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November 1 – Johnny Indrisano, boxer and actor (died 1968) November 5 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, astronomer (died 2004) November 14 – Louise Brooks, actress (died 1985) November 15 – Curtis LeMay, U.S.A.F. general, vice-presidential candidate (died 1990) November 18 – George Wald, scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)
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 ...
April 18 – The 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroys the unfinished premises of Stanford University Library. [3] Many of the city's leading poets and writers retreat to join the arts colony at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California known as The Barness. May–October – Jack London's novel White Fang is serialized in the American magazine Outing.
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 make a powered flight. [84] [85] [86] 1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont and his Santos-Dumont 14-bis make the first public flight of an airplane on October 23, 1906, in Paris ...
An Encyclopedia of World History (5th ed. 1973); highly detailed outline of events online free Morris, Richard B. and Graham W. Irwin, eds. Harper Encyclopedia of the Modern World: A Concise Reference History from 1760 to the Present (1970) online
May 5 – William M. Robbins, U.S. Representative from North Carolina (born 1828) May 12 – Sam S. Shubert, theater owner (born 1878) May 23 – Mary Livermore, journalist, abolitionist and women's rights advocate (born 1820) July 1 – John Hay, author, biographer and 37th United States Secretary of State (born 1838)
[1] 23 October – suffragettes disrupt the State Opening of Parliament. [2] 2 December – HMS Dreadnought commissioned. 10 December – J. J. Thomson wins the Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases." [11] 13 December
1906 in the United States by state or territory (52 C) 1906 disestablishments in the United States (17 C, 2 P) 1906 establishments in the United States (56 C, 34 P)