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List of events
Events from the year 1906 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
January–March
February 26:
The Jungle exposes corruption in the meat packing industry.
April–June
April 18:
1906 San Francisco earthquake .
April 5 – The
Maryland General Assembly authorises the erection of the
Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument in
Baltimore .
April 14 – The first service is held at
African Methodist Episcopal Church in
Los Angeles by W. J. Seymour, in a series later known as the
Azusa Street Revival , an event which launches the
Pentecostal movement in Christianity.
April 18 – The
1906 San Francisco earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the
San Andreas Fault destroys much of
San Francisco, California , killing at least 3,000 people, with 225,000–300,000 left homeless, and $350,000,000 in damages.
May 27 – The first inmates are moved to the
Culion leper colony by the American
Insular Government of the Philippine Islands .
June –
Josephine Terranova is acquitted by a New York City jury of the murder of abusive relatives.
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June 6 –
Durham and Southern Railway operates its first revenue train, Bonsal to Durham,
North Carolina .
June 8 –
Theodore Roosevelt signs the
Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the
president to restrict the use of certain parcels of
public land with historical or conservation value.
June 18 – The Lake County Times (later
The Times of Northwest Indiana ) begins publication.
June 25 –
Harry K. Thaw shoots architect
Stanford White at the roof garden theatre of
Madison Square Garden (designed by White) in New York City.
June 28 – Osage Allotment Act allocates land to members of the
Osage Nation in
Oklahoma .
June 29 –
Mesa Verde is declared a National Park.
June 30 – The
United States Congress passes the
Meat Inspection Act and
Pure Food and Drug Act .
July–September
September 5: The first legal
forward pass in an
American football .
July 11 –
Murder of Grace Brown , a factory worker whose killing causes a nationwide sensation.
July 14 –
Gary, Indiana is founded by the
United States Steel Corporation .
August 23 – Unable to control a rebellion in the newly formed Cuban Republic, President
Tomás Estrada Palma requests U.S. intervention.
September 5 –
Bradbury Robinson of
St. Louis University throws the first legal
forward pass in an
American football game.
September 22 –
Atlanta race riot : Race riots in
Atlanta, Georgia result in 27 people killed and the Black-owned business district severely damaged.
September 24 – U.S. President
Theodore Roosevelt proclaims
Devils Tower , Wyoming as the nation's first
National Monument .
September 26 – The first concert of the
Telharmonium , the first music synthesizer, is presented at Telharmonic Hall, Broadway at 39th St., New York City.
September 30 – The first
Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team, piloting the balloon United States , lands in
Fylingdales ,
Yorkshire ,
England ,
UK .
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January–February
March–April
May–June
May 3 –
Mary Astor , actress and writer (died 1987)
May 11
May 12 –
Maurice Ewing , geophysicist and oceanographer (died 1974)
May 19 –
Bruce Bennett , athlete and actor (died 2007)
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May 23 –
Allan Scott , screenwriter (died 1995)
May 28 –
Phil Regan , actor (died 1996)
June 3 –
Josephine Baker , actress (died
1975 in France )
June 19 –
Earl W. Bascom , rodeo pioneer, artist, inventor (died 1995)
June 22 –
Anne Morrow Lindbergh , author and aviator (died 2001)
June 26 –
Viktor Schreckengost , industrial designer (died 2008)
July–August
July 1 –
Estée Lauder , cosmetics entrepreneur (died 2004)
July 7 –
Satchel Paige , baseball player (died 1982)
July 18 –
S. I. Hayakawa , Canadian-born American academic and politician, U.S. Senator from California from 1977 to 1983 (died
1992 )
August 6 –
Vic Dickenson , trombonist (died 1984)
August 9 –
Robert L. Surtees , cinematographer (died 1985)
August 12 –
Tedd Pierce , animator (died 1972)
August 17 –
Hazel Bishop , chemist and inventor of "no-smear" lipstick (died 1998)
August 19 –
Philo Farnsworth , American inventor and television pioneer (died 1971)
August 27 –
Ed Gein , serial killer (died 1984)
September–October
November–December
November 1 –
Johnny Indrisano , boxer and actor (died 1968)
November 5 –
Fred Lawrence Whipple , astronomer (died 2004)
November 14 –
Louise Brooks , actress (died 1985)
November 15 –
Curtis LeMay , U.S.A.F. general, vice-presidential candidate (died 1990)
November 18 –
George Wald , scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)
December 9 –
Grace Hopper , computer scientist and naval officer (died 1992)
December 11 –
Herman Welker , U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1951 to 1957 (died 1957)
December 27 –
Oscar Levant , pianist, composer, author, comedian and actor (died 1972)
Deaths
January 25
February 9 –
Paul Laurence Dunbar , poet and publisher (born 1872)
February 18 –
John B. Stetson , hat manufacturer and inventor of the
cowboy hat (born
1830 )
February 27 –
Samuel Pierpont Langley , astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer (born 1834)
March 4 –
John Schofield , 28th
United States Secretary of War and
Commanding General of the United States Army (born
1831 )
March 13 –
Susan B. Anthony , civil rights and women's suffrage activist (born 1820)
April 11
April 24 –
Mary Hunt , temperance activist (born 1830)
April 25 –
John Knowles Paine , composer (born
1839 )
May 12 –
Gabriel C. Wharton , civil engineer and Confederate general (born
1824 )
May 14 –
Carl Schurz , German-born statesman (born 1829)
May 15 –
John K. Bucklyn ,
Medal of Honor recipient (born
1834 )
June 17 –
Harry Nelson Pillsbury , chess champion (born 1872)
June 25 –
Stanford White , architect (born
1853 )
September 20 –
Robert R. Hitt , 13th
Assistant Secretary of State (born
1834 )
September 21 –
Samuel Arnold , conspirator involved in the plot to kidnap U.S. President
Abraham Lincoln in 1865 (born
1834 )
October 6 –
Buck Ewing , American baseball player
New York Giants and
MLB Hall of Famer (born
1859 )
October 9 –
Joseph Glidden , inventor of
barbed wire (born
1813 )
October 16 –
Varina Davis , wife of
Jefferson Davis , First Lady of the
Confederate States of America (born
1826 )
October 17 –
James D. Walker , United States Senator from Arkansas from 1879 till 1885 (born
1830 )
November 4 –
John H. Ketcham , politician (born 1832)
November 23 –
Willard Warner , United States Senator from Alabama from 1868 till 1871 (born
1826 )
December 12 –
Arthur Brown , United States Senator from Utah from 1896 till 1897 (born
1843 )
December 22 –
Richard S. Rust , abolitionist (born
1815 )
December 30 –
Thomas M. Bowen , United States Senator from Colorado from 1883 till 1889 (born
1835 )
December 31 –
Donelson Caffery , United States Senator from Louisiana from 1892 till 1901 (born 1835)
See also
External links
References
^ "Josephine Terranova Promptly Acquitted",
Boston Daily Globe , June 2, 1906.
^ Gregory, Rick (1980).
"Robertson County and the Black Patch War, 1904-1909" . Tennessee Historical Quarterly . 39 (3): 341–358.
ISSN
0040-3261 .
JSTOR
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^
"Summer Theater Producer John Kenley Dies at 103" . Backstage . October 30, 2009.
Archived from the original on August 14, 2016. Retrieved January 11, 2016 .
^
"Olympian and actor Herman Brix dies" . Archived from
the original on March 7, 2007. Retrieved March 3, 2007 . . Associated Press. March 1, 2007.
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" 'Towering' Conservationist Edgar Wayburn, Dies at 103" .
Environment News Service . March 9, 2010. Archived from
the original on January 27, 2013.
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"Dr. Henry Monroe "Hank" Beachell Obituary (2006) Lincoln Journal Star" .
Legacy.com .