Historical Events in 1906

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• Jan 1 Dutch law makes driver's license mandatory
• Jan 1 First permanent movie theater in Canada, The Ouimetoscope, is opened by Léo Ouimet in Montreal, Quebec
• Jan 1 The poll tax of £1 per head on all adult male inhabitants of Natal, South Africa, except indentured Indians and married Blacks, imposed by the Natal parliament in 1905, becomes payable.

• Jan 4 South Africa beat England by one wicket, their 1st Test win

• Jan 8 A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
• Jan 10 The British and French begin consultations on military and naval issues
• Jan 12 1st time Dow Jones closes above 100 (100.26)
• Jan 12 Football rules committee legalizes forward pass

• Jan 16 -Apr 13] Conference of Algeciras (about Morocco)

• Jan 22 SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130
• Jan 25 Del Valle Inclans "El Marqués de Bradomin" premieres in Madrid
• Jan 27 Rudolf Gundersen skates world record 500m at 44.8 sec
• Jan 29 Dutch speed skater Coen de King skates a world record 32,370m in one hour
• Jan 31 Strongest instrumentally recorded earthquake then recorded at 8.8 on the Richter Scale, occurs off the coast of Ecuador and Colombia killing over 1,00 people
• Feb 1 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas
• Feb 1 Dorothy Grey, wife of British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey is fatally injured in a motor accident
• Feb 2 Pope encyclical against separation of church & state
• Feb 9 Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising
• Feb 10 British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design
• Feb 10 State of siege proclaimed in Zululand

• Feb 15 British Labour Party founded

• Feb 22 Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in Los Angeles, California

• Feb 24 Tomas Estrada Palma defeats Jose Gomez in the election for president of Cuba, but Gomez and his followers refuse to accept results and sponsor an uprising
• Feb 27 France and Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides
• Feb 28 Stanley Cup: Ottawa HC beats Queen's University (Kingston, ON), 12-7 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series
• Mar 3 Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traian Vuia tested in France
• Mar 6 Cubs sign 3rd baseman Harry Steinfeldt to complete Tinker-Evers-Chance
• Mar 6 Heavy storm bursts dike, flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands
• Mar 6 Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Society of Civil Engineers
• Mar 7 Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor
• Mar 8 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa HC beats Smiths Falls (ON), 8-2 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series
• Mar 10 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Sonatine" by pianist Paule de Lestang, in Lyon, France
• Mar 10 Baker Street & Waterloo Railway opens, constructed by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London. The contraction Bakerloo became the official name in July 1906.
• Mar 10 Europe's worst mining accident when a coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres, France
• Mar 12 Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast

• Mar 17 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: ECAHA playoff: Montreal Wanderers lose, 9-3 to Ottawa HC but win challenge series, 12-10 on aggregate
• Mar 17 The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio

• Mar 24 "Census of the British Empire" shows Great Britain rules 1/5th of the world
• Mar 27 Founding of the Alpine Club of Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Mar 31 George Bernard Shaw's 1898 play "Caesar and Cleopatra" premieres in a German version in Berlin, German Empire
• Mar 31 Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States is founded to set rules in amateur sports; becomes the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in 1910
• Apr 2 Dave Nourse takes 4 wickets and Reggie Schwarz 3 as South Africa wins the 5th cricket Test in Cape Town to complete a 4-1 series drubbing of England
• Apr 5 Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates towns in the Naples province, killing more than 100 people
• Apr 5 St Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland"

• Apr 7 Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business
• Apr 13 Mutiny on Portuguese battleships Dom Carlos & Vasco da Gama

• Apr 15 The Armenian organization AGBU is established.

• Apr 18 The Los Angeles Times story on the Azusa Street Revival launches Pentecostalism as a worldwide religious movement
• Apr 19 Belgian naval education ship Comte The Stain de Naeyer sets sail
• Apr 19 SF Earthquake ends killing 452
• Apr 22 Intercalated Games opens in Athens
• Apr 22 New rule puts umpire in sole charge of all game balls
• Apr 26 Motion pictures begin regular showings at the Orpheum Theater in Honolulu, Hawaii
• May 1 Philadelphia Phillies Johnny Lush (20) pitches no-hitter in 6-0 win over Brooklyn Superbas in Washington Park in Brooklyn, New York; the team's last no-hitter until 1964

• May 3 British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
• May 6 "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street, San Francisco allows United Railroads to run electric streetcars
• May 6 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia claims right to legislate by decree and restricts the power of the Duma (Russian Parliament)
• May 8 Philadelphia A's pitcher Albert Bender is deployed to left field in 6th inning and responds with 2 HRs in A's 11-4 win over Boston Americans at Huntington Avenue Grounds, Boston
• May 10 Russian Duma (Parliament) meets for 1st time
• May 13 Bezalel Art School opens in Jerusalem
• May 14 Flagpole at the White Sox ballpark breaks during pennant-raising
• May 15 MLB New York Giants pitcher George "Hooks" Wiltse strikes out 4 Reds batters in 1 inning, as catcher dropped a third strike (Palace of the Fans, in Cincinnati, Ohio)
• May 19 Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes
• May 19 Italian King Victor Emmanuel & Swiss President Ludwig Forrer open Simplon Tunnel; the railroad tunnel trough the Alps is world's longest until 1982
• May 19 Portugal's King Carlos I names Joao Franco premier
• May 21 Louis H. Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars
• May 21 The US and Mexico sign an agreement over distribution of the waters of the Rio Grande, increasingly diverted to the US for irrigation
• May 22 A British garrison leaves Esquimalt, on the Pacific coast, after a military occupation that began in 1858: the last British soldiers stationed in Canada
• May 22 Wright Brothers are granted a patent for their "flying machine," having applied for one 3 years earlier (patent no. 821,393)
• May 25 After 20 straight wins, Boston Pilgrims lose to Chicago White Sox 3-0
• May 26 Archaeological Institute of America forms
• May 26 Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London, England

• May 28 Julian Edwards,Alfred E. Aarons, Ren Shields and Will D. Cobb's musical "His Honor, The Mayor" opens ath New York Theatre, NYC; runs for 104 performances

• Jun 5 Determined to keep pace with Britain as a major naval power, the German Reichstag passes new navy legislation, increasing the total tonnage in Germany's fleet
• Jun 6 Paris Métro Line 5 is inaugurated with a first section from Place d'Italie to the Gare d'Orléans (today known as Gare d'Austerlitz)
• Jun 7 Chicago Cubs score 11 runs in 1st inning of 19-0 drubbing of New York Giants off future Baseball Hall of Famers Christy Mathewson and Joe McGinnity; worst beating in Giants franchise history
• Jun 7 Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches
• Jun 9 Boston Beaneaters (NL) end 19-game losing streak beat Cards 6-3
• Jun 14 Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
• Jun 22 Haakon VII crowned King of Norway
• Jun 27 The IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) established in London with Lord Kelvin as President to standardize electrical units and terms [1]
• Jun 29 US Congress pass the Hepburn Act, permitting the regulation of rates charged by railroads, pipelines, and terminals engaged in interstate commerce
• Jun 30 John Hope becomes 1st black president of Atlanta Baptist College (later known as Morehouse College)

• Jul 2 Yanks win by forfeit for the 1st time
• Jul 4 Great Britain, France, and Italy declare independence of Ethiopia (Abyssinia), but all lay claim to their own 'spheres of influence' in that land

• Jul 15 Republic museum opens Rembrandt hall in Amsterdam

• Jul 20 Brooklyn Superbas pitcher Mal Eason no-hits St Louis Cardinals, 2-0 at Robison Field, St. Louis
• Jul 23 Pogroms against Jews in Odessa, Russia
• Jul 28 Yankees turn triple-play, beat Cleveland 6-4
• Aug 1 Brooklyn Superbas MLB pitcher Harry McIntire no-hits Pittsburgh for 10 2/3 innings but loses in 13th, 1-0 on an unearned run
• Aug 2 Chicago White Sox beat Boston Americans, 3-0 to start AL record 19 game MLB win streak
• Aug 3 Washington Nationals' Tom Hughes becomes first MLB pitcher to win a 1-0 extra innings game off his own home run in 10th v St. Louis Browns
• Aug 10 Pope Pius X condemns 1905 French "Law on the Separation of the Churches and State" which allowed the State authority to control aspects of Catholic orthodoxy and worship (Encyclical "Gravissimo Officii Munere")
• Aug 13 Black soldiers accused of raiding Brownsville in Texas; despite support from local commanding officers, President Theodore Roosevelt orders dishonorable discharge for 167 soldiers; all cleared of wrongdoing 1972, 165 posthumously
• Aug 13 Chicago Cub's pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 MLB games (187 complete, 15 relief) against Brooklyn Superbas in 3rd inning of an 11-3 win at Washington Park, NYC
• Aug 15 1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago

• Aug 16 -17] 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000
• Aug 22 1st Victor Victrola manufactured
• Aug 23 Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Washington Senators, 4-1 at American League Park
• Aug 23 Cuba's 1st president Tomés Estrada Palma asks for US intervention
• Aug 24 Cincinnati Red John Weimer no-hits Dodgers, 1-0 in 7 inning game
• Aug 30 Hal Chase becomes 1st NY Yankee to hit three triples in a game
• Aug 30 NY Highlander Joe Doyle debuts pitching back-to-back shut-outs
• Sep 1 British New Guinea placed under Australian administration
• Sep 1 Canadian province of Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time
• Sep 1 New York Highlanders win their 6th consecutive MLB game in 3 days from Washington Senators; sweep AL record 3 straight double headers
• Sep 1 Philadelphia beats the Red Sox 4-1 in 24 innings in Boston in the longest game in AL baseball history; both starters go the distance as A's hurler Jack Coombs overcomes Boston's Joe Harris
• Sep 1 The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established
• Sep 3 After an 8 minute argument over an umpire call the NY Highlanders win on forfeit over Philadelphia A's; Highlanders' MLB record 5th doubleheader sweep on consecutive days
• Sep 3 Philadelphia Giants win Negro Championship Cup in Philadelphia before 10,000 fans; black baseball's largest crowd ever
• Sep 4 New York Highlanders beat Boston Pilgrims, 7 - 0 and 1 - 0 for their MLB record 5th straight doubleheader sweep
• Sep 5 Saint Louis University quarterback Bradbury Robinson throws first legal forward pass in the history of American football for a TD to Jack Schneider at Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin; Saint Louis wins, 22-0

• Sep 12 The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
• Sep 13 1st airplane flight in Europe, Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont test flies his hybrid 14-bis plane (attached to a hydrogen balloon for take-off), at Bagatelle, France
• Sep 16 Kaarlo Nieminen wins 1st Finnish marathon

• Sep 18 A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong
• Sep 20 Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle, England.
• Sep 21 New York Highlanders 1st baseman Hal Chase has 22 put-outs to tie MLB record in a 6-3 win over Chicago White Sox at South Side Park
• Sep 22 In New Zealand Domestic workers call for a 68-hour working week
• Sep 22 Race riot in Atlanta Georgia, kills 21
• Sep 24 Prince George of Greece, convinced that he can no longer serve the cause of Crete, resigns as High Commissioner
• Sep 24 St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game
• Sep 24 Victor Herbert and Henry Blossom's operetta musical "The Red Mill" opens at the Knickerbocker Theater, NYC
• Sep 25 John Galsworthy's "Silver Box" premieres in London
• Sep 25 Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the Telekino at Bilbao before a great crowd, guiding a boat from the shore, considered the birth of the remote control
• Sep 26 Pitts Lefty Leifield no-hits Phillies, 8-0 in 6 inning game
• Sep 28 US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909
• Sep 29 US intervenes in Cuba ousts dictator Estrada Palma
• Sep 30 Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana
• Oct 2 Canadian world heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns KOs American challenger 'Fireman' Jim Flynn in 15 rounds to retain his title in Los Angeles, California
• Oct 3 US regime names Charles Magoon, governor of Cuba
• Oct 3 William Vaughan Moody's "Great Divide" premieres in NYC
• Oct 4 Chicago Cubs beat Pittsburg Pirates, 4-0 to end MLB season at 116-36 with .763 winning percentage; unmatched since
• Oct 6 The Majlis of Iran convened for the first time.
• Oct 8 Karl Nessler demonstrates first 'permanent wave' for hair in London
• Oct 11 San Francisco Board of Education orders segregation in separate schools of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean children sparking diplomatic crisis

• Oct 20 Dr Lee DeForest demonstrates his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube)
• Oct 22 3000 blacks demonstrate & riot in Philadelphia

• Oct 25 Georges Clémenceau succeeds Ferdinand Sarien as Prime Minister of France
• Oct 25 US inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion", a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio & broadcasting
• Oct 28 Belgian-British "Union Minière du Haut Katanga" mining company created in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Oct 31 George Bernard Shaw's play "Caesar & Cleopatra" premieres in NYC
• Nov 3 International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selects "SOS" (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal as the worldwide standard for help

• Nov 6 Chinese Government ministries are reorganized as part of the movement towards constitutional government; but in fact the Manchu princes retain control and there is little gain for the Chinese people
• Nov 9 Theodore Roosevelt is 1st US President to visit another country (Puerto Rico and Panama)
• Nov 11 Ethel Smyth's "Standrecht" premieres in Leipzig
• Nov 12 C W Gregory (NSW v Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps
• Nov 13 C. W. Gregory out for 383 as NSW make 763 v Queensland, in record cricket innings by an Australian
• Nov 14 US President Theodore Roosevelt visits Panama
• Nov 18 Anarchists bomb St. Peter's Basilica in Rome
• Nov 18 Langdon Mitchell's "New York Idea" premieres in NYC
• Nov 19 London selected to host 1908 Olympics
• Nov 20 George Bernard Shaw's play "Doctor's Dilemma" premieres in London
• Nov 21 China prohibits the opium trade
• Nov 22 Peter Stolypin, Prime Minister of Russia, introduces agrarian reforms allowing peasants to withdraw from the communes and take their share of land for private ownership
• Nov 28 Canadian Tommy Burns retains his world heavyweight boxing title after being pushed to a 20-round draw by 'Philadelphia' Jack O'Brien in Los Angeles, California
• Dec 1 German Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt (Capt of Köpenick) sentenced to 4 years for forgery after posing as Prussian officer
• Dec 4 Alpha Phi Alpha, first Black Greek Letter Fraternity, forms
• Dec 6 The British grant Transvaal self-government
• Dec 9 NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed US Senate commission on the Congo

• Dec 10 US President Theodore Roosevelt is the 1st American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
• Dec 11 US President Theodore Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo
• Dec 12 Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish US government member, appointed Secretary of Commerce

• Dec 20 Venezuela (under vice-pres Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet
• Dec 21 British Parliament pass two important pieces of social legislation: The Trades Disputes Bill, legalizing peaceful picketing, and The Workingmen's Compensation Act, broadening employers' liability for accidents
• Dec 24 Reginald Fessenden becoomes 1st to broadcast music over radio (disputed)
• Dec 27 1st annual meeting of American Sociological Society, Providence, Rhode Island

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