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October 1 – The Madeira School, a private boarding school for girls, opens with 28 students attending classes in two buildings on 19th Street, just off Dupont Circle in downtown Washington, D.C. October 11 – The San Francisco public school board sparks a United States diplomatic crisis with Japan , by ordering Japanese students to be taught ...
1906 – San Francisco earthquake; 1907 – Oklahoma becomes a state; 1907 – Gentlemen's Agreement; 1907 – Coal mine explodes in Monongah, West Virginia, killing at least 361. Worst industrial accident in American history. 1908 – Ford Model T appears on the market; 1908 – Root–Takahira Agreement; 1908 – Federal Bureau of ...
1906 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 ...
1906 – Traian Vuia of Romania takes off with his "Traian Vuia 1", an early monoplane. His flight was performed in Montesson near Paris and was about 12 meters long. [83] 1906 – Jacob Ellehammer of Denmark constructs the Ellehammer semi-biplane. In this machine, he made a tethered flight on September 12, 1906, becoming the second European to ...
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The 3 tine fork has a larger, flattened and beveled tine on the side while the 4 tine fork has the 1st and 2nd tine connected or bridged together and beveled. On July 7, 1891, Anna M. Mangin of Queens, a borough of New York City, filed the first patent for the pastry fork. U.S. patent #470,005 was later issued on March 1, 1892. [25]
[3] 15 May – Our Dumb Friends League opens its first animal hospital, in Victoria, London. [4] 26 May – opening of Vauxhall Bridge in London. [1] 30 May – Royal Navy battleship HMS Montagu runs aground on the island of Lundy and becomes a loss. [5] 22 June – the present King's daughter Maud is crowned as queen consort of Norway.
17 February – Käte Selbmann, German politician (died 1962) [1] 3 March – Will Eisenmann, German-Swiss composer (died 1992) 19 May – Gerd Bucerius, German journalist (died 1995) 6 June – Max August Zorn, German-born American mathematician (died 1993) 19 June – Ernst Boris Chain, German biochemist (died 1979)