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  • South Africa
    1906
    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

    Abstain From Sexual Relations

    South Africa
    1906

    Along with many other texts, Gandhi studied Bhagavad Gita while in South Africa. This Hindu scripture discusses jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, and karma yoga along with virtues such as non-violence, patience, integrity, lack of hypocrisy, self-restraint and abstinence. Gandhi began experiments with these, and in 1906 at age 37, although married and a father, he vowed to abstain from sexual relations.




  • Palestine
    1906
    David Ben-Gurion

    Immigrated

    Palestine
    1906

    In 1906 he immigrated to Ottoman Palestine.




  • U.S.
    1906
    The Wright brothers

    No flights made

    U.S.
    1906

    The Wright brothers made no flights at all in 1906 and 1907. They spent the time attempting to persuade the U.S. and European governments that they had invented a successful flying machine and were prepared to negotiate a contract to sell such machines. They also experimented with a pontoon and engine setup on the Miami River (Ohio) in hopes of flying from the water. These experiments proved unsuccessful.




  • China
    1906
    Xinhai Revolution

    The abolition of The Imperial Examinations

    China
    1906

    In 1906, after the abolition of the imperial examinations, the Qing government established many new schools and encouraged students to study abroad. Many young people attended the new schools or went abroad to study in places like Japan.




  • New York, U.S.
    1906
    Statue of Liberty

    Color Transformation

    New York, U.S.
    1906

    The statue rapidly became a landmark. Originally, it was a dull copper color, but shortly after 1900 a green patina, also called verdigris, caused by the oxidation of the copper skin, began to spread. As early as 1902 it was mentioned in the press; by 1906 it had entirely covered the statue. Believing that the patina was evidence of corrosion, Congress authorized US$62,800 (equivalent to $1,787,000 in 2019) for various repairs, and to paint the statue both inside and out. There was a considerable public protest against the proposed exterior painting. The Army Corps of Engineers studied the patina for any ill effects to the statue and concluded that it protected the skin, "softened the outlines of the Statue, and made it beautiful." The statue was painted only on the inside. The Corps of Engineers also installed an elevator to take visitors from the base to the top of the pedestal.




  • New York, U.S.
    1906
    Statue of Liberty

    Mother of Exiles

    New York, U.S.
    1906

    Wars and other upheavals in Europe prompted large-scale emigration to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century; many entered through New York and saw the statue not as a symbol of enlightenment, as Bartholdi had intended, but as a sign of welcome to their new home. The association with immigration only became stronger when an immigrant processing station was opened on nearby Ellis Island. This view was consistent with Lazarus's vision in her sonnet—she described the statue as "Mother of Exiles"—but her work had become obscure. In 1903, the sonnet was engraved on a plaque that was affixed to the base of the statue.




  • Mexico City, Mexico
    1906
    Mexican Revolution

    The Office of vice President was Revived

    Mexico City, Mexico
    1906

    In 1906, the office of vice president was revived, with Díaz choosing his close ally Ramón Corral from among his Científico advisers to serve in the post.


  • Massachusetts, U.S.
    1906
    Incandescent light bulb

    William D. Coolidge developed a method of making "ductile Tungsten" from Sintered Tungsten

    Massachusetts, U.S.
    1906

    In 1906, William D. Coolidge developed a method of making "ductile tungsten" from sintered tungsten which could be made into filaments while working for General Electric Company. By 1911 General Electric began selling incandescent light bulbs with ductile tungsten wire.


  • U.S.
    Tuesday Jan 2, 1906
    Willis Carrier

    Apparatus for Treating Air

    U.S.
    Tuesday Jan 2, 1906

    On January 2, 1906, Carrier was granted U.S. Patent 808,897 for an Apparatus for Treating Air, the world's first spray-type air conditioning equipment. It was designed to humidify or dehumidify air, heating water for the first function and cooling it for the second.


  • Saint Petersburg, Russia
    Tuesday Jan 23, 1906
    Igor Stravinsky

    1st Marriage

    Saint Petersburg, Russia
    Tuesday Jan 23, 1906

    In 1905, Stravinsky was engaged to his cousin Katherine Gavrylivna Nosenko (called "Katya"), whom he had known since early childhood. In spite of the Orthodox Church's opposition to marriage between first cousins, the couple married on 23 January 1906.


  • United Kingdom
    Jan, 1906
    Winston Churchill

    Liberals won general election in January 1906

    United Kingdom
    Jan, 1906

    Hoping to secure a working majority in the House of Commons, Campbell-Bannerman called a general election in January 1906, which the Liberals won. Churchill won the Manchester North West seat.


  • Paris, France
    1906
    Mona Lisa

    Louvre restorer Eugène Denizard performed watercolour retouches

    Paris, France
    1906

    In 1906, Louvre restorer Eugène Denizard performed watercolour retouches on areas of the paint layer disturbed by the crack in the panel. Denizard also retouched the edges of the picture with varnish, to mask areas that had been covered initially by an older frame.


  • Russian Empire
    Apr, 1906
    1905 Russian Revolution

    More than 14,000 people had been executed and 75,000 imprisoned

    Russian Empire
    Apr, 1906

    According to figures presented in the Duma by Professor Maksim Kovalevsky, by April 1906, more than 14,000 people had been executed and 75,000 imprisoned.


  • New York, U.S.
    Apr, 1906
    Lucky Luciano

    Emigrated to the U.S.

    New York, U.S.
    Apr, 1906

    In April 1906, when Luciano was nine years old, the family emigrated to the United States. They settled in New York City in the borough of Manhattan on its Lower East Side, a popular destination for Italian immigrants.


  • Saint Petersburg, Russia
    Apr, 1906
    Igor Stravinsky

    Receiving a Half-Course Diploma

    Saint Petersburg, Russia
    Apr, 1906

    The university was closed for two months in 1905 in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday, Stravinsky was prevented from taking his final law examinations and later received a half-course diploma in April 1906.


  • Rochester, New York, U.S.
    Wednesday Apr 18, 1906
    Xerox

    Haloid Photographic Company

    Rochester, New York, U.S.
    Wednesday Apr 18, 1906

    Xerox was founded in 1906 in Rochester, New York, as The Haloid Photographic Company. It manufactured photographic paper and equipment.


  • Paris, France
    Thursday Apr 19, 1906
    Marie Curie

    Pierre Curie's Death

    Paris, France
    Thursday Apr 19, 1906

    On 19 April 1906, Pierre Curie was killed in a road accident. Walking across the Rue Dauphine in heavy rain, he was struck by a horse-drawn vehicle and fell under its wheels, causing his skull to fracture. Curie was devastated by her husband's death.


  • Russian Empire
    Sunday May 6, 1906
    1905 Russian Revolution

    The Russian Constitution of 1906

    Russian Empire
    Sunday May 6, 1906

    The Russian Constitution of 1906, Created 6 May [O.S. 23 April] 1906, also known as the Fundamental Laws, set up a multiparty system and a limited constitutional monarchy. The revolutionaries were quelled and satisfied with the reforms, but it was not enough to prevent the 1917 revolution that would later topple the Tsar's regime.


  • Paris, France
    Sunday May 13, 1906
    Marie Curie

    The First Woman To become a Professor at The University of Paris

    Paris, France
    Sunday May 13, 1906

    On 13 May 1906 the physics department of the University of Paris decided to retain the chair that had been created for her late husband and to offer it to Marie. She accepted it, hoping to create a world-class laboratory as a tribute to her husband Pierre. She was the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris.


  • U.S.
    Tuesday May 22, 1906
    The Wright brothers

    New and useful Improvements in Flying Machines

    U.S.
    Tuesday May 22, 1906

    The Wright brothers wrote their 1903 patent application themselves, but it was rejected. In January 1904 they hired Ohio patent attorney Henry Toulmin, and on May 22, 1906, they were granted U.S. Patent 821393 for "new and useful Improvements in Flying Machines".


  • Cananea, Sonora, Mexico
    Friday Jun 1, 1906
    Mexican Revolution

    The 1906 Cananea Strike

    Cananea, Sonora, Mexico
    Friday Jun 1, 1906

    Mexican copper miners in the northern state of Sonora took action in the 1906 Cananea strike.


  • Greenland
    Sunday Jun 24, 1906
    Denmark expedition

    Danmark ship started the expedition

    Greenland
    Sunday Jun 24, 1906

    Danmark left Copenhagen 24 June 1906 and left for Greenland on 2 July after a short stop in Frederikshavn.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    1906
    Library of Congress

    Purchase of G. V. Yudin's eighty-thousand volume Russian library

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    1906

    The 1906 purchase of G. V. Yudin's eighty-thousand volume Russian library.


  • Senaki, Tiflis Governorate, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire (Now Georgia)
    Jul, 1906
    Joseph Stalin

    Marriage

    Senaki, Tiflis Governorate, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire (Now Georgia)
    Jul, 1906

    Stalin married Kato Svanidze in a church ceremony at Senaki in July 1906.


  • France
    Jul, 1906
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle worked harder at school

    France
    Jul, 1906

    In July 1906 he worked harder at school as he focused on winning a place to train as an army officer at the military academy, Saint-Cyr.


  • Raigad Fort, Maratha Empire (Present Day India)
    1906
    Waghya

    A memorial was built

    Raigad Fort, Maratha Empire (Present Day India)
    1906

    In memory of Waghya, a memorial was built next to Chhatrapati Shivaji's samadhi at Raigad Fort with a donation by Indore’s Prince Tukoji Holkar in 1906, who gave ₹5,000 (US$70) towards the dog's statue.


  • Stockholm, Sweden
    1906
    Dmitri Mendeleev

    The lost Nobel

    Stockholm, Sweden
    1906

    In 1906, the Nobel Committee for Chemistry recommended to the Swedish Academy, at which Mendeleev was a member, to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1906 to Mendeleev for his discovery of the periodic system. The Chemistry Section of the Swedish Academy supported this recommendation. The Academy was then supposed to approve the Committee's choice, as it has done in almost every case. Unexpectedly, at the full meeting of the Academy, some members of the committee pressed for the rejection of Mendeleev, arguing that the periodic system was too old to acknowledge its discovery in 1906.


  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    1906
    Nikola Tesla

    Tesla opened offices

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    1906

    After Wardenclyffe closed, Tesla continued to write to Morgan; after "the great man" died, Tesla wrote to Morgan's son Jack, trying to get further funding for the project. In 1906, Tesla opened offices at 165 Broadway in Manhattan, trying to raise further funds by developing and marketing his patents.


  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    1906
    Nikola Tesla

    Tesla demonstrated a 200 horsepower (150 kilowatts) 16,000 rpm bladeless turbine

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    1906

    On his 50th birthday, in 1906, Tesla demonstrated a 200 horsepower (150 kilowatts) 16,000 rpm bladeless turbine. During 1910–1911, at the Waterside Power Station in New York, several of his bladeless turbine engines were tested at 100–5,000 hp.


  • Russian Empire
    Tuesday Jul 24, 1906
    1905 Russian Revolution

    The Commander of the Black Sea Fleet killed

    Russian Empire
    Tuesday Jul 24, 1906

    Admiral Chukhnin the commander of the Black Sea Fleet killed 24 July [O.S. 11 July] 1906.


  • Greenland
    Aug, 1906
    Denmark expedition

    Denmark ship established a base in Danmarkshavn

    Greenland
    Aug, 1906

    The expedition travelled to Greenland aboard the Danmark, reaching a sheltered place in southern Germania Land in August 1906 and establishing its main base there, Danmarkshavn, which was named after the ship.


  • United Kingdom
    1906
    X-ray

    X-ray spectrum

    United Kingdom
    1906

    In about 1906, the physicist Charles Barkla discovered that X-rays could be scattered by gases, and that each element had a characteristic X-ray spectrum. He won the 1917 Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery.


  • Helsinki, Finland, Russian Empire (Now Finland)
    Sunday Aug 12, 1906
    1905 Russian Revolution

    Russian artillerymen and military engineers rose in revolt in the fortress of Sveaborg

    Helsinki, Finland, Russian Empire (Now Finland)
    Sunday Aug 12, 1906

    On 12 August [O.S. 30 July] 1906, Russian artillerymen and military engineers rose in revolt in the fortress of Sveaborg (later called Suomenlinna), Helsinki. The Finnish Red Guards supported the Sveaborg Rebellion with a general strike, but the mutiny was quelled within 60 hours by loyal troops and ships of the Baltic Fleet.


  • U.S.
    1906
    Elizabeth Blackwell

    Last visit to U.S.

    U.S.
    1906

    After this publication, Blackwell slowly relinquished her public reform presence, and spent more time traveling. She visited the United States in 1906 and took her first and last car ride. Blackwell's old age was beginning to limit her activities.


  • Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, U.S.
    Aug, 1906
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    The Niagarites held a second conference

    Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, U.S.
    Aug, 1906

    The Niagarites held a second conference in August 1906, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of abolitionist John Brown's birth, at the West Virginia site of Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.


  • U.S.
    1906
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    President Teddy Roosevelt dishonorably discharged 167 black soldiers

    U.S.
    1906

    President Teddy Roosevelt dishonorably discharged 167 black soldiers because they were accused of crimes as a result of the Brownsville Affair. Many of the discharged soldiers had served for 20 years and were near retirement.


  • Italy
    Sep, 1906
    Benito Mussolini

    Mussolini served for two years in the military

    Italy
    Sep, 1906

    After serving for two years in the military (from January 1905 until September 1906), he returned to teaching.


  • Johannesburg, South Africa
    Tuesday Sep 11, 1906
    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

    The mass protest meeting

    Johannesburg, South Africa
    Tuesday Sep 11, 1906

    In 1906, the Transvaal government promulgated a new Act compelling registration of the colony's Indian and Chinese populations. At a mass protest meeting held in Johannesburg on 11 September that year, Gandhi urged Indians to defy the new law and to suffer the punishments for doing so.


  • Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony (Present day Saxony state, Germany)
    1906
    Gustav Stresemann

    Dresden town council

    Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony (Present day Saxony state, Germany)
    1906

    In 1906 Gustav was elected to the Dresden town council. Though he had initially worked in trade associations, Stresemann soon became a leader of the National Liberal Party in Saxony.


  • Osaka, Japan
    Sep, 1906
    Yasunari Kawabata

    Grandmother's Death

    Osaka, Japan
    Sep, 1906

    In September 1906, Kawabata's grandmother died when Yasunari was seven.


  • Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
    Saturday Sep 22, 1906
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Atlanta race riot

    Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
    Saturday Sep 22, 1906

    In September, riots broke out in Atlanta, precipitated by unfounded allegations of black men assaulting white women. This was a catalyst for racial tensions based on a job shortage and employers playing black workers against white workers. Ten thousand whites rampaged through Atlanta, beating every black person they could find, resulting in over 25 deaths.


  • U.S.
    1906
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Du Bois urged blacks to withdraw their support from the Republican Party

    U.S.
    1906

    In the aftermath of the 1906 violence, Du Bois urged blacks to withdraw their support from the Republican Party, because Republicans Roosevelt and William Howard Taft did not sufficiently support blacks. Most African Americans had been loyal to the Republican Party since the time of Abraham Lincoln.


  • Greenland
    Oct, 1906
    Denmark expedition

    Northbound sled journeys started

    Greenland
    Oct, 1906

    Northbound sled journeys began in autumn 1906 in order to lay depots along the route that the two groups of the long northern explorations would take in the spring of the following year.


  • Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
    Sunday Dec 16, 1906
    Hot Dog

    Dorgan's earliest usage of hot dog

    Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
    Sunday Dec 16, 1906

    However, Dorgan's earliest usage of hot dog was not in reference to a baseball game at the Polo Grounds, but to a bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, in The New York Evening Journal December 12, 1906, by which time the term hot dog in reference to sausage was already in use. In addition, no copy of the apocryphal cartoon has ever been found.


  • New York, U.S.
    1906
    Russell Bufalino

    Immigration

    New York, U.S.
    1906

    Bufalino immigrated with his family to the United States through the Port of New York in 1906.


  • Tver, Russian Empire
    Saturday Dec 22, 1906
    1905 Russian Revolution

    Aleksey Ignatyev killed

    Tver, Russian Empire
    Saturday Dec 22, 1906

    Aleksey Ignatyev killed 22 December [O.S. 9 December] 1906.


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