thaw shoots architect Stanford White
• June 28 - July 6 - Crown Jewels of Ireland stolen during this period
• September 18 - Typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10.000 persons in Hong Kong
• October 3 - SOS becomes an international distress signal
• 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 - Captain of the Köpenick fools a city hall of Köpenick by impersonating a Prussian officer
• 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).
• December 6 - Politic creation of district of Chimbote.
• December 24 - Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

• Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunization for tuberculosis first developed
• Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior
• Second Geneva Convention
• Construction begins on the current Great Mosque of Djenné.

Births

• April 9 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)
• June 24 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)

Deaths

• January 29 - King Christian IX of Denmark
• February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet.
• February 27 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer.
• March 13 - Susan Brownell Anthony , civil rights and women's suffrage activist
• April 6 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author
• April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher
• May 14 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionist and American statesman, (* 1929)
• May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright
• September 5 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist

Nobel Prizes

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