1906 Calendar
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1906 Historical Event(s)
January 25, 1906
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
February 18, 1906
– Edouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
April 22, 1906
– The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
May 26, 1906
– Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
June 30, 1906
– The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
July 11, 1906
– The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.
September 7, 1906
– Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
September 30, 1906
– The Real Academia Galega, Galician language’s biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
October 16, 1906
– The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
December 30, 1906
– The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan.
Who Were Born On 1906?
February 20, 1906
– Gale Gordon, American television and radio actor (d. 1995)
February 28, 1906
– Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947)
March 4, 1906
– Buck Canel, Argentine American sportscaster (d. 1980)
April 22, 1906
– Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (d. 1947)
May 17, 1906
– Zinka Milanov, Croatian soprano (d. 1989)
June 3, 1906
– Josephine Baker, American dancer (d. 1975)
September 6, 1906
– Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
September 25, 1906
– Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
October 9, 1906
– Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)
October 12, 1906
– John Murray, American playwright (d.1984)