the encyclopedic entry of 1906

Events of 1906

January 1 - British India officially adopts Indian Standard Time.
January 8 - Landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20.
January 22 - The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, killing over 100 passengers in the ensuing disaster.
January 31 - earthquake in Ecuador (8.6 on the Richter scale).

8 February - The Liberal Party led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman win the United Kingdom general election with a large majority.
February 11 - Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.
February 15 - Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in the UK parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party.
February 28 - Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a novel depicting the life of an immigrant family in Chicago during the early 1900s.

March 27 - The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg by Elizabeth Parker and Arthur Oliver Wheeler.
April 7 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
April 14 - First service held at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles, CA by W.J. Seymour in a series later known as the Azusa Street Revival.
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 3000, with 225,000-300,000 left homeless, $350 million in damages.
April 23 - In Tsarist Russia, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.

The first issue of the Annals of the Natal Government Museum (currently African Invertebrates) is published by Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

June 6 - Durham and Southern Railway operates its first revenue train, Bonsal to Durham, North Carolina.
June 7 - The RMS Lusitania is launched in Glasgow. It is the world's largest ship.
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 9- June 10 - Riots in Stockholm, Ladugårsdgärden - 50 policemen injured.
June 22 - Haakon VII and Maud of Wales are crowned rulers of Norway.
June 25 - Harry K. Thaw shoots architect Stanford White.
June 29 - Mesa Verde declared a National Park.
June 30 - United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.

July 1 - Sporting Clube de Portugal founded.
July 6 - Second Geneva Convention.
July 12 - Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer hastily and wrongly convicted of treason in 1899, is exonerated. He is reinstalled in the French Army July 21, ending the "Dreyfus Affair" that exposed anti-Semitism in French society.
August 16 - A magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Valparaíso, Chile leaves approximately 20,000 dead.
August 22 - The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, is manufactured.
August 23 - Unable to control a rebellion in the newly-formed Cuban republic, Pres. 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 11 - Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
September 18 - Typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 persons in Hong Kong.
September 22 - Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia. At least 27 people are killed and the black-owned business district is severely damaged.
September 24 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower 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 piloted the balloon "United States" landed in Fylingdales, Yorkshire.
October 1

Grand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to adopt universal suffrage, giving women the right to vote.
The Madeira School, a private boarding school for girls, opens with twenty-eight students attending classes in two buildings on 19th Street just off Dupont Circle in downtown Washington, DC.

October 6 - The Majlis of Iran convenes for the first time.
October 11 - San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
October 16 - Imposter Wilhelm Voigt impersonates a Prussian officer and takes over city hall in Köpenick for a short time, amusing all of Germany and other countries.
October 23 - Aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off on Bagatelle in France and flies 60 meters (200 feet).
October 28 - Creation of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust in Congo.

November 3 - SOS becomes an international distress signal.
November 9 - US President Theodore Roosevelt leaves for a trip to Panama to inspect the construction progress of the Panama Canal (the first time a sitting President of the United States makes an official trip outside of the United States).
November 22 - Russian Prime Min. Peter Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.
December 2 - HMS Dreadnought commissioned. First all-big-gun warship.
December 4 - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter organization established for African Americans, is founded at Cornell University.
December 6 - Creation of district of Chimbote.
December 8 - Petrified Forest, Arizona designated a National Monument.
December 10 - Pres. Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating peace in the Russo-Japanese War (1905).
December 14 - The world's first submarine, the U-1, enters the German navy.
December 24 - Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
December 26 - The world's first feature film, "The Story of the Kelly Gang", is released.
December 30 - The All-India Muslim League, a political organization that represented the interests of Indian Muslims, is formed.