1906

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1870s  1880s  1890s  – 1900s –  1910s  1920s  1930s
Years:	1903 1904 1905 – 1906 – 1907 1908 1909

1906 Media

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  January 31: Ecuador earthquake (8.8).

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  The ruins of San Francisco following the April 18 earthquake and later fires

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  John Carradine in a publicity photograph for the televsion series The Green Hornet - Episode 23, Alias The Scarf (1967)

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  The astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto here shown with his homemade 9-inch telescope.

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  MANCHURIA PERIOD PUYI

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  Dr Nazim al-Qudsi (1900-1998), the new President of Syria. Qudsi had been ambassador and deputy in the 1940s, and prime minister and parliamentary speaker in the 1950s. He was a co-founder of the People's Party of Aleppo. Qudsi was the last civilian leader to rule Syria.

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  Nobel prize winner Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

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  Publicity photo of Bea Benadaret.

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  Samuel Beckett.

1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday in the Julian calendar.

Events

• April 18 – An earthquake in San Francisco, California kills at least three thousand people.
• Camillo Golgi, Italian doctor, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Santiago Ramón y Cajal
• Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish doctor, won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Camillo Golgi

Births

• January 11 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss scientist, invented LSD (d. 2008)
• January 14 - William Bendix, American actor (d. 1964)
• March 6 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (d. 1959)
• April 13 – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer (d. 1989)
• April 28 – Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American mathematician (d. 1978)
• July 14 – William H. Tunner, American World War II general (d. 1983)
• August 27 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
• September 25 – José Figueres Ferrer, President of Costa Rica (d. 1990)
• September 25 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Soviet composer (d. 1975)
• October 30 – Alexander Gode, German-American linguist and translator (d. 1970)
• November 14 – Louise Brooks, American actress and dancer (d. 1985)
• December 19 – Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)

Hit songs

• "Anchors Aweigh"

Movies Released

• Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, the first animated movie
• The Story of the Kelly Gang, the first feature-length movie