Historical Events In 1906
Mar 10 London Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line)
Mar 10 Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France
Mar 17 Japan nationalises its railways
Mar 15 Brits Rolls, Royce and Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd
Mar 29 In Winnipeg Manitoba, street railway employees riot during two-day strike.
Mar 16 Kagi, Formosa a 7.1 earthquake caused 1,300 deaths. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.
Mar 12 Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
Mar 06 Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands
Mar 09 Coal miners at Lethbridge Alberta go on strike; until December 2
Mar 07 Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor
Mar 06 Nora Blatch becomes first woman elected to American Society of Civil Engineers
Mar 14 Calgary City Rugby Football Club forms
Mar 03 Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France
Mar 19 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's "Quattro Rusteghi", premieres in Munich
Mar 31 George Bernard Shaw's German version of "Caesar and Cleopatra", premieres in Berlin
Mar 24 "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world - how things will change!
Mar 31 King Edward VII grants British Columbia's Coat-of-Arms.
Mar 17 President Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckraker"
Aug 02 Chicago White Sox begin record 19 game win streak
Aug 13 Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas
Aug 22 First Victor Victrola manufactured
Aug 01 Chicago White Sox begin record 19 game win streak
Aug 15 First freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago
Aug 05 The birth of John Huston, American film director
Sep 09 Cpl. Leo Clark (2nd Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Pozières France
Sep 28 US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909
Sep 01 Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time
Sep 01 Papua placed under Australian administration
Sep 13 The first airplane flight in Europe
Feb 15 British Labour Party organizes
Feb 19 W K Kellogg &Charles D Bolin incorporate Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, Battle Creek MI
Feb 22 Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in Los Angeles CA
Feb 10 Britain's first modern & largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched, it changed the battleship concept fo rthe world
Feb 01 English Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured
Feb 23 Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart for heavyweight boxing champion in 20 rounds
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