WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1906
Find out what all happened January to December 1906

The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States. (31. March 1906)

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election. (12. January 1906)

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

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

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

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

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

San Francisco public school board sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools. (11. October 1906)

British India officially adopts the Indian Standard Time. (1. January 1906)

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

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

The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens. (15. December 1906)

The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris (22. March 1906)

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

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

A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people. (8. January 1906)

SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130. (22. January 1906)

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

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

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