WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO SEPTEMBER 1906
Find out what all happened April to September 1906

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

Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece. (2. May 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)

The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established. (1. September 1906)

Central railway station, Sydney opens. (4. August 1906)

An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California. (18. April 1906)

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

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

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

First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe. (13. September 1906)

In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control. (25. September 1906)

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

Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies. (8. April 1906)

Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully. (7. September 1906)

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

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

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

Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. (11. July 1906)

The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine". (22. May 1906)

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