WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1906
Find out what all happened February to September 1906

1906 French Grand Prix, the first Grand Prix motor racing event held (26. June 1906)

Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London. (26. May 1906)

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument. (24. September 1906)

Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. (20. September 1906)

The Real Academia Galega, Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana. (30. September 1906)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White. (25. June 1906)

Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value. (8. June 1906)

An estimated 8.2 MW earthquake hits Valparaíso, Chile, killing 3,886 people. (16. August 1906)

Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland. (7. June 1906)

Edouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels. (18. February 1906)

Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos. (11. February 1906)

The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar. (12. September 1906)

The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France. (10. March 1906)

The flag of Sweden is adopted. (22. June 1906)

The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act. (30. June 1906)

Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors. (5. March 1906)

HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII. (10. February 1906)

The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco. (7. April 1906)

Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy. (5. August 1906)

A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong. (18. September 1906)