1906

1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1906th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 906th year of the 2nd millennium, the 6th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1906, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1906 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1906
MCMVI
Ab urbe condita2659
Armenian calendar1355
ԹՎ ՌՅԾԵ
Assyrian calendar6656
Baháʼí calendar62–63
Balinese saka calendar1827–1828
Bengali calendar1313
Berber calendar2856
British Regnal year5 Edw. 7  6 Edw. 7
Buddhist calendar2450
Burmese calendar1268
Byzantine calendar7414–7415
Chinese calendar乙巳年 (Wood Snake)
4602 or 4542
     to 
丙午年 (Fire Horse)
4603 or 4543
Coptic calendar1622–1623
Discordian calendar3072
Ethiopian calendar1898–1899
Hebrew calendar5666–5667
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1962–1963
 - Shaka Samvat1827–1828
 - Kali Yuga5006–5007
Holocene calendar11906
Igbo calendar906–907
Iranian calendar1284–1285
Islamic calendar1323–1324
Japanese calendarMeiji 39
(明治39年)
Javanese calendar1835–1836
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4239
Minguo calendar6 before ROC
民前6年
Nanakshahi calendar438
Thai solar calendar2448–2449
Tibetan calendar阴木蛇年
(female Wood-Snake)
2032 or 1651 or 879
     to 
阳火马年
(male Fire-Horse)
2033 or 1652 or 880

Events

January–February

  • January 12 Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, and establish a national assembly, the Majlis.
  • January 16April 7 The Algeciras Conference convenes, to resolve the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany.
  • January 22 The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, Canada, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster.
  • January 31 The Ecuador–Colombia earthquake (8.8 on the Moment magnitude scale), and associated tsunami, cause at least 500 deaths.
  • February 7 HMS Dreadnought is launched, sparking a naval race between Britain and Germany.
  • February 11
    • Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos, denouncing the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State.
    • Two British members of a poll tax collecting expedition are killed near Richmond, Natal, sparking the Bambatha Rebellion.[1]
January 31: Ecuador earthquake (8.8).

March–April

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

May–June

July–August

September–October

  • September 11 Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha, to characterize the nonviolence movement in South Africa.
  • September 18 A typhoon and tsunami kill an estimated 10,000 in Hong Kong.[4]
  • September 30 The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team, piloting the balloon United States, lands in Fylingdales, Yorkshire, England.
  • October 1 The Grand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to include the right of women to stand as candidates, when it adopts universal suffrage.
  • October 6 The Majlis of Iran convenes for the first time.
  • October 11 A United States diplomatic crisis with Japan arises, when the San Francisco public school board orders Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools (it is resolved by next year).
  • October 16 Imposter Wilhelm Voigt impersonates a Prussian officer, and takes over the city hall in Köpenick for a short time.
  • October 23 An aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off at Bagatelle in France, and flies 60 meters (200 feet). This is the first officially recorded powered flight in Europe.
  • October 28 The Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust, is created in the Congo.

November–December

  • November 1 International Exhibition opens in Christchurch, New Zealand.
  • November 3 SOS becomes an international distress signal.
  • November 22 Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms, aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.
  • December 4 Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity forms at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; it is the first Black Greek-lettered collegiate order of its kind.
  • December 15 The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
  • December 22 The Mw 7.9 1906 Manasi earthquake in Xinjiang, China kills nearly 300 people.[5]
  • December 24 Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts.
  • December 26 The world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, is first shown, at the Melbourne Athenaeum in Australia.
  • December 30 The All-India Muslim League is founded as a political party in Dhaka in the British Raj; it becomes a driving force for the creation of an independent Pakistan.

Date unknown

  • The BCG vaccine for tuberculosis is first developed.
  • Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior.
  • Construction begins on the modern-day Great Mosque of Djenné.
  • The Simplo Filler Pen Company is founded, later to become the Montblanc Company in Germany.
  • HaRishon Le Zion-Yafo Association is officially founded as a sports club in Palestine, predecessor of Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel).[6]

Births

January–February

John Carradine
Puyi, Last Emperor of China
Nazim al-Kudsi

March–April

Bea Benaderet
Tony Accardo

May–June

Ernst Boris Chain
  • May 2 Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American photographer (d. 1979)
  • May 3 Mary Astor, American actress and writer (d. 1987)
  • May 6 André Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998)
  • May 7 Jon Lormer, American actor (d. 1986)
  • May 8 Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d. 1977)
  • May 10 António Ferreira Gomes, Portuguese Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1989)
  • May 11
    • Jacqueline Cochran, American aviator (d. 1980)
    • Richard Arvin Overton, oldest living man in the United States and oldest surviving American veteran (World War II) (d. 2018)
    • Ethel Weed, American promoter of Japanese women's rights (d. 1975)
  • May 15 Humberto Delgado, Portuguese general, politician (d. 1965)
  • May 16 Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer (d. 2001)
  • May 17 Jack Carr, American actor and animator (d. 1967)
  • May 19
    • Bruce Bennett, American athlete, actor (d. 2007)
    • Jimmy MacDonald, Scottish-American sound effects artist, voice actor (d. 1991)
  • May 20 Giuseppe Siri, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1989)
  • May 23 Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (d. 1944)
  • May 27 Buddhadasa, Buddhist monk (d. 1993)
  • May 29 T. H. White, British writer (d. 1964)
  • May 30 Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d. 1959)
  • June 3 Josephine Baker, American-born French entertainer (d. 1975)
  • June 4 Ivan Knunyants, Soviet chemist (d. 1990)
  • June 6 Max August Zorn, German-born American mathematician (d. 1993)
  • June 10 Tekla Juniewicz, oldest Polish person ever, last surviving person born in 1906 (d. 2022)
  • June 12 Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
  • June 15 Léon Degrelle, Belgian fascist (d. 1994)
  • June 17
    • James H. Flatley, American admiral, aviator (d. 1958)
    • Olli Ungvere, Estonian actress (d. 1991)
  • June 19 Ernst Boris Chain, German-born British biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
  • June 21 Grete Sultan, German-American pianist (d. 2005)
  • June 22
    • George W. Clarke, American politician (d. 2006)
    • Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author, aviator (d. 2001)
    • Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American screenwriter, film director and producer (d. 2002)
  • June 24
    • Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)
    • George Alexander Gale, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
  • June 26
    • Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer, teacher, sculptor and artist (d. 2008)
    • M. P. Sivagnanam, Indian politician (d. 1995)
  • June 27 Catherine Cookson, English author (d. 1998)
  • June 28
  • June 29 Heinz Harmel, German officer (d. 2000)

July–August

Alberto Lleras Camargo
Vladimir Prelog
Marie-José of Belgium

September

Max Delbrück

October

Janet Gaynor

November–December

Deaths

January–June

Bartolome Mitre
Manuel Quintana

July–December

Carlos Pellegrini
Aniceto Arce
Otto Franz of Austria
Todor Burmov

Nobel Prizes

References

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Sources

Further reading

  • Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 123 – 42.
  • Hazell's Annual for 1907 (1907), worldwide events of 1906; 734pp online
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