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

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 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.

Berkeley's slow growth ended abruptly with the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.

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

Ruins from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, remembered as one of the worst natural disaster s in United States history

The longest earthquake ruptures on strike-slip faults, like the San Andreas Fault ( 1857, 1906 ), the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey ( 1939 ) and the Denali Fault in Alaska ( 2002 ), are about half to one third as long as the lengths along subducting plate margins, and those along normal faults are even shorter.

In modern popular culture, the portrayal of earthquakes is shaped by the memory of great cities laid waste, such as Kobe in 1995 or San Francisco in 1906.

By today's standards, the quake ranged from 8. 4 to 8. 8 on the Richter Scale, slightly stronger than the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a statue of Agassiz fell from its niche on the front of the Stanford University zoology building.

" Eleven year-old Dorothy Talbot of San Francisco was reported to be ascendant to the throne on March 1, 1906, when the Palace of Oz was expected to be completed.

* 1906 – San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.

The university struggled financially after the senior Stanford's 1893 death and after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

The ruins of the unfinished Stanford Library after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

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.

Much of this first construction was destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but the university retains the Quad, the old Chemistry Building ( which is not in use and has been boarded up since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake ), and Encina Hall ( the residence of Herbert Hoover, John Steinbeck, and Anthony Kennedy during their times at Stanford ).

It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Other especially notable earthquakes that spurred major developments in the science of seismology include the 1857 Basilicata earthquake, 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the 1964 Alaska earthquake, the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, and the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake.

From left, clockwise: The Wright brothers achieve the first manned flight by airplane, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina | Kitty Hawk in 1903 ; U. S. President William McKinley is William McKinley assassination | assassinated in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition ; An 1906 San Francisco earthquake | earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, killing at least 3, 000 in 1906 ; United States | America gains control over the Philippines in 1902, after the Philippine – American War ; Rock being moved to construct the Panama Canal ; Admiral Heihachiro Togo | Togo before the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, part of the Russo-Japanese War, leading to Japanese victory and their establishment as a great power.

Ruins from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, remembered as one of the worst natural disaster s in United States history

* 1906 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer ( d. 2009 )

* April 18, 1906 — The 1906 San Francisco earthquake ( estimated magnitude 7. 8 ) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, USA, killing at least 3, 000, with 225, 000 – 300, 000 left homeless, and $ 350 million in damages.

* 1906 – An estimated 8. 2 M < sub > W </ sub > earthquake hits Valparaíso, Chile, killing 3, 886 people.

The Solkan Bridge, built in 1906 After the Ljubljana earthquake of 1895, the city experienced a rapid modernization under the charismatic Liberal nationalist mayors Ivan Hribar and Ivan Tavčar.

Unfortunately, the earthquake of April 18, 1906, seriously damaged the building.

The large stone church was severely damaged in the 1906 ' quake.

The Blériot IV was damaged in a taxiing accident at Bagatelle on 12 November 1906.

A hurricane in 1903 killed 31 people and damaged the sugar crop and a strong earthquake off Saint Lucia in 1906 caused further damage in Martinique, but mercifully no deaths.

After the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 damaged the finances of California College, a Baptist commission began exploring the liquidation of both institutions to develop a new institution in Southern California.

Her other projects include the redesign of the landmark Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco after it was damaged by the earthquake of 1906.

On July 22, 1968, the 1906 cathedral was damaged in a fire, destroying many features including the rose window.

The fort, moderately damaged in the 1906 earthquake, was used over the next four decades for barracks, training, and storage, however, in 1913, part of the interior wall was removed by the Army in their short lived attempt to make the fort the Army detention barracks using Soldier / Prisoner labor.

The angels survived the 1906 earthquake, but the angel looking downward was severely damaged during the 1989 earthquake because an 8-foot section of its left wing fell.

Although the school building was considerably damaged in the earthquake of 1906, no class time was lost.

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake damaged the building, but did not destroy it.

* 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.

In 1906, he was appointed to the " Armstrong Insurance Commission " to investigate the insurance industry in New York as a special assistant to U. S. attorney general.

The U. S. Army first authorized identification tags in War Department General Order No. 204, dated December 20, 1906, which essentially prescribes the Kennedy identification tag:

In 1906, the U. S. Religious Census listed Churches of Christ for the first time as a group which was separate and distinct from the Disciples of Christ.

* 1906 – U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.

Roosevelt established the United States Forest Service, signed into law the creation of five National Parks, and signed the 1906 Antiquities Act, under which he proclaimed 18 new U. S. National Monuments.

La Guardia joined the State Department and served in U. S. consulates in Budapest, Trieste ( Italy ), and Fiume ( Austria-Hungary ), now Rijeka ( Croatia ), ( 1901 – 1906 ).

In 1906, Lee De Forest of the U. S. added a control " grid " to the valve to create a vacuum tube RF detector called the Audion, leading Fleming to accuse him of copying his ideas.

* 1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U. S. patent number 821, 393 for their " Flying-Machine ".

* 1906 – John McAllister Schofield, former U. S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U. S. Army ( b. 1831 )

* 1906 – U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.

Death rates for typhoid fever in the U. S. 1906 – 1960

He served in the Ohio Senate ( 1899 – 1903 ), as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio ( 1904 – 1906 ) and as a U. S. Senator ( 1915 – 1921 ).

The National Greyhound Association founded in 1906 strictly regulates greyhound ownership in the U. S, and has established comprehensive animal welfare guidelines based on veterinary recommendations.

Roosevelt established the United States Forest Service, signed into law the creation of five National Parks, and signed the year 1906 Antiquities Act, under which he proclaimed 18 new U. S. National Monuments.

Co. v. Riggs ( 203 U. S. 243 ( 1906 )), the Court accepted that corporations are for legal purposes " persons ," but still ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment was not a bar to many state laws that effectively limited a corporation's right to contract business as it pleased.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Abelle, Victor: " Pierrot and Pierrette " ( 1906 ; piano ); Foote, Arthur: " Pierrot " and " Pierrette ", from Five Bagatelles ( c. 1894 ; piano ); Hoiby, Lee: " Pierrot " ( 1950 ; # 2 of Night Songs for voice and piano ; text by Adelaide Crapsey above under # Poetry | Poetry ); Neidlinger, William Harold: Piano Sketches ( 1905 ; # 5: " Pierrot "; # 7: " Columbine "); Oehmler, Leo: " Pierrot and Pierrette – Petite Gavotte " ( 1905 ; violin and piano ).

The amendment effectively makes Cuba a U. S. protectorate and allowed for American intervention in Cuban affairs in 1906, 1912, 1917, and 1920.

Barringer and his partner, the mathematician and physicist Benjamin Chew Tilghman, documented evidence for the impact theory in papers presented to the U. S. Geological Survey in 1906 and published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.

Back of an envelope mailed in the U. S. in 1906, with a postage stamp and address

In 1906, Professor Layal Shafee, after an exhaustive study, put the number of tramps in America at about 500, 000 ( about 0. 6 % of the U. S. population ).

Harvey W. Wiley, the " father " of the Food and Drug Administration in the U. S., challenged the safety of benzoate which was banned in the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act.