* 1906 – Lionel Bertrand, Canadian politician and newspaper editor ( d. 1979 )

* Lionel Smith Beale ( 1828 – 1906 ), British medical doctor and professor at King's College London

Standard Gauge, also known as Wide Gauge, was an early model railway and toy train rail gauge, introduced in the United States in 1906 by Lionel Corporation.

After studying at home with a governess, Eric enrolled ( 1906 ) at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he received viola lessons from Lionel Tertis and studied composition with Frederick Corder.

Her elder brother, Édouard Alphonse Émile Lionel ( 1906 – 1911 ), died at the age of four of appendicitis ; she also had a brother, Guy and a sister, Jacqueline.

* Lionel Tertis ( in 1906 )

* 1906 Lionel James

By 1906, he was studying music full-time ; by 1907, he began composition lessons.

Following a Royal Commission report in 1906, work began on a new prayer book, work that was to take twenty years due in part to the demands of the Great War ( 1914 – 18 ) and in part to the constitution of the Church Assembly in 1920 which " perhaps not unnaturally wished to do the work all over again for itself.

He began his military education at the Baoding Military Academy, in 1906.

By 1906, Beaux began to live year-round at Green Alley, in a comfortable colony of " cottages " belonging to her wealthy friends and neighbors.

In 1906 construction began on the Post Office, with local cricketer George Wilder laying an inscribed brick.

Following the Welsh Revival, the Azusa Street Revival in 1906 began the spread of Pentecostalism in North America.

Once the 1906 season got underway, many programs began experimenting with the forward pass.

Such racing began in 1906 and, in the second half of the 20th century, became the most popular kind of racing internationally.

Between 1906 and 1909 the Hawks family began to spend more time in Pasadena, California during the cold Wisconsin winters in order to improve Helen Hawks's ill health.

During sporadic excavations at Boğazköy ( Hattusa ) that began in 1906, the archaeologist Hugo Winckler found a royal archive with 10, 000 tablets, inscribed in cuneiform Akkadian and the same unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of the two names.

Meanwhile the Muslims for the first time began to organize, setting up the All India Muslim League in 1906.

However, when in 1906 two city teams chose the city's Roman amphitheatre as a venue to showcase the game, crowd enthusiasm and media interest began to rise.

Left and right defence began to replace the point and cover point positions in 1906 in the OHA.

The IEC held its inaugural meeting on 26 June 1906, following discussions between the British Institution of Electrical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and others, which began at the 1900 Paris International Electrical Congress, and continued with Colonel R. E. B. Crompton playing a key role.

His early style was that of an illustrator ; he only began to work regularly in oils in 1906.

The word kulak originally referred to independent farmers in the Russian Empire who emerged from the peasantry and became wealthy following the Stolypin reform, which began in 1906.

William Everdell, for example, has argued that modernism began in the 1870s, when metaphorical ( or ontological ) continuity began to yield to the discrete with mathematician Richard Dedekind's ( 1831 – 1916 ) Dedekind cut, and Ludwig Boltzmann's ( 1844 – 1906 ) statistical thermodynamics.

Initially inhabited by Micronesian and Polynesian peoples, Nauru was annexed by Germany in the late 19th century, and extraction of the island's phosphate began in 1906.

Between 1906 and 1910, he served an apprenticeship with painter Carl Senff, and began painting his first landscapes.

The political history of the nation began with the birth of the All India Muslim League in 1906 to protect Muslim interests, amid neglect and under-representation, in case the British Raj decided to grant local self-rule.

Following the passage of the Papua Act, 1905, British New Guinea became the Territory of Papua, and formal Australian administration began in 1906, although Papua remained de jure a British possession until the independence of Papua New Guinea in 1975.

In 1906, convinced he could resolve the conundrum of Uranus's orbit, he began an extensive project to search for a trans-Neptunian planet, which he named Planet X.

At the same time, the first Romanian language newspapers and journals began to appear: Basarabia ( 1906 ), Viața Basarabiei ( 1907 ), Moldovanul ( 1907 ), Luminătorul ( 1908 ), Cuvînt moldovenesc ( 1913 ), Glasul Basarabiei ( 1913 ).

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed parts of the Main Quad ( including the original iteration of Memorial Church ) as well as the gate that first marked the entrance of the school ; rebuilding on a somewhat less grandiose scale began immediately.

By 1906, Thurman was offering built-in central cleaning systems that used compressed air, yet featured no dust collection.

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.

In 1906, an October snowstorm in Salida, Colorado, destroyed Sunday's tent — a special disaster because revivalists were typically paid with a freewill offering at the end of their meetings.

Despite the offering of International Steam, the firm's real shift from being a commodities house to a house of issue did not begin until 1906.

Allendale Golf Club was founded in 1906, and the scenic course and clubhouse are located south of the village with green fees offering both annual and easy per-round playing opportunities.

Unlike other manufacturers, Nitisemito, who first created the Bal Tiga brand in 1906, enjoyed great success by implementing unprecedented marketing techniques, such as using embossed packs or offering free-of-charge promotional materials.

Initially TSU was seen as a trade school, and its origin as such could be traced to as early as 1906, when the director of public instruction mandated the offering of intermediate grades and selected areas in the country to cater to industrial and vocational courses.

By 1906, the college was offering programs for training assistant engineers, land surveyors and primary school teachers.

Iloilo Mission Hospital School of Nursing which was established in 1906, pioneered Nursing in the Philippines | Nursing education in the Philippines, but later in 1946, Dr. Henry S. Waters, the director and principal of the Hospital and its School of Nursing, pressed for the offering, with Central Philippine College ( the forerunner of Central Philippine University ), a collegiate course leading to the Nursing | Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree, which resulted the full operations of the school transferred to the College.

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

* 1906 – Jan Pijnenburg, Dutch track cyclist ( d. 1979 )

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1906 Summer Olympics

The Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway, laid track across the county in 1906, helping the growing economy.

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

The year 1906 also brought news that the railroad had contracted for the first stretch of track from Bonesteel to Gregory.

An important race track, now demolished, was built in 1906.

Adolphe Kégresse designed an original caterpillar tracks system, called the Kégresse track, while working for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia between 1906 and 1916.

The species was abundant in a few places in the early 20th century between Hawke's Bay and the Wairarapa ; a flock of 100 – 150 birds was reported at the summit of the Akatarawa-Waikane track in 1905 ; they were still " fairly plentiful " in the upper reaches of the Rangitikei River in 1906 – and yet, the last confirmed sighting came just one year later.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1906 Summer Olympics

Between 1906 and 1907, of track were purchased from seventeen private railway companies.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1906 Summer Olympics

One of the first modified off-road vehicles was the Kégresse track, a conversion undertaken first by Adolphe Kégresse, who designed the original while working for Czar Nicholas II of Russia between 1906 and 1916.

This track did not last long ; it was reportedly disconnected and removed in 1906, only two years after the subway opened.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1906 Summer Olympics

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1906 Summer Olympics

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1906 Summer Olympics

Laying of track was started in 1906, and in 1907 the two groups, both having started at their own end, met at Ustaoset.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1906 Summer Olympics

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1906 Summer Olympics

The railway in Carshalton Beeches has been around since 1847 when track was laid between Epsom, Sutton and West Croydon but it was not until 1906 that a halt was opened in the small settlement, at the north end of Beeches Avenue ( at the time called Beechnut Tree Walk ).

This elevated station, opened on March 16, 1906, has two side platforms and three tracks with the center track not used in revenue service.

This elevated station, opened on March 16, 1906, has two side platforms and three tracks with the center track not used in revenue service.

In 1906, the citybound track was moved to the western side of the building and the southbound track replaced the former citybound track.