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Events from the year 1906 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal government

Governors and lieutenant governors
Governors Governor of Alabama: William D. Jelks (Democratic) Governor of Arkansas: Jeff Davis (Democratic) Governor of California: George Pardee (Republican) Governor of Colorado: Jesse Fuller McDonald (Republican) Governor of Connecticut: Henry Roberts (Republican) Governor of Delaware: Preston Lea (Republican) Governor of Florida: Napoleon B. Broward (Democratic) Governor of Georgia: Joseph M. Terrell (Democratic) Governor of Idaho: Frank R. Gooding (Republican) Governor of Illinois: Charles S. Deneen (Republican) Governor of Indiana: J. Frank Hanly (Republican) Governor of Iowa: Albert B. Cummins (Republican) Governor of Kansas: Edward W. Hoch (Republican) Governor of Kentucky: J. C. W. Beckham (Democratic) Governor of Louisiana: Newton Crain Blanchard (Democratic) Governor of Maine: William T. Cobb (Republican) Governor of Maryland: Edwin Warfield (Democratic) Governor of Massachusetts: William L. Douglas (Democratic) (until January 4), Curtis Guild, Jr. (Republican) (starting January 4) Governor of Michigan: Fred M. Warner (Republican) Governor of Minnesota: John A. Johnson (Democratic) Governor of Mississippi: James K. Vardaman (Democratic) Governor of Missouri: Joseph W. Folk (Democratic) Governor of Montana: Joseph Toole (Democratic) Governor of Nebraska: John H. Mickey (Republican) Governor of Nevada: John Sparks (Silver) Governor of New Hampshire: John McLane (Republican) Governor of New Jersey: Edward C. Stokes (Republican) Governor of New York: Frank W. Higgins (Republican) (until end of December 31) Governor of North Carolina: Robert Broadnax Glenn (Democratic) Governor of North Dakota: Elmore Y. Sarles (Republican) Governor of Ohio: until January 8: Myron T. Herrick (Republican) January 8-June 18: John M. Pattison (Democratic) starting June 18: Andrew L. Harris (Republican) Governor of Oregon: George Chamberlain (Democratic) Governor of Pennsylvania: Samuel W. Pennypacker (Republican) Governor of Rhode Island: George H. Utter (Republican) Governor of South Carolina: Duncan Clinch Heyward (Democratic) Governor of South Dakota: Samuel H. Elrod (Republican) Governor of Tennessee: John I. Cox (Democratic) Governor of Texas: S. W. T. Lanham (Democratic) Governor of Utah: John Christopher Cutler (Republican) Governor of Vermont: Charles J. Bell (Republican) (until October 3), Fletcher D. Proctor (Republican) (starting October 3) Governor of Virginia: Andrew Jackson Montague (Democratic) (until February 1), Claude A. Swanson (Democratic) (starting February 10) Governor of Washington: Albert E. Mead (Republican) Governor of West Virginia: William M. O. Dawson (Republican) Governor of Wisconsin: Robert M. La Follette, Sr. (Republican) (until January 1), James O. Davidson (Republican) (starting January 1) Governor of Wyoming: Bryant B. Brooks (Republican) Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: Russell M. Cunningham (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of California: Alden Anderson (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Fred W. Parks (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Rollin S. Woodruff (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: Isaac T. Parker (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: Burpee L. Steeves (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Lawrence Sherman (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Hugh T. Miller (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: John Herriott (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: David J. Hanna (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: William P. Thorne (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Jared Y. Sanders, Sr. (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Curtis Guild, Jr. (Republican) (until January 4), Eben Sumner Draper (Republican) (starting January 4) Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Alexander Maitland (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Ray W. Jones (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: John Prentiss Carter (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: John C. McKinley (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Montana: Edwin L. Norris (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Edmund G. McGilton (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Lemuel Allen (political party unknown) Lieutenant Governor of New York: until December 5: Matthew Linn Bruce (Republican) December 5 to end of December 31: John Raines (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Francis D. Winston (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: David Bartlett (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: until January 8: Warren G. Harding (Republican) January 8-June 18: Andrew L. Harris (Republican) starting June 18: vacant Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: William M. Brown (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Frederick Jackson (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: John Sloan (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: John E. McDougall (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Ernest Rice (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Texas: George D. Neal (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Charles H. Stearns (Republican) (until October 4), George H. Prouty (Republican) (starting October 4) Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Joseph Edward Willard (Democratic) (until February 1), James Taylor Ellyson (Democratic) (starting February 1) Lieutenant Governor of Washington: Charles E. Coon (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: James O. Davidson (Republican)

Events

January–March

January 8 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 21 people.
February 26 – Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a novel depicting the life of a contemporary immigrant family in Chicago working in the meat packing industry.
March 4 – Native American tribal governments are terminated in Indian Territory, a prerequisite for creating the U.S. state of Oklahoma in 1907.

April–June

April 18: 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

April 5 – The Maryland General Assembly authorises the erection of the Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Baltimore.
April 14 – The first service is held at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles by W. J. Seymour, in a series later known as the Azusa Street Revival, an event which launches the Pentecostal movement in Christianity.
April 18 – The 1906 San Francisco earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3,000 people, with 225,000–300,000 left homeless, and $350,000,000 in damages.
May 27 – The first inmates are moved to the Culion leper colony by the American Insular Government of the Philippine Islands.
June – Josephine Terranova is acquitted by a New York City jury of the murder of abusive relatives.^[1]
June 6 – Durham and Southern Railway operates its first revenue train, Bonsal to Durham, North Carolina.
June 8 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the president to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
June 18 – The Lake County Times (later The Times of Northwest Indiana) begins publication.
June 25 – Harry K. Thaw shoots architect Stanford White at the roof garden theatre of Madison Square Garden (designed by White) in New York City.
June 28 – Osage Allotment Act allocates land to members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma.
June 29 – Mesa Verde is declared a National Park.
June 30 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.

July–September

September 5: The first legal forward pass in an American football.

July 11 – Murder of Grace Brown, a factory worker whose killing causes a nationwide sensation.
July 14 – Gary, Indiana is founded by the United States Steel Corporation.
August 23 – Unable to control a rebellion in the newly formed Cuban Republic, President Tomás Estrada Palma requests U.S. intervention.
September 5 – Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
September 22 – Atlanta race riot: Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia result in 27 people killed and the Black-owned business district severely damaged.
September 24 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower, Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
September 26 – The first concert of the Telharmonium, the first music synthesizer, is presented at Telharmonic Hall, Broadway at 39th St., New York City.
September 30 – The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team, piloting the balloon United States, lands in Fylingdales, Yorkshire, England, UK.

October–December

October 1 – The Madeira School, a private boarding school for girls, opens with 28 students attending classes in two buildings on 19th Street, just off Dupont Circle in downtown Washington, D.C.
October 11 – The San Francisco public school board sparks a United States diplomatic crisis with Japan, by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
October 14 – The Chicago White Sox win their First World Series by defeating their crosstown rival Chicago Cubs 4 games to 2 at South Side Park (III)
November 6 – B. B. Comer is elected the 33rd governor of Alabama defeating Asa E. Stratton.
November 9 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt leaves for a trip to Panama to inspect the construction progress of the Panama Canal (the first time a sitting president of the United States makes an official trip outside of the United States).
December 4 – Alpha Phi Alpha, the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter Fraternity established for African Americans, is founded at Cornell University.
December 8 – The Petrified Forest, Arizona is designated a National Monument.
December 10 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating peace in the Russo-Japanese War (1905).

Undated

The muffuletta sandwich is invented in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Ongoing

Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
Black Patch Tobacco Wars (1904–1909)^[2]

Births

January–February

January 7
- Red Allen, trumpet player (died 1967)
- Bobbi Trout, pilot (died 2003)
January 14 – William Bendix, actor (died 1964)
January 22 – Robert E. Howard, pulp fiction writer (suicide 1936)
February 4 – Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer (died 1997)
February 10
- Lon Chaney Jr., actor (died 1973)
- Erik Rhodes, actor (died 1990)
February 17 – Elizabeth M. Ramsey research physician (died 1993)
February 20 – John Kenley, theatrical producer (died 2009)^[3]
February 28 – Bugsy Siegel, gangster (killed 1947)

March–April

March 4 – Charles Rudolph Walgreen Jr., businessman (died 2007)
March 6 – Lou Costello, actor and comedian, half of Abbott & Costello team (died 1959)
March 20 – Ozzie Nelson, actor and band leader (died 1975)
March 26 – H. Radclyffe Roberts, entomologist and museum administrator (died 1982)
April 4 – John Cameron Swayze, journalist (died 1995)
April 22 – Eddie Albert, actor (died 2005)
April 24 – William Joyce, fascist propagandist (executed 1946 in the United Kingdom)
April 25 – William J. Brennan, Supreme Court Justice (died 1997)

May–June

May 3 – Mary Astor, actress and writer (died 1987)
May 11
- Jacqueline Cochran, aviator (died 1980)
- Ethel Weed, promoter of women's rights in Japan (died 1975)
- Richard Arvin Overton, American war veteran (WWII) ( died 2018)
May 12 – Maurice Ewing, geophysicist and oceanographer (died 1974)
May 19 – Bruce Bennett, athlete and actor (died 2007)^[4]
May 23 – Allan Scott, screenwriter (died 1995)
May 28 – Phil Regan, actor (died 1996)
June 3 – Josephine Baker, actress (died 1975 in France)
June 19 – Earl W. Bascom, rodeo pioneer, artist, inventor (died 1995)
June 22 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author and aviator (died 2001)
June 26 – Viktor Schreckengost, industrial designer (died 2008)

July–August

July 1 – Estée Lauder, cosmetics entrepreneur (died 2004)
July 7 – Satchel Paige, baseball player (died 1982)
July 18 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-born American academic and politician, U.S. Senator from California from 1977 to 1983 (died 1992)
August 6 – Vic Dickenson, trombonist (died 1984)
August 9 – Robert L. Surtees, cinematographer (died 1985)
August 12 – Tedd Pierce, animator (died 1972)
August 17 – Hazel Bishop, chemist and inventor of "no-smear" lipstick (died 1998)
August 19 – Philo Farnsworth, American inventor and television pioneer (died 1971)
August 27 – Ed Gein, serial killer (died 1984)

September–October

September 5 – Shimon Agranat, American-born president of the Supreme Court of Israel (died 1992)
September 17
- Raymond D. Mindlin, mechanician (died 1987)
- Edgar Wayburn, environmentalist (died 2010)^[5]
September 21 – Henry Beachell, plant breeder (died 2006)^[6]
September 27 – Alma Vessells John, nurse, broadcast personality and civil rights activist (died 1986)
October 6 – Janet Gaynor, actress (died 1984)
October 7 – James E. Webb, government administrator (died 1992)
October 15
- Hiram Fong, businessman and U.S. Senator from Hawaii from 1959 to 1977 (died 2004)
- Alicia Patterson, newspaper editor (died 1963)
October 23 – Gertrude Ederle, swimmer (died 2003)
October 27 – Earle Cabell, politician (died 1975)

November–December

November 1 – Johnny Indrisano, boxer and actor (died 1968)
November 5 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, astronomer (died 2004)
November 14 – Louise Brooks, actress (died 1985)
November 15 – Curtis LeMay, U.S.A.F. general, vice-presidential candidate (died 1990)
November 18 – George Wald, scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)
December 9 – Grace Hopper, computer scientist and naval officer (died 1992)
December 11 – Herman Welker, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1951 to 1957 (died 1957)
December 27 – Oscar Levant, pianist, composer, author, comedian and actor (died 1972)

Deaths

January 25
- John S. Harris, United States Senator from Louisiana from 1868 till 1871 (born 1825)
- Joseph Wheeler, U.S. Army general and politician (born 1836)
February 9 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet and publisher (born 1872)
February 18 – John B. Stetson, hat manufacturer and inventor of the cowboy hat (born 1830)
February 27 – Samuel Pierpont Langley, astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer (born 1834)
March 4 – John Schofield, 28th United States Secretary of War and Commanding General of the United States Army (born 1831)
March 13 – Susan B. Anthony, civil rights and women's suffrage activist (born 1820)
April 11
- James Anthony Bailey, circus ringmaster (born 1847)
- Francis Pharcellus Church, editor and publisher (born 1839)
April 24 – Mary Hunt, temperance activist (born 1830)
April 25 – John Knowles Paine, composer (born 1839)
May 12 – Gabriel C. Wharton, civil engineer and Confederate general (born 1824)
May 14 – Carl Schurz, German-born statesman (born 1829)
May 15 – John K. Bucklyn, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1834)
June 17 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury, chess champion (born 1872)
June 25 – Stanford White, architect (born 1853)
September 20 – Robert R. Hitt, 13th Assistant Secretary of State (born 1834)
September 21 – Samuel Arnold, conspirator involved in the plot to kidnap U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 (born 1834)
October 6 – Buck Ewing, American baseball player New York Giants and MLB Hall of Famer (born 1859)
October 9 – Joseph Glidden, inventor of barbed wire (born 1813)
October 16 – Varina Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States of America (born 1826)
October 17 – James D. Walker, United States Senator from Arkansas from 1879 till 1885 (born 1830)
November 4 – John H. Ketcham, politician (born 1832)
November 23 – Willard Warner, United States Senator from Alabama from 1868 till 1871 (born 1826)
December 12 – Arthur Brown, United States Senator from Utah from 1896 till 1897 (born 1843)
December 22 – Richard S. Rust, abolitionist (born 1815)
December 30 – Thomas M. Bowen, United States Senator from Colorado from 1883 till 1889 (born 1835)
December 31 – Donelson Caffery, United States Senator from Louisiana from 1892 till 1901 (born 1835)