1906

Events:

   * February 15 - The British Labour Party is organized
   * March 15 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered
   * April 7 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
   * April 18 - Earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San
     Francisco, California. The estimated magnitude of the earthquake is
     7.8.
   * BCG (Bacilli-Calmette-Guerin) immunization for Tuberculosis first
     developed
   * Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior
   * Second Geneva Convention
   * December 24 - Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a
     poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

Births:

   * January 11 - Albert Hofmann, chemist, discoverer of LSD
   * January 14 - William Bendix, actor (+ 1964)
   * January 15 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipowner (+1975)
   * January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author (+ 1936)
   * February 1 - Hildegarde, actress, singer
   * February 2 - Gale Gordon, actor (+ 1995)
   * February 4 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian (+ 1945)
   * February 4 - Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer (+ 1997)
   * February 5 - John Carradine, actor (+ 1988)
   * February 10 - Lon Chaney Jr., actor (+ 1973)
   * February 11 - Denis Barnett, British air chief marshal.
   * February 28 - Bugsy Siegel, gangster (+ 1947)
   * March 6 - Lou Costello, actor, comedian (+ 1959)
   * March 16 - Henny Youngman, comedian (+ 1998)
   * March 19 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official responsible for the execution
     of the holocaust
   * March 20 - Ozzie Nelson, actor, band leader (+ 1975)
   * April 4 - John Cameron Swayze, journalist, television host (+ 1995)
   * April 4 - Bea Benaderet, actress (+ 1968)
   * April 6 - Virginia Hall, American SOE agent, WW II heroine (+ 1982)
   * April 13 - Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in
     literature 1969
   * April 28 - G�del, Austrian/US mathematician
   * May 8 - Roberto Rossellini, direcotr (+ 1977)
   * May 11 - Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (+ 1980)
   * May 19 - Gerd Bucerius, publisher and publicist (+ 1995)
   * May 20 - Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, senior cardinal of the Roman Catholic
     Church (+ 1989)
   * June 27 - Catherine Cookson, author (+ 1998)
   * July 29 - Diana Vreeland, fashion editor (+ 1989)
   * August 7 - Nelson Goodman, philosopher and coiner of the term
     "irrealism"
   * August 27 - Ed Gein, serial killer
   * August 31 - Raymond Sommer, Grand Prix motor racing driver
   * September 4 - Max Delbr�ck, German biologist
   * September 25 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer
   * October 14 - Hannah Arendt, German/US intellectual
   * October 30 - Giuseppe Farina, Italian F1 driver
   * November 3 - Carl Benjamin Boyer, US historian of mathematics
   * November 14 - Louise Brooks, American dancer, actor and writer. (+
     1985)

Deaths:

   * January 29 - King Christian IX of Denmark
   * February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet
   * March 13 - Susan B. Anthony, civil rights and women's suffrage activist
   * April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher
   * May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright
   * September 5 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist

Nobel Prizes:

   * Physics - Sir Joseph John Thomson
   * Chemistry - Henri Moissan
   * Medicine - Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ram�n y Cajal
   * Literature - Giosu� Carducci
   * Peace - Theodore Roosevelt

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