1906

Events from the year 1906 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Theodore Roosevelt (R-NY)
* Vice President: Charles W. Fairbanks (R-IN)
* Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (IL)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Joseph Gurney Cannon (R-IL)
* Congress: 59th
==Events==
===January - March===
* January 8 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 21 people.
* February 26 – Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a novel depicting the life of an immigrant family in Chicago during the early 1900s.
* March 4 – Native American tribal governments are terminated in Indian Territory, a prerequisite for creating the U.S. state of Oklahoma in 1907.
===April - June===
* April 5 – The Maryland General Assembly authorizes 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.
* 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 now 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.
===July - September===
* July 11 – Murder of Grace Brown, a factory worker whose killing caused 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, the first music synthesizer, is presented at Telharmonic Hall, Broadway at 39th St., New York City.
* 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.
===October - December===
* October 1 – The Madeira School, a private boarding school for girls, opens with 28 students attending classes in two buildings on 19th Street, just off Dupont Circle in downtown Washington, D.C.
* October 11 – The San Francisco public school board sparks a United States diplomatic crisis with Japan, by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
* October 14 – The Chicago White Sox win their First World Series by defeating their crosstown rival Chicago Cubs 4 games to 2 at South Side Park.
* November 9 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt leaves for a trip to Panama to inspect the construction progress of the Panama Canal (the first time a sitting President of the United States makes an official trip outside of the United States).
* December 4 – Alpha Phi Alpha, the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter Fraternity established for African Americans, is founded at Cornell University.
* December 8 – The Petrified Forest, Arizona is designated a National Monument.
* December 10 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating peace in the Russo-Japanese War (1905).
==Memoriam==
* January 7 – Elliot Danforth, lawyer and politician (aged 55; New York City, NY, USA)
* January 25
** John S. Harris, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1868 to 1871 (aged 80; Butte, MT, USA)
** Joseph Wheeler, U.S. Army general and politician (aged 69; New York City, NY, USA)
* February 9 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet and publisher (aged 33; Dayton, OH, USA)
* February 18 – John B. Stetson, hat manufacturer and inventor of the cowboy hat (aged 75; DeLand, FL, USA)
* February 27 – Samuel Langley, astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (aged 71; Aiken, SC, USA)
* March 3 – Jim Hogg, 20th Governor of Texas (aged 54; Houston, TX, USA)
* March 4 – John Schofield, 28th United States Secretary of War and Commanding General of the United States Army (aged 74; St. Augustine, FL, USA)
* March 13 – Susan B. Anthony, civil rights and women's suffrage activist (aged 86; Rochester, NY, USA)
* April 11
** James Anthony Bailey, circus ringmaster (aged 58; Mount Vernon, NY, USA)
** Francis Pharcellus Church, editor and publisher (aged 67; New York City, NY, USA)
* April 24 – Mary Hunt, temperance activist (aged 75; South Canaan, CT, USA)
* April 25 – John Knowles Paine, composer (aged 67; Cambridge, MA, USA)
* May 12 – Gabriel C. Wharton, civil engineer and Confederate general (aged 81; Radford, VA, USA)
* May 14 – Carl Schurz, German-born statesman (aged 77; New York City, NY, USA)
* May 15 – John K. Bucklyn, Medal of Honor recipient (aged 72; Mystic, CT, USA)
* June 4 – Arthur Pue Gorman, U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1903 to 1906 (aged 67; Washington, DC, USA)
* June 17 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury, chess champion (aged 33; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* June 25 – Stanford White, architect (aged 52; New York City, NY, USA)
* September 20 – Robert R. Hitt, 13th Assistant Secretary of State (aged 72; Narragansett Pier, RI, USA)
* September 21 – Samuel Arnold, conspirator involved in the plot to kidnap U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 (aged 72; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* October 6 – Buck Ewing, American baseball player New York Giants and MLB Hall of Famer (aged 47; Cincinnati, OH, USA)
* October 9 – Joseph Glidden, inventor of barbed wire (aged 93; Dekalb, IL, USA)
* October 16 – Varina Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States of America (aged 80; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 17 – James D. Walker, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1879 to 1885 (aged 75; Fayetteville, AR, USA)
* November 4 – John H. Ketcham, politician (aged 73; New York City, NY, USA)
* November 23 – Willard Warner, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1868 to 1871 (aged 80; Chattanooga, TN, USA)
* December 12 – Arthur Brown, U.S. Senator from Utah from 1896 to 1897 (aged 63; Washington, DC, USA)
* December 22 – Richard S. Rust, abolitionist (aged 91; Cincinnati, OH, USA)
* December 30
** Thomas M. Bowen, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1883 to 1889 (aged 71; Pueblo, CO, USA)
** Donelson Caffery, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1892 to 1901 (aged 71; New Orleans, LA, USA)
==External links==
* 1906 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 13