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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 – 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 ...
September 28: John Paul I dies, his papacy being one of the shortest in history. October 1: Independence of Tuvalu from Britain. October 9: The Uganda–Tanzania War begins. October 16: John Paul II becomes pope. November 18: Jim Jones's New religious movement, the Peoples Temple, ends in the organized mass killing and suicide of 920 people in ...
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 ...
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Soldier of the 25th Infantry (photo c. 1884–90) Since arriving at Fort Brown on July 28, 1906, the black US soldiers had been required to follow the legal color line mandate from white citizens of Brownsville, which included the state's racial segregation law dictating separate accommodation for black people and white people, and Jim Crow customs such as showing respect for white people, as ...
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