List of events
Events from the year 1906 in the United States .
Incumbents [ edit ] January–March [ edit ] February 26: The Jungle exposes corruption in the meat packing industry. April–June [ edit ] 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.[1] 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 [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] Undated [ edit ] Ongoing [ edit ] January–February [ edit ] March–April [ edit ] May–June [ edit ] 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)[4] 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 [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] November–December [ edit ] 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) 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 [ edit ] External links [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ "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 42626100 . ^ "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. ^ " 'Towering' Conservationist Edgar Wayburn, Dies at 103" . Environment News Service . March 9, 2010. Archived from the original on January 27, 2013. ^ "Dr. Henry Monroe "Hank" Beachell Obituary (2006) Lincoln Journal Star" . Legacy.com .