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| 1906 |
| | | Charles Pathé opens the first purpose-built luxury cinema, the Omnia-Pathé, in Paris | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The first volume of the inexpensive Everyman's Library is issued by Joseph Dent, a London publisher | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The Naturalization Act provides definitive requirements for naturalization as a US citizen | |
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| 1906 |
| | | E. Nesbit publishes The Railway Children, the most successful of her books featuring the Bastable family | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The Simplon rail tunnel, the longest in the world (20 km), is opened between Switzerland and Italy | |
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| 1906 |
| | | In direct response to Britain's new Dreadnought, Germany increases the production of battleships | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Tsar Nicholas II appoints as prime minister the reformist aristocrat Pyotr Stolypin | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The first Grand Prix of motor-racing is held near Le Mans over a 64-mile course | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Pablo Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein prefigures cubism in its mask-like treatment of her face | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The Pure Food and Drug Act, a landmark initiative in consumer protection, becomes law in the US | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Alfred Dreyfus is reinstated in the army after the French supreme court overturns his conviction for treason | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Belgian physiologists Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou identify Bacillus pertussis, the bacterium causing whooping cough | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Tsar Nicholas II summarily dismisses Russia's new duma when it has been sitting for only three months | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Alfred Dreyfus is awarded the Légion d'Honneur ten days after his conviction has been annulled | |
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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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| 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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