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April 18 – The 1906 San Francisco earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3,000 people, with 225,000–300,000 left homeless, and $350,000,000 in damages.
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
The revival began on April 9, 1906, and continued until roughly 1915. Seymour was invited to Los Angeles for a one-month engagement at a local church, but found himself barred due to his controversial views on baptism with the Holy Spirit after his first Sunday. He continued his ministry in the homes of sympathetic parishioners, and on the ...
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 ...
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) A.
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre, also known as the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, was an episode of mass racial violence against African Americans in the United States in September 1906.
The Cananea strike, also known as the Cananea riot, [1] or the Cananea massacre, [2] took place in the Mexican mining town of Cananea, Sonora, in June 1906.Although the workers were forced to return to their positions with no demand being met, the action was a key event in the general unrest that emerged during the final years of the regime of President Porfirio Díaz and that prefigured the ...
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