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1906 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2029. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1906 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1906
- January 8, 1906 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
- January 25, 1906 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
- March 22, 1906 – The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris
- April 8, 1906 – Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, dies.
- June 26, 1906 – The first Grand Prix motor racing event held.
- September 20, 1906 – Cunard Line’s RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
- September 30, 1906 – The Royal Galician Academy, Galician language’s biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
- October 16, 1906 – The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
- October 23, 1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France.
- November 24, 1906 – A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the “Ohio League” Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.
Who Were Born On 1906?
- January 12, 1906 – Emmanuel Levinas, Lithuanian-French historian, philosopher, and academic (d. 1995)
- March 24, 1906 – Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Ukrainian-Russian singer (d. 1984)
- March 31, 1906 – Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
- May 7, 1906 – Eric Krenz, American discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1931)
- May 29, 1906 – T. H. White, Indian-English author (d. 1964)
- June 26, 1906 – Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (Lecuona Cuban Boys) (d. 1974)
- June 27, 1906 – Catherine Cookson, English author and philanthropist (d. 1998)
- August 5, 1906 – Joan Hickson, English actress (d. 1998)
- September 8, 1906 – Andrei Kirilenko, Russian engineer and politician (d. 1990)
- September 17, 1906 – Edgar Wayburn, American physician and environmentalist (d. 2010)