Events from the year 1906 in the United States .
February 26: The Jungle April 18: 1906 San Francisco earthquake . April 5 – The Maryland General Assembly authorises the erection of the Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Baltimore .
April 14 – The first service is held at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles by W. J. Seymour, in a series later known as the Azusa Street Revival , an event which launches the Pentecostal movement in Christianity.
April 18 – The 1906 San Francisco earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California , killing at least 3,000 people, with 225,000–300,000 left homeless, and $350,000,000 in damages.
May 27 – The first inmates are moved to the Culion leper colony by the American Insular Government of the Philippine Islands .
June – Josephine Terranova is acquitted by a New York City jury of the murder of abusive relatives.[ 1]
June 6 – Durham and Southern Railway operates its first revenue train, Bonsal to Durham, North Carolina .
June 8 – 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.
June 18 – The Lake County Times (later The Times of Northwest Indiana ) begins publication.
June 25 – Harry K. Thaw shoots architect Stanford White at the roof garden theatre of Madison Square Garden (designed by White) in New York City.
June 28 – Osage Allotment Act allocates land to members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma .
June 29 – Mesa Verde is declared a National Park.
June 30 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act . September 5: The first legal forward pass in an American football . July 11 – Murder of Grace Brown , a factory worker whose killing causes a nationwide sensation.
July 14 – Gary, Indiana is founded by the United States Steel Corporation .
August 23 – Unable to control a rebellion in the newly formed Cuban Republic, President Tomás Estrada Palma requests U.S. intervention.
September 5 – Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
September 22 – Atlanta race riot : Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia result in 27 people killed and the Black-owned business district severely damaged.
September 24 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower , Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument .
September 26 – The first concert of the Telharmonium
September 30 – The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team, piloting the balloon United States , lands in Fylingdales , Yorkshire , England , UK .
May 3 – Mary Astor , actress and writer (died 1987)
May 11
May 12 – Maurice Ewing , geophysicist and oceanographer (died 1974)
May 19 – Bruce Bennett , athlete and actor (died 2007)[ 4]
May 23 – Allan Scott , screenwriter (died 1995)
May 28 – Phil Regan , actor (died 1996)
June 3 – Josephine Baker , actress (died 1975 in France )
June 19 – Earl W. Bascom , rodeo pioneer, artist, inventor (died 1995)
June 22 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh , author and aviator (died 2001)
June 26 – Viktor Schreckengost , industrial designer (died 2008) July 1 – Estée Lauder , cosmetics entrepreneur (died 2004)
July 7 – Satchel Paige , baseball player (died 1982)
July 18 – S. I. Hayakawa , Canadian-born American academic and politician, U.S. Senator from California from 1977 to 1983 (died 1992 )
August 6 – Vic Dickenson , trombonist (died 1984)
August 9 – Robert L. Surtees , cinematographer (died 1985)
August 12 – Tedd Pierce , animator (died 1972)
August 17 – Hazel Bishop , chemist and inventor of "no-smear" lipstick (died 1998)
August 19 – Philo Farnsworth , American inventor and television pioneer (died 1971)
August 27 – Ed Gein , serial killer (died 1984) November 1 – Johnny Indrisano , boxer and actor (died 1968)
November 5 – Fred Lawrence Whipple , astronomer (died 2004)
November 14 – Louise Brooks , actress (died 1985)
November 15 – Curtis LeMay , U.S.A.F. general, vice-presidential candidate (died 1990)
November 18 – George Wald , scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)
December 9 – Grace Hopper , computer scientist and naval officer (died 1992)
December 11 – Herman Welker , U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1951 to 1957 (died 1957)
December 27 – Oscar Levant , pianist, composer, author, comedian and actor (died 1972)
January 25
February 9 – Paul Laurence Dunbar , poet and publisher (born 1872)
February 18 – John B. Stetson , hat manufacturer and inventor of the cowboy hat (born 1830 )
February 27 – Samuel Pierpont Langley , astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer (born 1834)
March 4 – John Schofield , 28th United States Secretary of War and Commanding General of the United States Army (born 1831 )
March 13 – Susan B. Anthony , civil rights and women's suffrage activist (born 1820)
April 11
April 24 – Mary Hunt , temperance activist (born 1830)
April 25 – John Knowles Paine , composer (born 1839 )
May 12 – Gabriel C. Wharton , civil engineer and Confederate general (born 1824 )
May 14 – Carl Schurz , German-born statesman (born 1829)
May 15 – John K. Bucklyn , Medal of Honor recipient (born 1834 )
June 17 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury , chess champion (born 1872)
June 25 – Stanford White , architect (born 1853 )
September 20 – Robert R. Hitt , 13th Assistant Secretary of State (born 1834 )
September 21 – Samuel Arnold , conspirator involved in the plot to kidnap U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 (born 1834 )
October 6 – Buck Ewing , American baseball player New York Giants and MLB Hall of Famer (born 1859 )
October 9 – Joseph Glidden , inventor of barbed wire (born 1813 )
October 16 – Varina Davis , wife of Jefferson Davis , First Lady of the Confederate States of America (born 1826 )
October 17 – James D. Walker , United States Senator from Arkansas from 1879 till 1885 (born 1830 )
November 4 – John H. Ketcham , politician (born 1832)
November 23 – Willard Warner , United States Senator from Alabama from 1868 till 1871 (born 1826 )
December 12 – Arthur Brown , United States Senator from Utah from 1896 till 1897 (born 1843 )
December 22 – Richard S. Rust , abolitionist (born 1815 )
December 30 – Thomas M. Bowen , United States Senator from Colorado from 1883 till 1889 (born 1835 )
December 31 – Donelson Caffery , United States Senator from Louisiana from 1892 till 1901 (born 1835)
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