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NEWS - 1906

         

January 1906

  • Winston Churchill is elected to Parliament

  • British suffragettes prepare to use violence to win the vote

  • Tsarist Russia is reported to be hindering distribution of $3,000,000 donated by Americans to assist Russian Jews

  • Largest individual taxpayer in U.S., merchant Marshall Field, dies at age 70

February 1906

  • President Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter, Alice, marries the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

  • British launch world’s largest battleship

  • Cyclone kills 10,000 in South Pacific

  • New York City police begin using fingerprint identification

March 1906

  • Susan B. Anthony, American suffragette, dies

  • Algeciras Conference concludes with agreement on foreign involvement in Morocco

  • Census of the British Empire reveals Great Britain controls 20 percent of the world

  • Harvard University physical director concludes that contact sports, especially basketball, endanger the health of women

April 1906

  • San Francisco is devastated by earthquake

  • Mount Vesuvius erupts

May 1906

  • Alpine Tunnel connecting Italy and Switzerland opens

  • Russia’s first democratic parliament meets

June 1906

  • Pure Food and Drug Act becomes law

  • Architect Stanford White is shot by his lover’s husband

  • Antitrust suit against Standard Oil begins

July 1906

  • Captain Alfred Dreyfus is fully exonerated of spying for Germany, and receives the French Legion of Honor

  • Russell Sage dies, leaving a fortune of $80 million

  • Pacific Express derails into the Hudson River, killing 45 passengers

August 1906

  • Chilean earthquake kills 5,000

  • Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. increases fare to ten cents

September 1906

  • Peasants attack Russian estates

  • Race riots occur in Atlanta, Georgia

October 1906

  • Paul Cezanne dies

  • SOS is adopted as a warning signal at first conference on wireless telegraphy

  • Tidal wave in Florida Keys kills 2,500

November 1906

  • U. S. troops land in Cuba

  • President Theodore Roosevelt embarks upon first official visit by an American Chief Executive to a foreign nation

  • Head of Mormon Church is charged with polygamy following birth of his 43rd child

December 1906

  • Theodore Roosevelt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize

  • Racial rioting erupts in Mississippi