WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO NOVEMBER 1906
Find out what all happened May to November 1906

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

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

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

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

A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong. (18. September 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 Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar. (12. September 1906)

The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer. (16. October 1906)

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

Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece. (2. May 1906)

Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal. (9. November 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)

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

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

A 13-6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football. (24. November 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. (13. August 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)

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

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