Photographers Alfred Steiglitz and Edward Steichen open Gallery 291 in New York. George Bernard Shaw's play Mrs. Warren's Profession premieres in New York. Mrs. Warren makes her living as a brothel madam. The actors are prosecuted on morals charges but are acquitted. 1906 President Roosevelt dismisses three companies of black infantry troops after several of the soldiers are accused of shooting at the citizenry in Brownsville, Texas.
Little evidence supports the accusations.
The Army will reverse this decision in 1972, changing the men's discharges to honorable. A U.S contingent under Chief Engineer John Findley Wallace commences work on the Panama Canal. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle details shockingly unsanitary conditions in the American meat-packing industry. The book incites a public and political uproar. A violent earthquake strikes San Francisco.