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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 ...
March 4, 1905 – President Roosevelt begins full term, Fairbanks becomes the 26th vice president; 1905 – Niagara Falls conference; 1905 – Industrial Workers of the World; 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes his theory of relativity; 1906 – Susan B. Anthony dies; 1906 – Algeciras Conference; 1906 – Pure Food and Drug Act and Federal ...
1906 is a 2004 American historical novel written by James Dalessandro. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] With a 38-page outline and six finished chapters, he pitched it around Hollywood in 1998 for a film by the same name, based upon events surrounding the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.
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 ...
[1] April 10–October 13 – Maxim Gorky visits the United States with his mistress, the actress Maria Andreyeva, to raise funds for the Bolsheviks. [2] In the Adirondack Mountains he writes his novel of revolutionary conversion and struggle, The Mother (Мать, Mat'). The couple then move to Capri.
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 ...
Henry Watson Fowler and Frank Fowler's book The King's English. John Galsworthy's first Forsyte Saga novel The Man of Property. Rudyard Kipling's historical fantasy Puck of Pook's Hill. William Le Queux and H. W. Wilson's invasion literature novel The Invasion of 1910 (originally serialised in the Daily Mail from 19 March).
The 1906 State of the Union Address was written by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, on Monday, December 3, 1906. He did not speak directly to the 59th United States Congress. He said, "The readiness and efficiency of both the Army and Navy in dealing with the recent sudden crisis in Cuba illustrate afresh their value ...