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1906 Calendar

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•  January 25, 1906 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
•  April 7, 1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
•  April 8, 1906 – Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, dies.
•  April 14, 1906 – The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
•  May 2, 1906 – Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
•  June 22, 1906 – The flag of Sweden is adopted.
•  August 4, 1906 – Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.
•  August 5, 1906 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
•  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.

•  April 9, 1906 – Rafaela Aparicio, Spanish actress (d. 1996)
•  April 24, 1906 – William Joyce, Irish fascist (d. 1946)
•  May 6, 1906 – Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (d. 2005)
•  June 19, 1906 – Walter Rauff, German colonel (d. 1984)
•  June 30, 1906 – Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
•  August 5, 1906 – Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
•  October 12, 1906 – Joe Cronin, American baseball player and executive (d. 1984)
•  October 15, 1906 – Victoria Spivey, American blues singer and songwriter (d. 1976)
•  November 4, 1906 – Sterling North, American author (d. 1974)