Major Events
- Feb 10 British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design
- Apr 18 San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 while destroying 75% of the city
- 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
- Nov 3 International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selects "SOS" (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal as the worldwide standard for help
- Nov 21 China prohibits the opium trade
- Dec 30 The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, later laid down the foundations of Pakistan
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1906 in Film & TV
- Apr 6 World's first animated cartoon is released, "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces" by J. Stuart Blackton
1906 in Sport
- 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
Did You Know?
Willis Carrier receives a US patent for the world's first air conditioner
Bugsy Siegel
Adolf Eichmann
Faisal of Saudi Arabia
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Grace Hopper
Leonid Brezhnev
Lou Costello
Eddie Albert
Mary Astor
Roberto Rossellini
Josephine Baker
Ed Gein
Dmitri Shostakovich
Peter Carl Goldmark
Mauri Rose
Satchel Paige
Leo Durocher
Harry Hopman
Joe Cronin
Primo CarneraMore People Born in 1906
Fun Fact About 1906
"Census of the British Empire" shows Great Britain rules 1/5th of the world
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Susan B. Anthony
James Anthony Bailey
Henrik Ibsen
Paul CézanneMore 1906 Deaths
Articles About 1906
1st Animated Film
A frame from "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces", released in 1906April 6
San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
Arnold Genthe's famous photograph, looking toward the fire on Sacramento StreetApril 18
Issigonis, The Mini Mastermind
Sir Alec Issigonis, the man who revolutionised the car industry and created a Swinging Sixties icon by designing the groundbreaking Mini, was born on this dayNovember 18
Goodbye Scratchy 78s, Hello Vinyl
Peter Goldmark will most be remembered for creating the long-playing vinyl record. But his many inventions earned him America’s National Medal of Science.December 2
Famous Weddings in 1906
- Jan 23 Composer Igor Stravinsky (23) weds Yekaterina Nosenko
- Feb 17 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice marries in the White House
- Mar 14 Film director D. W. Griffith (31) weds Linda Arvidson (21) at Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts
More Weddings in 1906
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Nicholas II
Theodore Roosevelt
Wilhelm II