This Year in History:
1906
Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
Union leaders Bill Haywood, Charles Moyer and George Pettibone are taken into custody by Idaho authorities and the Pinkerton Detective Agency. They are put on a special train in Denver,…
A devastating mine disaster kills over 1,000 workers in Courrieres, France, on March 10, 1906. An underground fire sparked a massive explosion that virtually destroyed a vast maze of mines.…
A powerful earthquake and a full day of aftershocks rock Taiwan on this day in 1906, killing over 1,200 people. This terrifying day of tremors destroyed several towns and caused…
A devastating earthquake begins to shake the city of San Francisco in the morning hours of this day in 1906. The first of two vicious tremors shook San Francisco at…
On April 18, 1906, at 5:13 a.m., an earthquake estimated at close to 8.0 on the Richter scale strikes San Francisco, California, killing an estimated 3,000 people as it topples…
“You ask me to say what I saw and what I did during the terrible days which witnessed the destruction of San Francisco? Well, there have been many accounts of…
On this day in 1906, Terence Hanbury White is born in Bombay, India, to English parents employed by the British civil service. White attended Cambridge, where he published a book…
Writer and pilot Anne Morrow Lindbergh is born on this day in 1906 in Englewood, New Jersey. Lindbergh attended Smith College, where her writing won several coveted literary awards. At…
On the afternoon of September 22, 1906, Atlanta papers report four separate assaults on white women by Black men, none of which are ever substantiated by hard evidence. Inflamed by…
On October 16, 1906, Wilhelm Voigt, a 57‑year‑old German shoemaker, impersonates an army officer and leads an entire squad of soldiers to help him steal 4,000 marks. Voigt, who had…
On November 8, 1906, President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt embarks on a 17‑day trip to Panama and Puerto Rico, becoming the first president to make an official diplomatic tour outside of…
On the first foreign trip by a U.S. president, President Theodore Roosevelt departs the United States for Panama aboard the battleship Louisiana. The visit came three years after Roosevelt gave…
