1906
common year starting on Monday
1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1906th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 906th year of the 2nd millennium, the 6th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1906, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1870s 1880s 1890s – 1900s – 1910s 1920s 1930s |
| Years: | 1903 1904 1905 – 1906 – 1907 1908 1909 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1906 MCMVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2659 |
| Armenian calendar | 1355 ԹՎ ՌՅԾԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6656 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 62–63 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1827–1828 |
| Bengali calendar | 1313 |
| Berber calendar | 2856 |
| British Regnal year | 5 Edw. 7 – 6 Edw. 7 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2450 |
| Burmese calendar | 1268 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7414–7415 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4602 or 4542 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4603 or 4543 |
| Coptic calendar | 1622–1623 |
| Discordian calendar | 3072 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1898–1899 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5666–5667 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1962–1963 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1827–1828 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5006–5007 |
| Holocene calendar | 11906 |
| Igbo calendar | 906–907 |
| Iranian calendar | 1284–1285 |
| Islamic calendar | 1323–1324 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiji 39 (明治３９年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1835–1836 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4239 |
| Minguo calendar | 6 before ROC 民前6年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 438 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2448–2449 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 2032 or 1651 or 879 — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 2033 or 1652 or 880 |
Events
change- April 18 – An earthquake in San Francisco, California kills at least three thousand people.
- Camillo Golgi, Italian doctor, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Santiago Ramón y Cajal
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish doctor, won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Camillo Golgi
Births
change- January 11 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss scientist, invented LSD
- January 14 - William Bendix, American actor (d. 1964)
- March 6 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (d. 1959)
- April 13 – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer (d. 1989)
- April 28 – Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American mathematician (d. 1978)
- July 14 – William H. Tunner, American World War II general (d. 1983)
- August 27 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
- September 25 – José Figueres Ferrer, President of Costa Rica (d. 1990)
- September 25 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Soviet composer (d. 1975)
- October 30 – Alexander Gode, German-American linguist and translator (d. 1970)
- November 14 – Louise Brooks, American actress and dancer (d. 1985)
- December 19 – Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
Hit songs
change- "Anchors Aweigh"
Movies Released
change- Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, the first animated movie
- The Story of the Kelly Gang, the first feature-length movie