* Bunny Austin ( 1906 – 2000 ), British tennis player

* 1906 – Ed Gein, American serial killer ( d. 1984 )

* 1906 – Vic Dickenson, American trombonist ( d. 1984 )

* 1906 – The all black infantrymen of the U. S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence ; all are later dishonorably discharged.

* 1906 – Miklós Borsos, Hungarian sculptor ( d. 1990 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

Casa Batlló () is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904 – 1906 ; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia ( passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue ), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia ( the " Block of Discord ") in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain.

* 1847 – Hans Auer, Swiss architect ( d. 1906 )

* 1906 – An estimated 8. 2 M < sub > W </ sub > earthquake hits Valparaíso, Chile, killing 3, 886 people.

* 1906 – Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach ( d. 1985 )

* 1906 – Tedd Pierce, American animator, screenwriter, and producer ( d. 1972 )

* 1846 – Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader ( d. 1906 )

* 1906 – Philo Farnsworth, American inventor, invented the Fusor ( d. 1971 )

* 1906 – Friz Freleng, American animator, director, and producer ( d. 1995 )

* 1906 – Jim Smith, English cricketer ( d. 1979 )

* María Teresa, ( 12 November 1882 – 23 September 1912 ), married to Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria on 12 January 1906

1929 portrait of King Alfonso XIIIOn 31 May 1906, at the Royal Monastery of San Geronimo in Madrid, Alfonso married Scottish-born Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( 1887 – 1969 ), a niece of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

* 1906 – The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.

* 1906 – Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest, educator and academic administrator ( d. 1970 )

* 1906 – Cunard Line's is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

In 1906 she was the reigning Duchess of Roxburghe who christened the newest & largest ship then in the world, the Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania.

This Company became the most technically advanced ship building facilities anywhere and built the RMS Mauretania for Cunard which was launched in 1906 and held the Blue Riband as the fastest liner across the Atlantic for 26 years.

* RMS Empress of Britain ( 1906 )

* RMS Empress of Ireland ( 1906 )

Until 1906 he was also leader of the string quartet for the Russian Musical Society ( RMS ).

RMS Mauretania ( 1906 ) | Mauretania ( 1906 )

* RMS Mauretania ( 1906 ), launched in 1906 and remained in service until 1934

Lillian Gertrud Asplund ( October 21, 1906 – May 6, 2006 ) was one of the last three living survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912 ; and also the last survivor with actual memories of the disaster.

He invented the " Löschfunkensender " ( generator of slightly weakened electromagnetic oscillations, used for example, on the RMS Titanic ) during the years 1906 to 1909 and the Wien bridge in 1891.

:* RMS Mauretania ( 1906 ), in service until 1934

Three steamships docked together -- the RMS Empress of France ( 1914 ) | SS Empress of France, the SS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm | SS Empress of India, and RMS Empress of Britain ( 1906 ) | SS Empress of Britain.

The SS Lusitania was a Portuguese twin-screw liner of 5557 tons, built in 1906 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co, and owned by Empreza Nacional De Navegacao, of Lisbon.

Beginning with Reginald Fessenden's audio demonstrations in 1906, it was also the original method used for audio radio transmissions, and remains in use today by many forms of communication —" AM " is often used to refer to the mediumwave broadcast band ( see AM radio ).

* 1906 – the All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India.

In modern popular culture, the portrayal of earthquakes is shaped by the memory of great cities laid waste, such as Kobe in 1995 or San Francisco in 1906.

* George Wilder-Former Hampshire and Sussex cricketer whose name is inscribed on a stone at Emsworth Post Office dated 1906.

The New York Times reported in September 1906 on the rationale for the changes: " The main efforts of the football reformers have been to ' open up the game '— that is to provide for the natural elimination of the so-called mass plays and bring about a game in which speed and real skill shall supersede so far as possible mere brute strength and force of weight.

Another coach sometimes credited with popularizing the overhead spiral pass in 1906 is former Princeton All-American " Bosey " Reiter.

* 1906 – The, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.

It is the successor of BVV ( 1906 ) and Wilhelmina ( 1890 ).

The largest colonial enterprises were in Africa, where the harsh treatment of the Nama and Herero in what is now Namibia in 1906 – 07 led to charges of genocide against the Germans.

A depiction of a young Hel ( center ) being led to the assignment of her realm, while her brother Fenrir is led forward ( left ) and Jörmungandr ( right ) is about to be cast by Odin ( 1906 ) by Lorenz Frølich.

Although majority Hindu and minority Muslim political leaders were able to collaborate closely in their criticism of British policy into the 1920s, British support for a distinct Muslim political organisation, the Muslim League from 1906 and insistence from the 1920s on separate electorates for religious minorities, is seen by many in India as having contributed to Hindu-Muslim discord and the country's eventual Partition.

* 1906 – The flag of Sweden is adopted.

Then there is Samuel Beckett, born in 1906, a writer with roots in the expressionist tradition of modernism, who produced works from the 1930s until the 1980s, including Molloy ( 1951 ), En attendant Godot ( 1953 ), Happy Days ( 1961 ), Rockaby ( 1981 ).

* 1906 – Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.

* 1906 – Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.

* 1906 – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States ( later the National Collegiate Athletic Association ) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.

* 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country.

Built in 1906, it is the largest and probably most well-known memorial to Bismarck worldwide.

For example, Hamburg's memorial, unveiled in 1906, is considered one of the greatest expressions of imperial Germany's Bismarck cult and an important development in the history of German memorial art.

The Rose Period ( 1904 – 1906 ) is characterized by a more cheery style with orange and pink colors, and featuring many circus people, acrobats and harlequins known in France as saltimbanques.

The application date submitted by Caleb Bradham for the second trademark is Saturday, April 15, 1905 with the successful registration date of April 15, 1906, over three years after the original date.