Notable Historical Events - 1906
1906 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Dutch law makes driver's license mandatory |
Jan 1 |
The poll tax of £1 per head on all adult male inhabitants of Natal, South Africa, except indentured Indians and married Blacks, imposed by the Natal parliament in 1905, becomes payable. |
Jan 2 |
W H Carrier recieves a US patent for the world's first air conditioner |
Jan 4 |
South Africa beat England by one wicket, their 1st Test win |
Jan 6 |
Maurice Ravel's "Miroirs," premieres in Paris |
Jan 8 |
A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people. |
Jan 10 |
The British and French begin consultations on military and naval issues |
Jan 12 |
1st time Dow Jones closes above 100 (100.26) |
Jan 12 |
Football rules committee legalizes forward pass |
Jan 12 |
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H.H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election. |
Jan 13 |
1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile |
Jan 16 |
-Apr 13] Conference of Algeciras (about Morocco) |
Jan 19 |
Gerhart Hauptmann's "Und Pippa Tanzt!," premieres in Berlin |
Jan 22 |
SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130. |
Jan 25 |
Del Valle Inclans "El Marqués de Bradomin," premieres in Madrid |
Jan 27 |
Rudolf Gundersen skates world record 500m at 44.8 sec |
Jan 29 |
Coen de King skates world record time: 32,370 km |
Jan 31 |
Strongest instrumentally recorded earthquake, Colombia, 8.6 Richter |
Feb 1 |
1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas |
Feb 1 |
Dorothy Grey, wife of British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey fatally injured |
Feb 2 |
Pope encyclical against separation of church & state |
Feb 8 |
Without warning, Japanese torpedo boats make a night attack on Russian ships near the naval base at Port Arthur, Manchuria; there is confusion because no deceleration of war was given |
Feb 9 |
Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising |
Feb 10 |
British battleship HMS Dreadnought launched after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with revolutionary design |
Feb 10 |
State of siege proclaimed in Zululand |
Feb 12 |
George Cohans musical "George Washington," premieres in NYC |
Feb 15 |
British Labour Party founded |
Feb 18 |
Vincent d'Indy's "Jour D'été à La Montagne," premieres in Paris |
Feb 19 |
WK Kellogg & Ch Bolin found Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co (later Kelloggs) |
Feb 22 |
Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in LA Calif |
Feb 23 |
Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart in 20 for heavyweight boxing title |
Feb 24 |
Tomas Estrada Palma defeats Jose Gomez in the election for president of Cuba, but Gomez and his followers refuse to accept results and sponsor an uprising |
Feb 27 |
France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides |
Feb 28 |
Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Queen's U (Kingston Ont) in 2 games |
Mar 3 |
Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France |
Mar 6 |
Cubs sign 3rd baseman Harry Steinfeldt to complete Tinker-Evers-Chance |
Mar 6 |
Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands |
Mar 6 |
Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Society of Civil Engineers |
Mar 7 |
Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor |
Mar 8 |
Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Smiths Falls (Ont) in 2 games |
Mar 10 |
1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Sonatine" |
Mar 10 |
Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France |
Mar 10 |
Baker Street & Waterloo Railway opens, constructed by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London. The contraction Bakerloo became the official name in July 1906. |
Mar 12 |
Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast |
Mar 14 |
Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club forms |
Mar 15 |
Britons Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd |
Mar 17 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Silver 7, although both winning a game, Montreal outscores Ottawa 12-10 |
Mar 17 |
The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. |
Mar 19 |
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's "Quattro Rusteghi" premieres in Munich |
Mar 20 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" premieres in London |
Mar 24 |
"Census of the British Empire" shows Britain rules 1/5 of the world |
Mar 27 |
Founding of the Alpine Club of Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba |
Mar 29 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Kenora Thisles in 2 games |
Mar 31 |
GB Shaw's German version of "Caesar & Cleopatra" premieres in Berlin |
Apr 2 |
South Africa complete a 4-1 series drubbing of England |
Apr 5 |
St Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland" |
Apr 6 |
1st animated cartoon copyrighted |
Apr 7 |
Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business |
Apr 7 |
Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples. |
Apr 9 |
3½th modern Olympic games opens in Athens (4/22 NS) |
Apr 13 |
Mutiny on Portuguese battleships Dom Carlos & Vasco da Gama |
Apr 14 |
US President Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in US press, taken from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress |
Apr 15 |
The Armenian organization AGBU is established. |
Apr 18 |
8.25 earthquake shakes SF Calif |
Apr 18 |
Calvinist Reformed Union in Neth Church forms in Utrecht |
Apr 18 |
San Francisco earthquake & fire kills nearly 4,000 & destroy 75% of city |
Apr 18 |
The Los Angeles Times story on the Azusa Street Revival launches Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement. |
Apr 19 |
10th Boston Marathon won by Tim Ford of Mass in 2:45:45 |
Apr 19 |
Belgian naval education ship Comte The Stain de Naeyer sets sail |
Apr 19 |
SF Earthquake ends killing 452 |
Apr 22 |
10th anniversary Olympic games open at Athens, Greece |
Apr 22 |
New rule puts umpire in sole charge of all game balls |
Apr 26 |
1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii |
May 1 |
Phillies' John Lush no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 6-0 |
May 2 |
32nd Kentucky Derby: Roscoe Troxler aboard Sir Huon wins in 2:08.8 |
May 2 |
Tsar Nicolas II of Russia dismisses his moderate Prime Minister Witte and appoints Ivan Goremykin, a conservative bureaucrat |
May 3 |
British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey |
May 6 |
"Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street, San Francisco |
May 6 |
Tsar Nicolas II of Russia claims right to legislate by decree and restricts the power of the Duma (Russian Parliament) |
May 8 |
Phila A's pitcher Chief Benders plays outfield & hits 2 HRs |
May 10 |
Russian Duma (Parliament) meets for 1st time |
May 10 |
Italian King Victor Emmanuel & Swiss president Ludwig Forrer open Simplon tunnel |
May 13 |
Bezalel Art School opens in Jerusalem |
May 14 |
Flagpole at the White Sox ballpark breaks during pennant-raising |
May 15 |
NY Giants' Hooks Wiltse strikes out 4 batters in 1 inning |
May 17 |
Switzerland's Simplon Tunnel open to rail traffic |
May 19 |
Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes |
May 19 |
Portugal's King Carlos I names Joao Franco premier |
May 21 |
Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars |
May 21 |
The US and Mexico sign an agreement over distribution of the waters of the Rio Grande, increasingly diverted to the US for irrigation |
May 22 |
10th anniversary Olympic games close at Athens, Greece |
May 22 |
31st Preakness: Walter Miller aboard Whimsical wins in 1:45 |
May 22 |
Wright Brothers patent an aeroplane |
May 22 |
A British garrison leaves Esquimalt, on the Pacific coast, after a military occupation that began in 1858: these were the last British soldiers stationed in Canada |
May 25 |
After 20 straight wins, Boston Pilgrims lose to Chicago White Sox 3-0 |
May 26 |
Archaeological Institute of America forms |
May 26 |
Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London. |
May 27 |
1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen |
May 28 |
Shields/Cobbs musical "His honor, the Mayor" premieres in NYC |
May 30 |
40th Belmont: Lucien Lyne aboard Burgomaster wins in 2:20 |
May 31 |
Attack on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria of Battenberg in Madrid |
Jun 3 |
Belgian King Leopold II claims Congo as his private possession |
Jun 5 |
Determined to keep pace with Britain as a major naval power, the German Reichstag passes new navy legislation, increasing the total tonnage in Germany's fleet |
Jun 6 |
Paris Métro Line 5 is inaugurated with a first section from Place d'Italie to the Gare d'Orléans (today known as Gare d'Austerlitz). |
Jun 7 |
Chicago Cubs score 11 in 1st inning, beating NY Giants 19-0 |
Jun 7 |
Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches |
Jun 9 |
Boston Beaneaters (NL) end 19-game losing streak beat Cards 6-3 |
Jun 14 |
Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia |
Jun 18 |
6th Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Wimbledon (5-0) |
Jun 22 |
Haakon VII crowned king of Norway |
Jun 26 |
Hongar Szisz wins 1st Grand-Prix (Le Mans, France) |
Jun 29 |
12th US Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 295 at Onwentsia Club Ill |
Jun 29 |
US Congress pass the Hepburn Act, permitting the regulation of rates charged by railroads, pipelines, and terminals engaged in interstate commerce |
Jun 30 |
John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College |
Jun 30 |
US Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; these laws owe much to the expose journalism of the period (Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' in particular) |
Jul 2 |
Yanks win by forfeit for the 1st time |
Jul 4 |
Great Britain, France, and Italy declare independence of Ethiopia (Abyssinia), but all lay claim to their own 'spheres of influence' in that land |
Jul 5 |
23rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Dorothea Chambers beats M Bundy (6-3 9-7) |
Jul 5 |
30th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Laurence Doherty beats F Riseley (6-4 4-6 6-2 6-3) |
Jul 11 |
The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. |
Jul 12 |
Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France |
Jul 15 |
Republic museum opens Rembrandt hall in Amsterdam |
Jul 17 |
Clement Armand Fallieres is elected President of France, but power lies with George Clemenceau |
Jul 20 |
Bkln Dodger Mal Eason no-hits St Louis Cards, 2-0 |
Jul 23 |
Pogroms against Jews in Oddessa |
Jul 28 |
Yankees turn triple-play, beat Cleveland 6-4 |
Aug 1 |
Brooklyn Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pitts for 10 2/3 loses in 13th |
Aug 2 |
Chicago White Sox begin AL record 19 game win streak |
Aug 3 |
Wash Natl's pitcher Tom Hughes hits HR to win his own game 1-0 in 10th |
Aug 10 |
Pope Pius X bans Associations cults |
Aug 13 |
Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas |
Aug 13 |
Cub's Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games (187 complete, 15 relief) by Dodgers in 3rd inning |
Aug 15 |
1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago |
Aug 15 |
Kind Edward VII of Britain visits Kaiser Wilhelm in Germany to discuss the escalating rivalry between their nations' naval forces |
Aug 16 |
-17] 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000 |
Aug 22 |
1st Victor Victrola manufactured |
Aug 23 |
Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Wash Senators |
Aug 23 |
Cuba's 1st president Tomés Estrada Palma asks for US intervention |
Aug 24 |
Cincinnati Red John Weimer no-hits Dodgers, 1-0 in 7 inning game |
Aug 29 |
Bridge in St Lawrence Canada caves in; 70 die |
Aug 29 |
William J Clothier wins the US Tennis Open |
Aug 30 |
Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game |
Aug 30 |
NY Highlander Joe Doyle debuts pitching back-to-back shut-outs |
Sep 1 |
Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time |
Sep 1 |
British New Guinea placed under Australian administration |
Sep 1 |
Joseph Harris (Boston) & Jack Coombs (A's) pitch complete 24 inn game |
Sep 1 |
NY Highlanders win 6th game in 3 days from Wash (3 straight DHs) |
Sep 1 |
The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established. |
Sep 3 |
Phila Giants win Negro Championship Cup in Phila before 10,000 fans |
Sep 3 |
Yanks win 2nd game on a forfeit over A's; 2nd forfeit win |
Sep 4 |
NY Highlanders win 5th straight doubleheader |
Sep 5 |
1st legal forward pass (Brandbury Robinson to Jack Schneider) |
Sep 7 |
Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully. |
Sep 11 |
Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa. |
Sep 12 |
The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar. |
Sep 13 |
1st airplane flight in Europe |
Sep 16 |
Kaarlo Nieminen wins 1st Finnish marathon |
Sep 16 |
Roald Amundsen discovers Magnetic South Pole |
Sep 17 |
Playing as "Sullivan," Columbia University jr Eddie Collins debuts with A's |
Sep 18 |
A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong. |
Sep 20 |
Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle, England. |
Sep 21 |
Yankee 1st baseman Hal Chase's 22 put-outs ties record |
Sep 22 |
Race riot in Atlanta Georgia, kills 21 |
Sep 22 |
In New Zealand, Domestic workers call for a 68-hour working week |
Sep 24 |
St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game |
Sep 24 |
V Herbert & H Blossom's musical "Red Mill" premieres in NYC |
Sep 24 |
Prince George of Greece, convinced that he can no longer serve the cause of Crete, resigns as High Commissioner |
Sep 25 |
John Galsworthy's "Silver Box" premieres in London |
Sep 25 |
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. |
Sep 26 |
Pitts Lefty Leifield no-hits Phillies, 8-0 in 6 inning game |
Sep 28 |
US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909 |
Sep 29 |
US intervenes in Cuba ousts dictator Estrada Palma |
Sep 30 |
Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana. |
Oct 1 |
Hugh Jennings resigns as Balt manager to take over at Detroit in 1907 |
Oct 2 |
Tommy Burns KOs Jim Burns in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Oct 3 |
SOS adopted as warning signal by 1st conference on wireless telegraphy |
Oct 3 |
US regime names Charles Magoon, governor of Cuba |
Oct 3 |
William Vaughan Moody's "Great Divide" premieres in NYC |
Oct 4 |
Chicago Cubs win their 116th game (116-36 .763) of year |
Oct 5 |
Henry Mathewson (NY Giants, Christy's brother) walks 14 men |
Oct 6 |
The Majlis of Iran convened for the first time. |
Oct 8 |
Karl Nessler demonstrates first 'permanent wave' for hair in London |
Oct 11 |
White Sox Ed Walsh strikes out then record 12 in a World Series game |
Oct 11 |
San Francisco Board of Education orders segregation in separate schools of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean children sparking diplomatic crisis |
Oct 14 |
All Chicago World Series, 1st AL victory, White Sox win 4 games to 2 Cubs losers share of $439.50 is lowest for World Series |
Oct 20 |
Dr Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube) |
Oct 22 |
3000 blacks demonstrate & riot in Phila |
Oct 22 |
Henry Ford becomes President of Ford Motor Company |
Oct 25 |
Georges Clemenceau succeeds Ferdinand Sarien premier of France |
Oct 25 |
US inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion", a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio & broadcasting |
Oct 28 |
Belgian-British "Union Minière du Haut Katanga" mining company created in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo |
Oct 31 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar & Cleopatra" premieres in NYC |
Nov 6 |
Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY Gov beats William Randolph Hearst |
Nov 6 |
Chinese Government ministries are reorganized as part of the movement towards constitutional government; but in fact the Manchu princes retain control and there is little gain for the Chinese people |
Nov 9 |
Theodore Roosevelt is 1st US President to visit other countries (Puerto Rico and Panama) |
Nov 11 |
Ethel Smyth's "Standrecht" premieres in Leipzig |
Nov 12 |
C W Gregory (NSW v Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps |
Nov 13 |
C W Gregory out for 383 as NSW make 763 v Queensland |
Nov 14 |
President Theodore Roosevelt visits Panama |
Nov 18 |
Langdon Mitchells "New York Idea" premieres in NYC |
Nov 19 |
London selected to host 1908 Olympics |
Nov 20 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Doctor's Dilemma" premieres in London |
Nov 21 |
China prohibits opium trade |
Nov 22 |
International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help |
Nov 22 |
Peter Stolypin, Prime Minister of Russia, introduces agrarian reforms allowing peasants to withdraw from the communes and take their share of land for private ownership |
Nov 23 |
Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, convicted of polygamy |
Nov 28 |
Tommy Burns & Jack O'Brien fight to a draw in 20 for hw boxing title |
Dec 1 |
Cinema Omnia Pathe, world's 1st cinema, opens (Paris) |
Dec 1 |
Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt (Capt of Köpenick) sentenced to 4 yrs |
Dec 4 |
Alpha Phi Alpha, 1st Black Greek Letter Fraternity, forms |
Dec 5 |
British government of Balfour resigns |
Dec 6 |
The British grant Transvaal self-government |
Dec 9 |
NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed US Senate commission on the Congo |
Dec 10 |
Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
Dec 11 |
US president Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo |
Dec 12 |
Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Sec of Commerce |
Dec 13 |
German chancellor Bernhard von Bulow disbands the Parliament |
Dec 20 |
Venezuela (under vice-pres Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet |
Dec 21 |
British Parliament pass two important pieces of social legislation: The Trades Disputes Bill, legalizing peaceful picketing, and The Workingmen's Compensation Act, broadening employers' liability for accidents |
Dec 24 |
Reginald A Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio (Mass) |
Dec 27 |
1st annual meeting of American Sociological Society, Providence, RI |
Dec 28 |
Ecuador adopts its constitution |
Dec 29 |
Montreal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (NS) for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1906) |
Dec 30 |
Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy |
Dec 30 |
The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan. |
Dec 31 |
French/British/Italian treaty concerning rights on Abyssinia |
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