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| 1906 |
| | | 6-year-old Fred Astaire and his sister Adele give their first professional performance, in the pier theatre in Keyport, New Jersey | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Roald Amundsen and his crew are the first to achieve the Northwest Passage, in a journey lasting three years in a 70-ft fishing boat | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The German neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer identifies physical symptoms in the brain of a dead woman who had presenile dementia | |
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| 1906 |
| | | President Roosevelt wins a Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation between Russia and Japan | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The Russian prime minister Pyotr Stolypin introduces land reform | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The Story of the Kelly Gang, produced in Australia, is the first feature-length film, with a running time of nearly an hour | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Transvaal is given the self-governing status promised in the treaty ending the Boer War | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Reginald Fessenden transmits on Christmas Eve, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts, the world's first radio broadcast | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The All-India Muslim League is set up at a meeting of the Muhammadan Educational Conference in Dhaka | |
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| 1906 |
| | | John Galsworthy publishes The Man of Property, the first of his novels chronicling the family of Soames Forsyte | |
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