1906 facts for kids

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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 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar.

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Events
Births
Hit songs
Movies Released
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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
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)
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

Images for kids

See also

In Spanish: 1906 para niños

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