* 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 )

In 1906, another Nesbit lover, famed architect Stanford White, was murdered by Nesbit's husband, Pittsburgh millionaire Harry K. Thaw.

He became a baseball pitcher, and aside from a single game played for the Saint Louis Cardinals in 1906, he played his entire Major League career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and was known for his location control.

While the first players known to be paid to play football are believed to have played for club teams in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, perhaps the first great professional football rivalry was between the Massillon Tigers and Canton Bulldogs from 1903 to 1906 and 1915 to 1919.

* Historic Pittsburgh Map Collections: 1906 – Northern Vicinity of Pittsburgh: Plate 3

From 1906 to 1977, West View was home to one of the most remembered Pittsburgh amusement parks, West View Park.

The company was bought by the Philadelphia Company in 1906, later becoming part of the Pittsburgh Railway Company, linking through to Pittsburgh as part of their interurban service in 1909.

The Allenport & Roscoe Street Railway was formed in 1903 and was purchased by Pittsburgh Railways to form part of their interurban line to Pittsburgh in 1906.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1906 to an Orthodox Jewish family from Russia, Levant moved to New York in 1922, following the death of his father, Max.

Over a 13-year career, Willis played for three teams, the Boston Beaneaters ( 1898 – 1905 ), Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1906 – 1909 ) and St. Louis Cardinals ( 1910 ), compiling a 249-205 record with a 2. 63 ERA.

When he changed teams to the Pittsburgh Pirates for 1906, whose offense had a combined batting average of. 256 over the four years Willis was with the team, Willis compiled a record of 88-46.

He attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia until 1906, when he transferred to the University of Pittsburgh Law School to be closer to home.

Charles Benjamin " Babe " Adams ( May 18, 1882 – July 27, 1968 ) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1906 to 1926 who spent nearly his entire career with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

An Atlas car was built in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1906 – 1907 ; another came from Springfield, Massachusetts from 1907-1911 ( and became the Atlas-Knight for 1912 – 1913 ); and an Atlas Motor Buggy was built in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1909.

The Atlas Automobile Company was established on College Avenue in the East End of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in late 1906 in a " fireproof garage.

The absorption of Allegheny began in 1906, was effected in 1907, authorized by the U. S. Supreme Court in a landmark decision Hunter v. City of Pittsburgh in 1907, and finally approved by the United States Government in 1911.

Eros Bolivar " Cy " Barger ( May 18, 1885 – September 23, 1964 ) was a right-handed starting pitcher and left-handed batter who played in the American League for the New York Highlanders ( 1906 – 07 ); in the National League with the Brooklyn teams Superbas ( 1910 ) and Dodgers ( 1911 – 12 ), and for the Pittsburgh Rebels ( 1914 – 15 ) in the Federal League.

The chain was founded in 1906 in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, by George Clinton Murphy.

Among the more accomplished Taftville residents was Ned ( Edward ) Hanlon who managed the Pittsburgh Alleghenys ( 1889 ), Pittsburgh Burghers ( 1890 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 1892 – 1898 ), Brooklyn Superbas ( 1899 – 1905 ), and the Cincinnati Reds ( 1906 – 1907 ).

He moved to Pittsburgh to become a professional with the Pittsburgh Professionals in 1906, playing three seasons in Pittsburgh before returning to Canada with the Brantford Indians of the Ontario Professional Hockey League ( OPHL ) where he played two seasons.

Beginning in 1906, Pennsylvania conservationist Major Israel McCreight of Du Bois, Pennsylvania argued that President Theodore Roosevelt ’ s conservation speeches were limited to businessmen in the lumber industry and recommended a campaign of youth education and a national policy on conservation education.

The IWW first attracted attention in Goldfield, Nevada in 1906 and during the Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909 at McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.

He attended the Horace Mann School upon his return to New York City and after having passed a special examination, he was admitted in 1902 to the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1906.

In 1906, the Pennsylvania Railroad opened a new facility in Enola, across the river from Harrisburg, which decreased the significance of Columbia ’ s railroad.

* William Orlando Smith ( 1859 – 1932 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania ( 1903 – 1906 )

Wyomissing is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States, established on July 2, 1906.

The Connellsville Extension of the Western Maryland Railroad was built west from Cumberland, Maryland, to Connellsville, Pennsylvania, beginning around 1906 and was completed in 1912.

In addition, a branch line of the Pennsylvania Railroad connected the borough to Scottdale, and West Penn Railways ( an interurban trolley ) served Mount Pleasant from 1906 to 1952.

Thomas and his brother John Raine moved there from Pennsylvania in 1906 to exploit one of the last large stands of virgin hardwoods in the eastern United states.

On October 19, 1906, Taylor was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Pennsylvania.

He received gold medals from Pope Leo XII, the University of Pennsylvania, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and was knighted in 1906.

The Pennsylvania Railroad in 1906 introduced battery powered platform trucks for moving luggage at their Altoona, Pennsylvania train station.

* In 1906 a portrait of Benjamin Chew was dedicated, honoring his role as Chief Justice, and installed in the Pennsylvania State Capitol building.

* Erie Sailors, several minor league baseball teams that played in Erie, Pennsylvania between 1906 and 1994

Lee's agency was working with the Pennsylvania Railroad at the time of the 1906 Atlantic City train wreck.

The Society lasted until 1906, but their final settlement, Old Economy Village ( now Ambridge, Pennsylvania ) contains archives with sheet music that is still performed at special community events.

* 1906: Philadelphia and Thorndale Branch from Thorndale, Pennsylvania east to Glen Loch ( abandoned by Conrail in 1989 )

Initially, Baldwin would build many more steam locomotives at its cramped Broad Street Philadelphia shop but would begin an incremental shift in production to a site located at Spring Street in nearby Eddystone, Pennsylvania, in 1906.

The firm rose quickly in the years immediately after its founding, gaining lucrative clients like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in 1906, which was at the time under public scrutiny for denying information and interviews to journalists.

Kahn conducted negotiations which led to the opening of the doors of the Paris Bourse to American securities and the listing there of $ 50, 000, 000 Pennsylvania bonds, in 1906, the first official listing of American securities in Paris.