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

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 ).

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.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

The burial ground was dedicated as the Andrew Johnson National Cemetery in 1906, now part of the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site.

André Weil (; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998 ) was an influential French mathematician of the 20th century, renowned for the breadth and quality of his research output, its influence on future work, and the elegance of his exposition.

In April 1906, Mrs Deter died and Alzheimer had the patient records and the brain brought to Munich where he was working at Kraepelin's lab.

A speech given on 3 November 1906 was the first time the pathology and the clinical symptoms of presenile dementia were presented together.

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

The Lord's Day Act, which since 1906 had prohibited business transactions from taking place on Sundays, was struck down as unconstitutional in the 1985 case R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd. Calgary police officers witnessed several transactions at the Big M Drug Mart, all of which occurred on a Sunday.

295 ), the Canada Supreme Court opined that the 1906 Lord's Day Act that required most places to be closed on Sunday did not have a legitimate secular purpose, and was an unconstitutional attempt to establish a religious-based closing law in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

In 1906 Arnold Theiler showed that bluetongue was caused by a filterable agent.

The last majority Liberal Government in Britain was elected in 1906.

The first stage was the construction of the northern wing beginning 1906.

It was regarded as the " Great San Francisco Quake " prior to 1906.

From 1907 on, English language articles sometimes used the term " Maximalist " for " Bolshevik " and " Minimalist " for " Menshevik ", which proved confusing since there was also a " Maximalist " faction within the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1904 – 1906 ( which after 1906 formed a separate Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries Maximalists ) and then again after 1917.

Total membership was 8, 400 in 1905, 13, 000 in 1906 and 46, 100 by 1907 ( 8, 400, 18, 000, 38, 200 respectively for the Mensheviks ).

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.

In 1906, the Oubangui-Chari territory was united with the Chad colony ; in 1910, it became one of the four territories of the Federation of French Equatorial Africa ( AEF ), along with Chad, Middle Congo, and Gabon.

A colony was established, and a series of military governors were posted to Clipperton from that time, the last of whom would be Ramón Arnaud ( 1906 – 1916 ).

During this time Attlee also played football for Fleet Town F. C .. Attlee then trained as a lawyer, and was called to the Bar in 1906.

The term compact was introduced into mathematics by Maurice Fréchet in 1906 as a distillation of this concept.

In 1906, the Ottoman Porte formally transferred administration of Sinai to the Egyptian government, which essentially meant that it fell under the control of the United Kingdom, who had occupied and largely controlled Egypt since 1882.

British New Guinea was transferred to the newly established Commonwealth of Australia in 1906, and became known as Papua.

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway built a passenger depot in Catlettsburg in 1906 and operated the facility for over 52 years until 1958 when passenger service was transferred to nearby Ashland.

His father was transferred in 1862 to a similar position in Lismore, County Waterford, holding the post until his death in 1906.

* The Rollicking Girl Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on May 1 and transferred to the New York Theatre on April 16, 1906 for a total run of 199 performances

One of the hospitals was founded by the famous Capuchin philanthropist, Theodosius Florentini ( 1808 – 1865 ), who was for a long time the Romanist cure of Coire, and whose remains were in 1906 transferred from the cathedral here to Ingenbohl ( near Schwyz ), his chief foundation.

From 1903, Tsar Nicholas II transferred Witte to the position of chairman of the Committee of Ministers, a position he held until 1906.

In late 1906 production was transferred to larger premises and output was concentrated on 6-cylinder models.

In 1935, on the creation of the LPTB, control was transferred to it from the Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Committee which had taken it over in 1906 ; the whole branch was closed on 30 November 1935.

Garratt transferred to the Argentine Central Railway in 1889, where he became Locomotive Superintendent in 1892, and between 1900 and 1906 he worked for railways in Cuba, Lagos, and Lima ( Peru ).

The student body and building were transferred to the Western Kentucky State Normal School, when it was created by an act of the Kentucky General Assembly in 1906.

The predecessor of Xi ' an Jiaotong University is Nanyang Public University that was founded in Shanghai in 1896 ; in 1905, it was transferred to the commercial department and was renamed High Industrial School ; in 1906, it was under the command of postal transmission department.

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.

He was promoted to lieutenant colonel and assigned to the 14th Infantry in 1904 and later was transferred to the 19th Infantry and became the director of the U. S. Army War College from 1904 to 1906.

In 1906 the forest reserves were transferred to the U. S. Forest Service, and on March 4, 1907 Tonto became a National Forest.

After a short interlude with the German mission at The Hague, he returned as First Secretary to the embassy in Rome in March 1901, where he stayed until 1906, when he was transferred to the Foreign Office in Berlin.

* 1906 February 1: All prisoners had been transferred to the new facility, and the War Department appreciatively accepted the return of its prison.

" A total of 25 F8C-4 aircraft were transferred to the U. S. Marine Corps shortly after the release of Hell Divers. The production received full cooperation from the US Navy Department, not only featuring the song ( uncredited but considered the unofficial song of the US Navy ), " Anchors Aweigh " ( 1906 ) ( written by Charles A. Zimmerman, lyrics by Alfred Hart Miles and R. Lovell ) in the opening credits but also a dedication to the naval aviators who made the film possible.

* HMS Hasty was a tender transferred from the War Department in 1906 as, renamed HMS Hasty in 1913 and sold in 1932.

After initial service in Hong Kong, Johnston was transferred to the British leased territory at Weihaiwei in 1906 on the coast of the Shandong Peninsula as a District Officer, working with Sir James Haldane Stewart Lockhart.

She was transferred in 1905 and renamed in 1906.

When Bland was abolished in 1906, Watson transferred to South Sydney.

With the introduction of the Residential System in Brunei in 1906, all the executive power, except in matters of religion, was transferred from the Sultan to the Resident.

The power that was being transferred by Hydro One was already being generated at Niagara Falls by previously established private companies. Also during 1906, the company assigned Adam Beck as chairman.