J. Horace McFarland, the Sierra Club, and the Appalachian Mountain Club persuaded the United States Congress in 1906 to enact legislation to preserve the falls by regulating the waters of Niagara River.

Her high school teacher of English and German persuaded her to attend the University of Chicago, which she entered in 1906 on a one-year scholarship.

With rising anti-Semitism and pogroms against Jews, in 1906 he travelled with other prominent rabbis to seek help from Western European governments, especially Germany and Holland, and persuaded bankers there to use their influence to stop pogroms.

On a tour to Latin America in 1906, Root persuaded those governments to participate in the Hague Peace Conference.

Haldane was persuaded by fellow Liberal Imperialist, Edward Grey, as early as January 1906 to begin planning for a Continental war in support of the French against the Germans.

Desiring election to the Senate following his gubernatorial term, Beckham persuaded his Democratic allies to choose the party's nominees for governor and senator by a primary election held in 1906 – a year before the gubernatorial election and two years before the senatorial election.

* 1906 – William J. Brennan, American Supreme Court Justice ( d. 1997 )

He left school at 11 to be apprenticed to his father and enrolled at night school before working as a draughtsman for C. J. Begeer, a jeweller in Utrecht, from 1906 to 1911.

* 1906 – A. J. P.

* 1906 – J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and photojournalist ( d. 1985 )

J. Thomson ( 1856-1940 ): showed in 1897 that cathode rays were composed of a previously unknown negatively charged particle ( later named the electron ), discovered isotopes, invented the mass spectrometer, awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the electron and for his work on the conduction of electricity in gases.

In 1906 H. J.

The first ( photographed ) animated projection was " Humorous Phases of Funny Faces " ( 1906 ) by newspaper cartoonist J. Stuart Blackton, one of the co-founders of the Vitagraph Company arrived.

Hayakawa ( 1906 – 1992 ), speech professor Wendell Johnson, speech professor Irving J. Lee, and others assembled elements of general semantics into a package suitable for incorporation into mainstream communications curricula.

) Reprinted 1906 as " The Elder Eddas of Saemund " in Rasmus B. Anderson & J. W. Buel ( Eds.

The Apostolic Faith Mission of Portland was founded in 1906 by Florence L. Crawford, who was affiliated at that time with William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival of Los Angeles, California.

* Paul J. Smith ( director ) ( 1906 – 1980 ), American animator and director best known for his work in Woody Woodpecker cartoons

Its only source is a 9th century Syriac commentary by Isho ' dad of Merv on the Acts of the Apostles, discovered, edited and translated ( into Greek ) by Prof. J. Rendel Harris in a series of articles in the Expositor ( Oct. 1906, 305 – 17 ; Apr.

* the Lake Eyre myths ( recorded by J. W. Gregory in 1906 ), telling of the deserts of Central Australia as once having been fertile, well-watered plains, and the deserts around present Lake Eyre having been one continuous garden.

It was managed by J. Spiegel and later purchased by George M. Hillenbrand in February 1906.

* Dr. David J. Loring Residence and Clinic Built in 1906, this house served Dr. Loring as a home and a business.

* J. D. Grey, a figure in the Southern Baptist Convention, was born in Princeton in 1906.

In 1906, Doctors Lillian H. South, J. N. McCormack, A. T. McCormack opened St. Joseph Hospital to provide around the clock medical and nursing care to the residents and students in the area.

* John J. Kenny ( 1906 – 1986 ), Founder, J. J. Kenny Co., Bond brokerage

Originally named Maysworth, the town was founded in 1906 when J. H.

* J. I. M. Stewart ( Michael Innes ) ( 1906 – 1994 ), literary critic and novelist

* Sir J. J. Thomson ( Physics, 1906 )

Eber L. Taylor of Manchester Depot recorded the setting of phone poles in East Dorset and Barnumville in his diary for 1906.

The Institute derives its name from Paul Von Groth's Chemische Krystallographie, a five-volume work which appeared between 1906 and 1919.

At twelve minutes after five on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, San Francisco was shaken by a severe earthquake.

* A. M. ( automobile ), a 1906 French car

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

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

His pamphlet " The Art of Organ Building and Organ Playing in Germany and France " ( 1906, republished with an appendix on the state of the organ-building industry in 1927 ) effectively launched the 20th century Orgelbewegung, which turned away from romantic extremes and rediscovered baroque principles — although this sweeping reform movement in organ building eventually went further than Schweitzer himself had intended.

In 1906 he joined the newly-formed Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research in New York where he spent the rest of his career.

* 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 )

In 1906, precipitation hardening alloys were discovered by Alfred Wilm.

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.

Count Eusebi Güell added to the prestige of the development by moving in 1906 to live in Larrard House.

One was intended to be a show house, but on being completed in 1904 was put up for sale, and as no buyers came forward, Gaudí, at Güell's suggestion, bought it with his savings and moved in with his family and his father in 1906.

This house, where Gaudí lived from 1906 to 1926, was built by Francesc Berenguer in 1904.

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

* Wundt, W. ( 1906 ).