Macmichael, J. Holden ( 1906 ): The Story of Charing Cross and its Environs, p. 190.

Around 1906, they moved to Harmer Green near Welwyn, where Holden designed a house for them.

Holden was made famous by the posthumous publication, in 1977, of her Nature Notes for 1906 under the title The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady.

Celebrities who were far more famous after their deaths than during their lifetime ( and often were completely or relatively unknown ) include Greek philosopher Socrates ; scientist Galileo Galilei ; 1800s-era poet John Keats ; painter Vincent van Gogh ; poet and novelist Edgar Allan Poe ; singer Eva Cassidy ; writer Emily Dickinson ; artist Edith Holden, whose 1906 diary was a best-seller when published posthumously in 1977 ); writer Franz Kafka ; diarist Anne Frank ; philosopher Soren Kierkegaard ; writer John Kennedy Toole ( who posthumously won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 12 years after his death ); author Stieg Larsson ( who died with his Millennium novels unpublished ) and William Webb Ellis, the alleged inventor of Rugby football.

He won his first international tournament at Munich 1906.

The 1906 Cubs won a record 116 of 154 games.

He won seven first places and a third place in a single high school track and field meet in 1906.

The club won the Southern League twice, in 1905 – 06 and 1906 – 07.

After finishing in first place the club was promoted to the First Division, which it won in 1901 and again in 1906.

Under Ernest Mangnall, who assumed managerial duties in 1903, the team finished as Second Division runners-up in 1906 and secured promotion to the First Division, which they won in 1908 – the club's first league title.

In 1906, the Liberal party, led by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, won an overwhelming victory on a platform that promised social reforms for the working class.

The Mariners won 116 games in, which set the American League record for most wins in a single season and tied the 1906 Chicago Cubs for the Major League record for most wins in a single season.

In 1906, the " Milwaukee Meteor " repeated his Olympic 100 m victory in Athens, a feat not equalled until 1988, when Carl Lewis won the 100 m twice in a row ( albeit after disqualification of Ben Johnson ).

The party won a landslide victory in the 1906 general election.

With the Unionists divided and out of favour with many of their former supporters, the Liberal Party won the 1906 general election by a landslide, with the Unionists reduced to just 157 seats in the House of Commons.

Odds BK / Odd Grenland won the Norwegian Football Cup in 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1913, 1915, 1919, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1931 and 2000, more than any other team in Norway.

Worrall led the club to its first three VFL premierships, won consecutively, in 1906, 1907 and 1908.

Everton won the FA Cup for the first time in 1906 and the League title again in 1914 – 15.

The Unionists proposed Tariff Reform ( a form of protectionism ) to make the British Empire an economic unit ; the Liberals claimed this would make food dearer, and, in the general election of 1906, the Liberals won a landslide.

* Ed Hamm ( 1906 – 1982 )-American track and field athlete, who won the gold medal in long jump at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Ernst August Friedrich Ruska ( 25 December 1906 – 27 May 1988 ) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope.

The original Castleford rugby league club played in the Northern Union ( Rugby Football League ) from 1896 – 97 to 1905 – 06, and it had one player named Isaac Cole who won a cap for England in 1906 against Other Nationalities.

Between 1906 – 8, he won all three London to Lakes End Trials ( motorbike races ).

He held the constituency for the Conservative Party until the 1906 general election, when he won the election for Manchester North West as a Liberal MP.

The club's first title came in 1906, when Fluminense won its first Campeonato Carioca.

Continuing to promote the Boer cause, he helped form the Oranje Unie party in May 1906 and became its chairman ; the party won the majority of seats in the colony's first elections that were held in November 1907.

Gould won the American championship from 1906 to 1926, one of the longest streaks in the history of sport.

A strong swimmer, he won the New Zealand 100-yards championship in 1906 and in 1910.

ASU's campus was built in Colonial Revival architectural style from 1906 until the beginning of World War II.

The Chapel of All Souls Church Interdenominational is an architectural gem from the turn of the twentieth century, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and has been in continuous use by the church since 1906.

An architectural competition to design a permanent church, that of St Albans in Beacon Hill, was held in 1906, and John Duke Coleridge ( 1879-1934 ) was chosen as the architect.

The Eastlake Movement was a nineteenth century architectural and household design reform movement started by architect and writer Charles Eastlake ( 1836 – 1906 ).

Stanford White ( November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906 ) was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms.

The fourth and current church, designed in 1906, was built from 1911 to 1913 under a design by Ralph Adams Cram ( 1863 – 1942 ) and Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue ( 1869 – 1924 ) of the architectural firm of Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson, and featuring an elaborate reredos designed by Goodhue and sculptor Lee Lawrie ( 1877 – 1963 ).

* 19 May: John Betjeman, English architectural writer ( b. 1906 )

The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, dedicated in 1906, remains one of the finest architectural landmarks in the city.

Wishing to increase the scholarly mission of Dumbarton Oaks, in the early 1960s the Blisses sponsored the construction of two new wings, one designed by Philip Johnson ( 1906 – 2005 ) to house the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art and its research library and, the other, a garden library designed by Frederic Rhinelander King ( 1887 – 1972 ), of the New York City architectural firm Wyeth and King, to house the botanical and garden architecture rare books and garden history reference materials that Mildred Bliss had collected.

After returning to America, Herbert Croly worked as an editor for an architectural magazine, The Architectural Record, from 1900 to 1906.

In later years ( 1906 ) Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pitcairn Jr. built a house in Pasadena California designed by the outstanding architectural firm Greene and Greene.

A two-stage architectural design contest was held in 1906 and 1910.

The 1906 Summer Olympics revived the momentum, and the Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world ’ s foremost sports competition.

For example, the British had been fascinated by Edgar Wallace's ( 1875 – 1932 ) crime novels ever since the author set up a competition offering a reward to any reader who could figure out and describe just how the murder in his first book, The Four Just Men ( 1906 ), was committed.

The term originated in a competition in the news-sheet Indian Opinion in South Africa in 1906.

* The Plunket Shield competition is introduced in New Zealand ahead of the 1906 – 07 season.

The first ladies competition was in 1906 and held in Davos.

In 1906 the first Íslandsglíman ( Grettisbeltið ) competition was held where the winners are named Glímukóngur.

Grand Prix motor racing originated in France and the French Grand Prix, open to international competition, is the oldest Grand Prix race, first run on 26 June 1906 under the auspices of the Automobile Club de France in Sarthe, with a starting field of 32 automobiles.

The Great Northern Railway finally came to Seattle in 1884, winning Seattle a place in competition for freight, though it would be 1906 before Seattle finally acquired a major rail passenger terminal.

As 1906 began and continued without any list of prize winners being printed, more and more suspicions were being voiced about the honesty of the competition.

In 1906 Pillsbury died and Marshall again refused the championship title until he won it in competition in 1909.

* 1906 – 07 no competition

The Mount Waverley Cricket Club was founded in 1906 and fields five senior sides playing on turf in the who play in the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association and the Box Hill Reporter competition ( Veterans grade ).

Cracovia is the oldest Polish football club still in existence ( teams from Lwów were a few years older, but the city of Lwow was occupied and subsequently annexed by the Soviet Union in September 1939 and is now part of Ukraine ), and has continually participated in competition since its founding on 13 June 1906.

In 1906 teams from Great Britain, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and France withdrew from an unofficial competition and left Denmark, Smyrna ( one Armenian, two Frenchmen and eight Britons ), Athens and Thessaloniki Music Club to compete.

Two years later at the 1906 Summer Olympics he finished fifth in the 400 metres competition and sixth in the 800 metres event.

Managers since 1906 and later to the accession to professional status in 1932, with the exception of 1939 – 1941, where the Stade Rennais reverted to amateur status, and 1942 – 1944, where no manager was appointed by the board, and 1945 where the club didn't compete in any competition.

He won the competition for Knox College in Dunedin in 1906 when he was only 21 and became an associate of the New Zealand Institute of Architects ( NZIA ) in 1907.

It was formed as the amateur Cottesloe Beach Football Club in 1906, and joined the peak amateur competition, the Western Australian Football Association the following year.

From 1906 the CLR began to experience a large fall in passenger numbers caused by increased competition from the MDR and the MR, which electrified the Inner Circle in 1905, and from the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway ( GNP & BR ) which opened its rival route to Hammersmith in 1906.

In 1906, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no " reserves ", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.

The competition between Sapporo and Japan Beer, as well as competition with the Osaka ( now Asahi ) and Kirin breweries led to a 1906 merger of Sapporo, Japan, and Osaka breweries into the Dai-Nippon Beer Company, Ltd., which formed a near monopoly on the Japanese market until after World War II.