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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 ...
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 ...
Few have been taught about the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre, which shaped the city's geography, economy, society and power structure in lasting ways.
April 18 – The San Francisco earthquake, an estimated 7.9 on the Richter scale and centered on the San Andreas Fault, strikes near San Francisco, California.The earthquake and fire destroy over 80% of the buildings in the city, and kill as many as 6,000 people.
Everyone who moves through downtown Atlanta today passes places where innocent Black men and women were pulled from trolleys, shot The post Atlanta’s image challenged by facts of 1906 race ...
1906 Typesetting. Typesetting is the retrieval of the stored letters and the ordering of them according to a language's orthography for visual display. Typesetting was invented by John Raphael Rogers of Brooklyn, New York, who filed U.S. patent #837127 on October 8, 1906, and issued to him on November 27, 1906. [119] [120] 1906 Flushometer