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| 1906 |
| | | Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, created by New Yorker J. Stuart Blackton, introduces the concept of the animated cartoon | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The Cunard company launches the Lusitania on the Clyde as a sister ship to the Mauretania | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The Great Valparaiso Earthquake damages much of central Chile and is felt from Peru to Buenos Aires | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Frank Lloyd Wright builds a Unity Temple for the Unitarians in Oak Park, now a suburb of Chicago | |
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| 1906 |
| | | A large retrospective exhibition in Paris gives Paul Gauguin a growing posthumous reputation | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi, confronted by racial discrimination in South Africa, launches a programme of passive resistance (satyagraha) | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Sergei Diaghilev mounts a major exhibition of Russian art at the Petit Palais in Paris. | |
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| 1906 |
| | | A pediatrician in Vienna, Clemens von Pirquet, describes a condition for which he coins the term 'allergy' | |
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| 1906 |
| | | German physicist Walther Nernst establishes the Third Law of Thermodynamics, dealing with temperatures close to absolute zero | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Ethel Smyth's most successful opera, The Wreckers, is premiered in Leipzig | |
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