In history, year 1906 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1906.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 22 january | The SS Valencia was wrecked off the coast of Vancouver Island,British Columbia, Canada, in a location so treacherous it was known as the Graveyard of the Pacific. |
| 10 february | The Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought was launched,representing such a marked advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships. |
| 18 march | Romanian inventor Traian Vuia became the first person to fly a heavier-than-air monoplane with an unassisted takeoff. |
| 14 april | The Azusa Street Revival, the primary catalyst for the spread of Pentecostalism in the 20th century, opened in Los Angeles. |
| 18 april | A major earthquake and resulting fires devastated San Francisco, killing at least 3,000 people and leaving more than half of the city's population homeless. |
| 26 may | Benjamin Peary Pal was born. Benjamin Peary Pal was the first Director of Indian Council of Agricultural Research. He was one of the foremost scientists in Wheat genetics and breeding. He was a bachelor and donated his property to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1987. |
| 26 may | Vauxhall Bridge in London opened, crossing the River Thamesbetween Vauxhall and Westminster. |
| 27 may | Maharashtra sahitya parishad was established in Pune. Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad is a literary institution situated in the West Indian state of Maharashtra for the purpose of the "furtherance of Marathi language and literature”. The Encyclopedia of Indian Literature considers it as Marathi's first representative literary body. |
| 26 june | The first Grand Prix motor racing event held. The 1906 Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France, commonly known as the 1906 French Grand Prix, was a motor race held on 26 and 27 June 1906, on closed public roads outside the city of Le Mans. The Grand Prix was organized by the Automobile Club de France (ACF) at the prompting of the French automobile industry as an alternative to the Gordon Bennett races, which limited each competing country's number of entries regardless of the size of its industry. |
| 27 june | `Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad' established. Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad is a literary institution situated in the West Indian state of Maharashtra for the purpose of the "furtherance of Marathi language and literature". It was set up in Pune. The Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature considers it as Marathi's first representative literary body. |
| 13 august | The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment were accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; allwere later dishonorably discharged. |
| 16 august | An estimated 8.2 MW earthquake hit Valparaíso, Chile, killing 3,886 people. |
| 21 august | Scandal rocked polite Virginia society when it was discovered that a local optician, a dentist, and a doctor performed an illegal abortion on a prominent woman. Miss Keener who had the abortion worked as a receptionist at Dr. Badgley’s dental office. Each of the doctors had to post a bond of $3,000 each and were to appear in court later. |
| 20 september | The ocean liner RMS Mauretania, the largest and fastest ship inthe world at the time, was launched. |
| 24 november | A local newspaper accused members of two teams of conspiring todeliberately lose games, the first major scandal in American football. |
| 15 december | The Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway, a14.17-kilometre (8.80 mi) long deep-level underground tube railwayconnecting Hammersmith and Finsbury Park, London, opened. |
| 24 december | Reginald A Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over the radio (Mass). |
| 30 december | The All-India Muslim League, a political party in British India That developed into the driving force behind the creation of Pakistan asa Muslim state on the Indian subcontinent, was founded in Dhaka. |
| 22 May | The Wright brothers received a patent from the US for their flying machine. |
| 22 June | Sweden adopted the national flag. |
| 26 June | The first Grand Prix was held. This competition lasted 12 hours. |
| 17 July | Clement Armand Falières was elected President of France. |
| 03 September | India's famous film actor Prithviraj Kapoor was born in Peshawar (now Pakistan). |
| 11 September | The country's national father Mahatma Gandhi, for the first time, called 'Satyagraha', the non-violent movement that started the rights of Indians in South Africa. |
| 16 September | Roald Emundson of Norway discovered the magnetic south pole. |
| 22 November | International radio telecommunications code was adopted, SOS service was introduced for emergencies. |
| 06 August | Prominent freedom fighter Chittaranjan Das and other Congress leaders jointly started the publication of Vande Mataram newspaper. |
| 16 August | An earthquake of 8.6 magnitude struck the South American country of Chile, killing about twenty thousand people. |
| 30 December | The All India Muslim League was established in Dhaka, which later demanded Pakistan. |
| 07 March | Finland got women the right to vote. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 04 September | Max Delbrück / Academic / United States of America |
| 04 May | Charles Exbrayat / Writer / France |
| 06 March | Lou Costello / Actor / United States of America |
| 06 October | Taffy O'Callaghan / Footballer / United Kingdom |
| 08 September | Andrei Kirilenko / Politician / Russia |
| 08 April | Raoul Jobin / Educator / Canada |
| 10 December | Jules Ladoumègue / Runner / France |
| 12 August | Tedd Pierce / Producer / United States of America |
| 15 September | Walter E. Rollins / Writer / United States of America |
| 15 January | Aristotle Onassis / Business Man / Greece |
| 15 July | Rudolf Uhlenhaut / Engineer / United Kingdom |
| 16 January | Diana Wynyard / Actress / United Kingdom |
| 16 July | Vincent Sherman / Actor / United States of America |
| 17 November | Rollie Stiles / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 24 April | William Joyce / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 25 March | Jean Sablon / Actor / France |
| 26 October | Primo Carnera / Actor / Italy |
| 27 May | Buddhadasa / Monk / Thailand |
| 28 March | Dorothy Knowles / Author / United Kingdom |
| 30 November | John Dickson Carr / Author / United States of America |
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 23 July | Chandra Shekhar Azad / Freedom Fighter / India |
| 23 May | Pran Nath Thapar / Soldier / India |
| 03 November | Prithviraj Kapoor / Actor / India |
| 18 September | Kaka Hathrasi / Poet / India |
| 10 October | R. K. Narayan / Author / India |
| 04 August | Yashwant Singh Parmar / Politician / India |
| 15 July | R. S. Mugali / Poet / India |
| 10 January | Panampilli Govinda Menon / Politician / India |
| 30 March | Kodandera Subayya Thimayya / Soldier / India |
| 01 October | S. D. Burman / Singer / India |
| 22 January | Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah / Lawyer / India |
| 23 July | Chandra Shekhar Azad / Activist / India |