1906 - What happened in 1906 ?

January 1906

Monday 08:

A landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20 due to the excavation of clay along the Hudson River.

February 1906

Thursday 15:

The British Labour Party is organized.

March 1906

Thursday 08:

Moro Crater Massacre: US troops occupying the Philippines massacre about 600 men, women and children taking refuge in a crater.

Thursday 15:

Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.

Saturday 31:

The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for amateur sports in the United States.

April 1906

Saturday 07:

The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.

Wednesday 18:

The Los Angeles Times runs a front-page story on the Azusa Street Revival, launching Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.

Friday 27:

Salem, Ohio celebrates its Centennial.http://www.salemohio.com

May 1906

Tuesday 22:

The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, opens in Athens.

Wednesday 23:

Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".

Saturday 26:

Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.

September 1906

Saturday 01:

the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.

Wednesday 05:

Brandbury Robinson throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.

Thursday 13:

First airplane flight in Europe

Tuesday 18:

A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.

October 1906

Thursday 11:

San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.

Tuesday 16:

The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.

Tuesday 23:

Alberto Santos-Dumont flies the 14-bis in the first officially-recognised heavier-than-air flight at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France.

November 1906

Friday 09:

Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country (to inspect progress on the Panama Canal).

Friday 16:

Opera star Enrico Caruso is charged with an indecent act after allegedly pinching a woman's bottom in the monkey house of New York's Central Park Zoo.

December 1906

Tuesday 04:

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity in the United States established for men of African descent, was founded at Cornell University.

Monday 10:

Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Monday 24:

The first radio program, consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, is broadcast.