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Top Song(s)
• Bert Williams - Nobody
• Billy Murray - The Grand Old Rag
• Harry Lauder - Stop Your Tickling Jock
• Harry Tally - Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
• Corrine Morgan - So Long, Mary
Top Film(s)
• The 400 Tricks of the Devil
• The ‘?’ Motorist
• The Haunted House
• The Story of the Kelly Gang
• The Witch
Best Selling Book(s)
• The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
• The Railway Children - E. Nesbit
• Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens - J.M. Barrie
• In the Days of the Comet - H.G. Wells
• The Four Million - O. Henry
Famous Deaths
• January 19 – Bartolome Mitre, Argentine statesman, military figure and author, 6th President of Argentina.
• February 27 – Samuel Langley, American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer.
• March 13 - Susan B. Anthony, American civil rights, women's suffrage activist.
• March 20 – Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, American author of juvenile literature for girls.
• April 19 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• June 25 - Stanford White, American architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed.
• July 1 – Manuel García, Spanish opera singer, music educator and vocal pedagogue.
• October 9 - Joseph Glidden, American inventor (barbed wire) and businessman.
• October 16 – Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States of America.
• October 19 - Charles Pfizer, German-American chemist, co-founder of Pfizer.
Medical/Science/Technology
• The San Francisco earthquake, an estimated 7.9 on the Richter scale and centered on the San Andreas Fault.
• Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior.
• Last death from yellow fever in the Panama Canal Zone following a mosquito eradication program.
• Martha Baer undergoes sex reassignment surgery to become Karl M. Baer in Germany.
• A speech by Alois Alzheimer presents the pathology and clinical symptoms of pre-senile dementia together.
• Bacilli-Calmette-Guerin immunization for tuberculosis first developed.
• Transmission of dengue fever by the Aedes mosquito is confirmed.
• Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, is completed, the first such air conditioned building in the world.
• Lee De Forest files a patent for the Audion vacuum tube, which helps usher in the age of electronics.
• Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast, including a musical recording, a violin solo, and readings.
Political Events
• March 4 – Native American tribal governments are terminated in Indian Territory, to create the US state of Oklahoma.
• March 7 - Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor.
• April 23 – In the Russian Empire, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.
• May 21 - The US and Mexico sign an agreement over distribution of the waters of the Rio Grande.
• May 31 - Assassination attempt on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria of Battenberg in Madrid.
• June 3 - Belgian King Leopold II claims Congo as his private possession.
• June 29 - US Congress pass the Hepburn Act, permitting the regulation of rates.
• June 30 - US Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.
• July 6 – The Second Geneva Convention meets.
• December 30 – The All-India Muslim League is founded as a political party in Dhaka in the British Raj.
National Events
• January 2 - Willis Carrier receives a US patent for the world's first air conditioner.
• January 8 - A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay, kills 20 people.
• February 1 - 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas.
• February 19 - Will Keith Kellogg joins Charles D. Bolin in founding the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, now Kellogg's.
• April 14 – The Azusa Street Revival, the primary catalyst for the revival of Pentecostalism this century, opens in Los Angeles.
• April 18 - San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 while destroying 75% of the city.
• April 22 - New rule puts umpire in sole charge of all game balls.
• May 19 - Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes.
• May 21 - Louis H. Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars.
• May 30 - Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
Worldwide Events
• January 1 - Dutch law makes driver's license mandatory.
• January 22 – The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, Canada, killing over 100.
• January 31 – The Ecuador–Colombia earthquake, and associated tsunami, cause at least 500 deaths.
• February 7 – HMS Dreadnought is launched, sparking a naval race between Britain and Germany.
• June 7 – Cunard liner RMS Lusitania is launched in Glasgow, as the world's largest ship.
• June 26 – The first Grand Prix in automobile racing is the 1906 French Grand Prix held at Le Mans in France.
• August 4 – The first Imperial German Navy submarine, U-1, is launched.
• August 16 – 1906 Valparaiso earthquake: A magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Valparaíso, Chile leaves approx. 20,000 injured.
• November 1 – International Exhibition opens in Christchurch, New Zealand.
• December 15 – The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.