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April 18: 1906 San Francisco earthquake. April 5 – The Maryland General Assembly authorises the erection of the Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Baltimore . April 14 – The first service is held at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles by W. J. Seymour, in a series later known as the Azusa Street Revival , an event which ...
1927 – Columbia Broadcasting System (later called CBS) was founded, and becomes the second national radio network in the U.S. 1927 – The 15,000,000th Model T rolled off the Assembly Line at Ford Motor Company. 1927 – Babe Ruth hits a record 60 home runs in a single season
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 (1988), highly detailed history of Reconstruction emphasizing Black and abolitionist perspective; Hamilton, Peter Joseph. The Reconstruction Period (1906), history of era using Dunning School 570 pp; chapter on each state; Nevins, Allan. The Emergence of Modern America 1865–1878 (1927)
On April 9, 1906, after five weeks of Seymour's preaching and prayer, and three days into an intended 10-day fast, [15] Edward S. Lee spoke in tongues for the first time. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] At the next meeting, Seymour shared Lee's testimony and preached a sermon on Acts 2 :4 and soon six others began to speak in tongues as well, [ 10 ] [ 17 ...
From left, clockwise: The Wright brothers achieve the first manned flight with a motorized airplane, in Kitty Hawk in 1903; A missionary points to the severed hand of a Congolese villager, symbolic of Belgian atrocities in the Congo Free State; The 1908 Messina earthquake kills 75,000–82,000 people and becomes the most destructive earthquake ever to strike Europe; America gains control over ...
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 ...
A tremendous earthquake strikes the San Francisco region, April 18, 1906; The United States reoccupies Cuba, September 29, 1906 – January 28, 1909; The Territory of Oklahoma is admitted to the Union as the State of Oklahoma (the 46th state) on November 16, 1907; William Howard Taft becomes the 27th president of the United States on March 4, 1909
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 ...