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News and Events of 1906

World Events

population by decade

Nobel Peace Prize:
Theodore Roosevelt (US)

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Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, locates Magnetic North Pole.
Ethiopia declared independent in a tripartite pact; country is divided into British, French, and Italian spheres of influence.
Finland is the first European country to give women the vote.

President: Theodore Roosevelt
Vice President: Charles W. Fairbanks
Population: 85,450,000

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More than 500 people are killed during the San Francisco earthquake and ensuing three-day fire. Background: Great Disasters
President Roosevelt sails to the Panama Canal Zone. It is the first time a U.S. president has travelled outside the country while in office.

Federal spending:   $0.57 billion
Unemployment:   1.7%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.02

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Chicago White Sox d. Chicago Cubs (4-2)

Montreal Wanderers

Women: Dorothea Douglass d. M. Sutton (6-3 9-7)
Men: Laurie Doherty d. F. Riseley (6-4 4-6 6-2 6-3)

Sir Huon

Princeton (9-0-1)

Nobel Prize for Literature: Giosuè Carducci (Italy)

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Reginald Fessenden invents wireless telephony, a means for radio waves to carry signals a significant distance.
Upton Sinclair exposes the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in The Jungle.

Chemistry: Henri Moissan (France), for isolation of fluorine, and introduction of electric furnace

Physics: Sir Joseph Thomson (UK), for investigations on passage of electricity through gases

Physiology or Medicine: Camillo Golgi (Italy) and Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Spain), for work on structure of the nervous system

English biochemist Frederick Hopkins concludes that vitamins are essential and that a lack of vitamins causes scurvy and rickets.
British geologist and seismologist Richard Dixon Oldham notes that earthquake waves travel more slowly when they pass through the center of the Earth, and suggests that our planet has a dense core.