Page 5: Historical Events In 1906
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Mar 29 E Power Biggs, Westcliff-on-Sea England, organist/composer (CBS). 


Mar 29 In Winnipeg Manitoba, street railway employees riot during two-day strike 


Mar 29 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Kenora Thisles in 2 games. 


Mar 30 Betsy Perk, [Christina E], journalist/writer/feminist, dies at 73. 


Mar 31 GB Shaws German version of "Caesar and Cleopatra," premieres in Berlin" 


Mar 31 George Bernard Shaw's German version of "Caesar and Cleopatra", premieres in Berlin. 


Mar 31 King Edward VII grants British Columbia's Coat-of-Arms. 


Mar 31 Lauri Saikkola, composer. 


Apr 01 Ned Glass, Poland, actor (Sol-Julia, Uncle Moe-Bridget Loves Bernie) 


Apr 02 South Africa complete a 4-1 series drubbing of England 


Apr 03 Kathleen Tillotson, Emeritus Professor of English (Bedford College). 


Apr 04 Bea Benaderet, NYC, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction) 


Apr 05 Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock, English agronomist. 


Apr 05 St Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland". 


Apr 06 1st animated cartoon copyrighted 


Apr 06 Alexander L Kielland, Norwegian writer (Working People), dies at 57. 


Apr 06 John Betjeman, English Poet Laureate 1972-1984 (Mount Zion) 


Apr 06 The inaugural animated cartoon copyrighted. 


Apr 07 Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police and banking business. 


Apr 07 Italian volcano 'Versuvius' erupts. 


Apr 08 Charles J B Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer (Mirror of the Sea). 


Apr 09 3½th modern Olympic games opens in Athens (4/22 NS). 


Apr 09 3«th modern Olympic games opens in Athens (4/22 NS). 


Apr 09 Antal Dorati, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Dresden Opera 1928-29. 


Apr 10 Fud Livingston, composer. 


Apr 11 Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity 


Apr 11 Georgi Apollonovitch Gapon, Rus-orthodox clergyman/tsarist agent, dies. 


Apr 13 Budd [Lawrence] Freeman, US jazz saxophonist (Eel) 


Apr 13 M Wolf discovers asteroid #598 Octavia. 


Apr 13 Mutiny on Portuguese battleships Dom Carlos and Vasco da Gama 


Apr 13 Samuel Beckett, French author is born 


Apr 14 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, King Saudi-Arabia (1964-75). 


Apr 14 Pres Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in US press 


Apr 15 A J "Sandy" Bell, S Afr cricket fast bowler (16 Tests 1929-35) 


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