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1906

1 ________ – Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess champion (b.

2 September 30 – The first ________ is held, starting in Paris.

3 March 25 – ________, English historian (d.

4 January 22 – The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, ________, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster.

5 May 20 – ________, Italilan Roman Catholic cardinal (d.

6 ________, American astronomer (d.

7 ________ – Susan B. Anthony, American civil rights and women's suffrage activist (b.

8 July 12 – ________ is exonerated.

9 ________ – Ernst Boris Chain, German-born British biochemist, Nobel laureate (d.

10 ________ – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the bestselling 1906 erotic novel Josephine Mutzenbacher is thought to have been written by Felix Salten, the author of Bambi?
  • the first helicopter flight was in 1906 in Lisieux, France?
  • the first Russian parliament of 1906 and the Russian Constituent Assembly of 1918 convened in the Tauride Palace (pictured) of Catherine the Great?
  • the Temple Sanitarium hired the first female anesthesiologist to work in the U.S., Dr. Claudia Potter, in 1906?
  • the battleship Satsuma of the Imperial Japanese Navy was the first ship in the world to be designed and laid down as an "all-big-gun" battleship, although the British HMS Dreadnought was eventually the first one to be completed in 1906?
  • Canada's first dedicated movie theater, the Ouimetoscope, was created in 1906 with an original investment of only seventy-five dollars?
  • a 1906 football match between a team of youngsters from Kraków and the troupe of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show is one of the milestones in the history of football in Poland?
  • during the 72 day session of the First State Duma in 1906, a total of 391 requests about illegal actions of the Russian government were filed, but only two laws were passed?
  • Samuel Spencer, first president of the Southern Railway was killed in a train wreck in Virginia in 1906?