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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

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 10, 1906 – The Courrières mine disaster, Europe’s worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France.
• June 30, 1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
• August 16, 1906 – An estimated 8.2 MW earthquake hits Valparaíso, Chile, killing 3,886 people.
• September 12, 1906 – The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
• September 20, 1906 – Cunard Line’s RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
• October 16, 1906 – The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
• December 10, 1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
• December 15, 1906 – The London Underground’s Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.

Who Were Born On 1906?

• February 7, 1906 – Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov, Russian aircraft designer and engineer, founded the Antonov Aircraft Company (d. 1984)
• March 14, 1906 – Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Turkish composer and educator (d. 1972)
• July 23, 1906 – Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian activist (d. 1931)
• August 18, 1906 – Marcel Carné, French director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• September 30, 1906 – Mireille Hartuch, French singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1996)
• October 10, 1906 – R. K. Narayan, Indian author (d. 2001)
• December 13, 1906 – Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (d. 1968)
• December 19, 1906 – Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)