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1905  Jan 3, Ray Milland (Reginald Truscott-Jones) Academy Award-winning actor: The Lost Weekend [1945], We’re Not Dressing, Star-Spangled Rhythm, Lady in the Dark, Let’s Do It Again, X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes, was born.
 (440 Int'l. 1/3/99)

1905  Jan 5, Representatives of 35 state Audubon organizations incorporated as the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals.
 (T&L, 10/1980, p.12)(MC, 1/5/02)

1905  Jan 9, On what would become known as "Bloody Sunday," Russian Orthodox Father George Gapon led a procession in St. Petersburg of some 200,000 who were marching on the Winter Palace to present their grievances to Czar Nicholas. Troops on the scene panicked, firing into the crowd and killing hundreds, thus igniting the Revolution of 1905. Across Russia, government officials were attacked, peasants seized private estates and workers’ strikes virtually paralyzed the economy. In St. Petersburg, a council (soviet) of workers’ delegates threatened to take over the government.  Nicholas consented to the adoption of a constitution and election of a parliament (Duma). The first Duma met in 1906. [see Jan 22]
 (HNQ, 10/1/00)

1905  Jan 14, Jane Lathrop Stanford drank from a bottle of mineral water at her Nob Hill home in SF and became violently ill. Analysis of the water revealed strychnine. [see Feb 28]
 (Ind, 5/26/01, 5A)

1905  Jan 18, Joseph Bonanno (d.2002), later NYC mafia boss, was born in Castellmare del Golfo, Sicily.
 (SSFC, 5/12/02, p.A23)

1905  Jan 21, Christian Dior, fashion designer (long-skirted look), was born in Normandy, France.
 (MC, 1/21/02)

1905  Jan 22, On what would become known as "Bloody Sunday," Russian Orthodox Father George Gapon led a procession in St. Petersburg of some 200,000 who were marching on the Winter Palace to present their grievances to Czar Nicholas. Troops on the scene panicked, firing into the crowd and killing hundreds, thus igniting the Revolution of 1905. Across Russia, government officials were attacked, peasants seized private estates and workers’ strikes virtually paralyzed the economy. In St. Petersburg, a council (soviet) of workers’ delegates threatened to take over the government.  Nicholas consented to the adoption of a constitution and election of a parliament (Duma). The first Duma met in 1906. [see Jan 9]
 (HN, 1/22/99)(SFC, 9/28/99, p.A27)(HNQ, 10/1/00)

1905  Jan 24, In Vilnius a mass worker strike began and lasted to Jan 29.
 (LHC, 1/24/03)

1905  Jan 25, Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), was found in South Africa.
 (MC, 1/25/02)

1905  Jan 26, Maria Augusta von Trapp, Austrian singer, inspired "Sound of Music," was born.
 (MC, 1/26/02)

1905  Jan 27, Russian General Kuropatkin took the offensive in Manchuria. The Japanese under General Oyama suffered heavy casualties.
 (HN, 1/27/99)

1905  Jan 31, John O'Hara, novelist (Appointment at Samarra), was born in Pottstown, Penn.
 (MC, 1/31/02)

1905  Feb 1, Germany contested French rule in Morocco.
 (HN, 2/1/99)

1905  Feb 2, Ayn Rand (d.1982), writer and social philosopher (Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead), was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her work espoused the political-economic philosophy of Objectivism, capitalism and what she called "rational selfishness." She graduated from the University of Leningrad in 1924 and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming a citizen in 1931. In Objectivism, the individual alone and his acts of self-interest are seen as the positive driving force of society. Rand rejected ideologies of altruism and self-sacrifice. Her novels "Fountainhead" (1943) and "Atlas Shrugged" (1957) and a number of non-fiction works brought wide recognition to her and her theories. Rand founded the journal The Objectivist in 1962. She died in 1982. "Upper classes are a nation’s past; the middle class is its future." "So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money?"
 (AP, 4/30/97)(AP, 5/13/98)(HNPD, 9/27/99)(MC, 2/2/02)

1905  Feb 7, Ulf Svante von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish physiologist, was born.
 (HN, 2/7/01)
1905  Feb 7, Congress granted statehood to Oklahoma. New Mexico and Arizona were the only remaining territories. [see 1907]
 (HN, 2/7/99)
1905  Feb 7, The Dominican Republic signed a treaty turning over customs collection to US.
 (MC, 2/7/02)

1905  Feb 8, A cyclone hit Tahiti and adjacent islands killing some 10,000 people.
 (MC, 2/8/02)

1905  Feb 15, Harold Arlen (d.1986), composer, arranger and pianist, was born as Hyman Arluck. His work included "Stormy Weather" and "It’s Only a Paper Moon." He was born Hyman Arluck, the son of a Jewish cantor. In 1996 Edward Jablonski wrote his second biography titled: "Harold Arlen: Rhythm. Rainbows, and Blues."
 (WSJ, 6/28/96, p.A7)(HN, 2/15/01)(MC, 2/15/02)
1905  Feb 15, The 1st race meet at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark. was run.
 (440 Int’l., 2/15/99)
1905  Feb 15, Lewis Wallace (77), US politician, general, writer (Ben Hur), artist and inventor, died. His paintings included "The Conspirators," a depiction of those accused in the assassination of Pres. Lincoln. He had 8 registered US patents and was accomplished at playing and making violins. His home in Crawfordsville, Indiana, is now a museum.
 (HT, 3/97, p.66)(MC, 2/15/02)

1905  Feb 16, 1st US Esperanto club was organized in Boston. Dr. Lazarus Ludwig Zamenhof (1859-1917), a Polish ophthalmologist, invented the artificial language in 1885.
 (MC, 2/16/02)(SFCM, 6/8/03, p.18)

1905  Feb 21, The Mukden campaign of the Russo-Japanese War, began. In one of the largest battles ever fought up to that time, some 750,000 Japanese and Russian soldiers engaged in the battle for Mukden in the Russo-Japanese War. The three-week battle pitted 400,000 Japanese and 350,000 Russians stretched over a front extending more than 90 miles. More than 100,000 were left dead or injured as the Russians began a retreat toward Harbin on March 9.
 (HN, 2/21/98)(HNQ, 4/23/99)

1905  Feb 23, The Rotary Club was founded in Chicago by lawyer Paul Percy Harris and 3 friends.
 (AP, 2/23/98)(SFC, 9/28/99, p.A27)

1905  Feb 24, Russian Minister of Agriculture, Alexi Yermolov offered the Czar a new constitution.
 (HN, 2/24/98)

1905  Feb 25, Adele Davis, nutritionist, was born.
 (HN, 2/25/01)

1905  Feb 27, Japanese pushed Russians back in Manchuria, and cross the Sha River.
 (HN, 2/27/98)

1905  Feb 28, Jane Lathrop Stanford, the wife of Leland Stanford, died of suspected arsenic poisoning at the Moana Hotel in Honolulu. A coroner’s jury confirmed the result. Her body was returned to the mainland under the care of David Starr Jordan, the president of Stanford Univ. An examination by Stanford physicians claimed no trace of strychnine and set heart attack as cause of death. A will signed 19 months earlier had left the bulk of her $30 million estate to Stanford Univ. [see Jan 14]
 (Ind, 5/26/01, 5A)

1905  Mar 3, US Forest Service formed. President Theodore Roosevelt successfully lobbied Congress to create the Forest Service and appointed Gifford Pinchot, a fellow conservationist, to run the agency. Pinchot had studied forestry in Europe and worked for the U.S. government in various forestry positions since 1896. He stayed with the Forest Service until 1910 and contributed greatly to its early development and national attitudes towards conservation with his enthusiasm. In 1912, he helped former President Roosevelt found the Bull Moose Party. He later went on to serve as governor of Pennsylvania. His autobiography "Breaking New Ground," was published in 1947, a year after his death.
 (WSJ, 2/25/97, p.A22)(HNQ, 4/20/01)(SC, 3/3/02)
1905  Mar 3, The Russian Czar agreed to create an elected assembly.
 (HN, 3/3/99)

1905  Mar 4, The inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt.
  http://condor.stcloudstate.edu/~brixr01/theTIMEMACHINE.html
1905  Mar 4, Gerhart Hauptmann's "Elga" premiered in Berlin.
 (SC, 3/4/02)

1905  Mar 5, Russians began to retreat from Mukden in Manchuria.
 (HN, 3/5/98)

1905  Mar 8, The peasant revolt in Russia was reported to be spreading to Georgia.
 (HN, 3/8/98)

1905  Mar 9, Peter Quennell, biographer, was born.
 (HN, 3/9/01)
1905  Mar 9, Rex Warner, English poet, writer (Wild Goose Chase), was born.
 (MC, 3/9/02)
1905  Mar 9, Archeologists unearthed the royal tombs of Yua and Tua in Egypt.
 (HN, 3/9/98)

1905  Mar 10, Japanese Army captured Mukden, later Shenyang, China.
 (MC, 3/10/02)

1905  Mar 11, The Parisian subway was officially inaugurated.
 (HN, 3/11/98)

1905  Mar 13, Margaretha Zelle made her debut as the oriental dancer "Mata Hari," in Paris.
 (WSJ, 1/16/97, p.A16)

1905  Mar 15, Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg was born. He later attempted to assassinate Hitler.
 (MC, 3/15/02)

1905  Mar 17, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt married her fifth cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt in New York and by 1916, they had become the parents of six children.
 (AP, 3/17/97)(HN, 3/17/98)(HNPD, 10/11/99)

1905  Mar 19, Albert Speer, German architect, minister of Armament (NSDAP), was born.
 (MC, 3/19/02)

1905  Mar 22, Ruth Page, US choreographer, ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion), was born.
 (MC, 3/22/02)

1905  Mar 24, Jules Verne (77), sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), died.
 (MC, 3/24/02)

1905  Mar 25, Rebel battle flags that were captured during the war were returned to the South.
 (HN, 3/24/98)

1905  Mar 26, Viktor Emil Frankl, psychiatrist (Man's Search for Meaning), was born.
 (SS, 3/26/02)

1905  Mar 28, Marlin Perkins, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), was born in Carthage, Mo.
 (MC, 3/28/02)

1905  Mar 29, Annunzio Mantovani, orchestra leader (Mantovani), was born in Venice, Italy.
 (MC, 3/29/02)

1905  Apr 1, US Leather was removed from the Dow Jones. It was succeeded by Central Leather Co. It was one of the nation’s largest shoemakers in the first decades of this century.
 (WSJ, 5/28/96, p.R45)
1905  Apr 1, Berlin and Paris were linked by telephone.
 (HN, 4/1/98)

1905  Apr 2, Kurt Adler, American conductor, was born.
 (HN, 4/2/01)
1905  Apr 2, Serge Lifar, dancer and opera director, was born.
 (HN, 4/2/01)

1905  Apr 6, W. Warrick Cardozo, physician and pioneer researcher on Sickle Cell Anemia, was born.
 (HN, 4/6/99)

1905  Apr 9, J. William Fulbright, U.S. senator from Arkansas, was born. He opposed the Vietnam War.
 (HN, 4/9/99)

1905  Apr 12, Hippodrome arena opened in NYC.
 (MC, 4/12/02)
1905  Apr 12, French Dufaux brothers tested a helicopter.
 (MC, 4/12/02)

1905  Apr 16, A Japanese baseball team from Waseda Univ. in Tokyo came to the West Coast for a 3-month 26-game tour. They played their opening game against Stanford and lost 9-1. Their manager, Prof. Iso Abe, is called the "father of modern baseball in Japan." They won 9 of their 26 games.
 (SFC, 10/31/96, p.C1)

1905  Apr 19, Tom Hopkinson, British writer, was born.
 (HN, 4/1901)

1905  Apr 21, Edmund G "Pat" Brown, (Gov-D-Calif), was born.
 (MC, 4/21/02)

1905  Apr 24, Robert Penn Warren, first U.S. poet laureate, was born.
 (HN, 4/24/98)

1905  May 16, Henry Fonda (d.1982), actor, was born in Grand Is, Nebraska. He starred in "Grapes of Wrath" and "On Golden Pond."
 (HN, 5/16/99)(MC, 5/16/02)

1905  May 24, Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist (And Quiet Flows the Don), was born. He won a Nobel Prize in 1965.
 (HN, 5/24/01)(MC, 5/24/02)

1905  May 25, Binnie Barnes, London, actress (Adventures of Marco Polo, Diamond Jim), was born.
 (SC, 5/25/02)
1905  May 25, Joseph C. Harsch, newscaster (Background), was born in Toledo, OH.
 (SC, 5/25/02)

1905  May 26, There was a pogrom against Jews in Minsk, Belorussia.
 (MC, 5/26/02)

1905  May 27, Japanese fleet destroyed the Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima. [see May 28]
 (MC, 5/27/02)

1905  May 28, A Japanese fleet under Adm. Heihachiro Togo defeated a Russian fleet under Adm. Zinovi Petrovich Rozhdestvenski in the Battle of Tsushima.
 (WSJ, 9/6/00, p.A27)

1905  May 29, Fela Sowande, composer, was born.
 (SC, 5/29/02)
1905  May 29, Jan [Johannes] Teulings, Dutch actor, director (That Joyous Eve), was born.
 (SC, 5/29/02)
1905  May 29, There was a pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk, Lithuania.
 (SC, 5/29/02)
1905  May 29, Leon Francis Victor Caron (55), composer, died.
 (SC, 5/29/02)

1905  Jun 7, Norway dissolved its union with Sweden. It had been in effect since 1814.
 (SC, 6/7/02)

1905  Jun 10, 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation was at Greenville, Me.
 (MC, 6/10/02)
1905  Jun 10, Japan and Russia agreed to peace talks brokered by President Theodore Roosevelt.
 (HN, 6/10/98)

1905  Jun 11, Pennsylvania Railroad debuted the fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs).
 (SC, 6/11/02)

1905  Jun 21, Jean-Paul Sartre (d.1980), French philosopher and existentialist, was born. He won the Nobel Prize in 1964 but declined it. His works include "The Road to Freedom."
 (HN, 6/21/98)(AP, 2/15/00)

1905  Jun 27, The battleship Potemkin succumbed to a mutiny on the Black Sea.
 (HN, 6/27/98)

1905  Jun 29, Russian troops intervened as riots erupt in ports all over the country, leaving many ships looted.
 (HN, 6/29/98)

1905  Jun, In Pittsburgh, Penn., the world's 1st theater geared exclusively for motion pictures opened.
 (SFC, 9/28/99, p.A27)

1905  Jul 2, Jean-Rene Lacoste, tennis champ, alligator shirt designer, was born in France.
 (SC, 7/2/02)

1905  Jul 4, Lionel Trilling (d.1975), literary critic and educator, was born. His work included "The Liberal Imagination" and "Sincerity and Authenticity." He wrote the 1947 novel "Middle of the Journey."
 (WSJ, 6/4/99, p.W15)(HN, 7/4/01)

1905  Jul 7, The International Workers of the World founded their labor organization in Chicago. The IWW was formed by William Haywood of the Western Federation of Miners, Daniel De Leon of the Socialist Labor Party and Eugene V.  Debs of the Socialist Party. Members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) were also known as Wobblies. The Wobblies were formed partly in response to the American Federation of Labor’s opposition to the unionization of unskilled labor. As an organization that advocated sabotage, they were suppressed and prosecuted by the federal government from 1917-18 and were driven underground by the "Red Scare" that started in the United States in 1919.  Ideological disputes with the newly formed U.S. Communist Party dissipated their remaining energies so that they ceased to be a force of any significance past the mid-1920s. In 1969 Melvyn Dublfsky authored its definitive history "We Shall Overcome."
 (HNQ, 10/16/00)(SSFC, 1/7/01, p.A24)(HN, 7/7/01)

1905  Jul 8, The mutinous crew of the battleship Potemkin surrendered to Rumanian authorities.
 (HN, 7/8/98)

1905  Jul 10, Ivie Anderson, jazz singer, was born.
 (HN, 7/10/01)

1905  Jul 19, Boyd Neel, conductor (Story of  an Orch), was born in Blackheath, Kent England.
 (MC, 7/19/02)
1905  Jul 19, Edgar Snow, journalist, was born.
 (HN, 7/19/01)

1905  Jul 22, Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble), was born.
 (MC, 7/22/02)

1905  Jul 25, Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-British novelist, essayist (Nobel 1981), was born.
 (SC, 7/25/02)

1905  Jul 29, Dag Hammerarskjold, Nobel Peace Prize (1961) winning secretary-general of the United Nations (1953-1961), was born in Sweden.
 (HN, 7/29/98)
1905  Jul 29, Stanley Kunitz, poet, was born.
 (HN, 7/29/01)

1905  Aug 3, Maggie Kuhn, social activist and founder of "The Gray Panthers," was born.
 (HN, 8/3/98)

1905  Aug 19, Roald Amundsen and his crew of 6 aboard Gjøe, a converted herring boat, made contact with the US Coast Guard cutter Bear which confirmed their crossing the Northwest Passage following a 26-month journey. Amundsen continued by dogsled to the Yukon while his crew completed their journey at Point Bonita, California, just outside the Golden Gate. Gjøe was returned to Norway in 1972. A commemorative sculpture was left next to the Beach Chalet at Ocean Beach.
 (SFC, 4/17/00, p.D8)(WSJ, 4/18/00, p.A16)(Ind, 4/27/02, 5A)

1905  Aug 20, Jack Teagarden, jazz trombonist, was born.
 (HN, 8/20/00)

1905  Aug 24, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, blues singer, was born. He was a major influence on Elvis Presley.
 (HN, 8/24/00)

1905  Aug 31, Sanford Meisner, influential acting teacher, was born.
 (HN, 8/31/00)

1905  Sep 1, Alberta and Saskatchewan became the 8th and 9th Canadian provinces.
 (HN, 9/1/99)(SC, 9/1/02)

1905  Sep 4, Mary Renault (Mary Challans), author who wrote about her wartime experiences in "The Last of the Wine" and "The King Must Die," was born. She also wrote "Funeral Games."
 (HN, 9/4/98)(MC, 9/4/01)

1905  Sep 5, Arthur Koestler (d.1983), Hungarian novelist and essayist, was born. He wrote about communism in "Darkness at Noon" and "The Ghost in the Machine."
 (HN, 9/5/98)(SFEC, 1/2/00, BR p.5)
1905  Sep 5, The Russian-Japanese War ended as representatives of the combating empires, meeting in New Hampshire, signed the Treaty of Portsmouth. Japan achieved virtually all of its original war aims.
 (AP, 9/5/97)(HN, 9/5/98)

1905  Sep 13, U.S. warships headed to Nicaragua on behalf of American William Albers, who was accused of evading tobacco taxes.
 (HN, 9/13/98)

1905  Sep 18, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Oakland California, actor (Jack Benny Show), was born.
 (MC, 9/18/01)
1905  Sep 18, Greta Garbo, actress nominated for Oscars for her roles in "Anna Christie" and "Ninotchka," was born in Stockholm.
 (HN, 9/18/98)(MC, 9/18/01)

1905  Sep 22, Race riot in Atlanta, Georgia killed 10 blacks and 2 whites.
 (MC, 9/22/01)

1905  Sep 25, Red Smith, sportscaster and columnist, was born in Green Bay Wisc.
 (MC, 9/25/01)

1905  Oct 4, Orville Wright piloted the first flight longer than 30 minutes. The flight lasted 33 minutes, 17 seconds and covered 21 miles.
 (HN, 10/4/98)

1905  Oct 5, Orville and Wilbur Wright's "Flyer III" flew 38.5 km in 38.3 minutes.
 (MC, 10/5/01)

1905  Oct 14, Eugene Fodor, Hungarian-born travel writer, was born.
 (HN, 10/14/00)

1905  Oct 15, Charles P. Snow (d.1980), English novelist (Death Under Sail), was born. He pointed out that the university’s separate worlds have ceased to talk to one another. The "uni" in the university has become meaningless as the institution, possessing more and more power as government funds were pumped into it for research, turned into a loose confederation of disconnected mini-states, instead of an organization devoted to the joint search for knowledge and truth.
 (V.D.-H.K.p.142)(HN, 10/15/00)(MC, 10/15/01)
1905  Oct 15, Claude Debussy's "La Mer," premiered.
 (MC, 10/15/01)
1905  Oct 15, US President Grover Cleveland wrote an article for "Ladies Home Journal", joining others in the US who opposed women voters. The president said, "We all know how much further women go than men in their social rivalries and jealousies... sensible and responsible women do not want to vote."
 (MC, 10/15/01)

1905  Oct 20, A Great General Strike in Russia began and lasted 11 days.
 (MC, 10/20/01)
1905  Oct 20, Russian tsar allowed Polish people to speak Polish.
 (MC, 10/20/01)

1905  Oct 26, Norway signed a treaty of separation with Sweden and chose Prince Charles of Denmark as the new king; he became King Haakon VII.
 (HN, 10/26/98)

1905  Oct 29, Henry Green, novelist, was born. His work included "Living" and "Party Going."
 (HN, 10/29/00)
1905  Oct 29, Hottentot chief Hendrik Witbooi was fatally injured.
 (MC, 10/29/01)

1905  Oct 30, G.B. Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession," premiered in NYC.
 (MC, 10/30/01)
1905  Oct 30, Czar Nicholas II of Russia issued the October Manifesto, granting civil liberties and elections in an attempt to avert the burgeoning support for revolution. Nicholas II also accepted the 1st Duma (Parliament)
 (HN, 10/30/00)(MC, 10/30/01)

1905  Nov 9, Erika Mann, German-US author (Other Germany) and daughter of Thomas Mann, was born.
 (MC, 11/9/01)

1905  Nov 10, Sailors revolted in Kronstadt, Russia.
 (MC, 11/10/01)

1905  Nov 14, David Belasco's "Girl of Golden West," premiered in NYC.
 (MC, 11/14/01)

1905  Nov 18, George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara," premiered in London.
 (MC, 11/18/01)
1905  Nov 18, The Norwegian Parliament elected Prince Charles of Denmark to be the next King of Norway. Prince Charles took the name Haakon VII.
 (HN, 11/18/98)

1905  Nov 19, Tommy Dorsey, orchestra leader (Stage Show, Mahogany), was born in Mahanoy Plane, Pa.
 (MC, 11/19/01)
1905  Nov 19, 100 people drowned in the English Channel as the steamer Hilda sank.
 (HN, 11/19/98)

1905  Nov 22, British, Italian, Russian, French and Austrian-Hungarian fleet attacked the Grecian Isle of Lesbos.
 (MC, 11/22/01)

1905  Nov 25, Jules Massenet's opera "Thais" had its 1st American performance.
 (MC, 11/25/01)

1905  Nov 26, George Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor and playwright (portrayed Charles Dickens), was born.
 (MC, 11/26/01)

1905  Nov 28, Arthur Griffith formed Sinn Fein in Dublin. Sinn Fein is Gaelic for "we ourselves," but also for "ourselves alone." This political party became the unofficial political wing of militant Irish groups in their struggle against British rule.
 (MC, 11/28/01)

1905  Dec 1, Charles Finney, American author (Circus of Dr Lao), was born.
 (MC, 12/1/01)
1905  Dec 1, Twenty officers and 230 guards were arrested in St. Petersburg, Russia for the revolt at the Winter Palace.
 (HN, 12/1/98)

1905  Dec 5, Otto Preminger, director and producer (Laura, Exodus), was born in Austria.
 (MC, 12/5/01)

1905  Dec 7, Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-US astronomer (moons of Uranus, Neptune), was born.
 (MC, 12/7/01)

1905  Dec 9, Richard Strauss' opera "Salome," premiered in Dresden. Soprano Marie Wittich delegated the dance of the seven veils to a member of the corps de ballet.
 (MC, 12/9/01)(WSJ, 10/16/03, p.D8)
1905  Dec 9, The French Assembly National voted for separation of church and state.
 (MC, 12/9/01)(WSJ, 4/25/03, W13)

1905  Dec 16, The US entertainment trade publication Variety came out with its first weekly issue.
 (AP, 12/16/97)

1905  Dec 24, Howard Hughes, American industrialist, film producer, director and aviator, was born.
 (HN, 12/24/98)

1905  Dec 30, Governor Frank Steunenberg of Idaho was killed by an assassin's bomb. The former Gov. of Idaho, was blown up by a booby-trapped gate in front of his home in Caldwell, Idaho. Three Western Federation of Miners leaders in Colorado, Charles Moyer, George Pettibone and William Haywood, were "legally kidnapped" to Idaho and put on trial for the murder. The event and surrounding circumstances were described by J. Anthony Lukas in his 1997 book: "Big Trouble."
 (SFEC, 10/5/97, BR p.1,6)(HN, 12/30/98)

1905  James Burnham (d.1987), political activist and author, was born in Chicago.
 (WSJ, 7/16/02, p.D6)

1905  Harry Harlow (d.1981), psychologist, was born in Fairfield, Iowa.
 (CW, 6/03, p.51)

1905  The Gallery VII Salon d’Automne in France featured the Fauves. It featured works by Matisse, the acknowledged leader, along with Andre Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck and others. Louis Vauxelles described 2 classic marble sculptures as "Donatello chez les fauves" (D. among the wild beasts).
 (WSJ, 12/8/99, p.A20)

1905  The expressionist art group "Die Bruecke" (the Bridge) was formed by German painters that included Erich Heckel and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
 (SSFC, 4/21/02, p.A17)

1905  Matisse painted his "Femme au Chapeau," (Woman with the Hat). It later became part of the Elise S. Haas collection bequeathed to the SFMOMA.
 (SF E&C, 1/15/1995, SFE Mag. p.21)

1905  Picasso painted his "Boy in a Collar." In 1995 it sold for $12.1 mil. He also painted his "Sitting Harlequin." He also painted "Boy with a Pipe" in this Rose Period. The etching "la Toilette de la Mere" was made.
 (WSJ, 11/21/95, p.A-12)(SFC, 3/29/97, p.E1)(SFC, 7/29/99, p.E6)

1905  G. B. Shaw wrote his play, "Man and Superman." It portrays the concept of a comic Mozartian intellectual charming the devils of the underworld, the only place where his Don Juan really feels comfortable. "Major Barbara" was also written.
 (V.D.-H.K.p.237)(WSJ, 1/26/96, A-1)

1905  Sigmund Freud authored his "Three Essays on Sexuality" that misinformed generations about the nature of the female orgasm.
 (NW, 6/30/03, p.44)

1905  Ernst Haeckel published "Wanderbilder," writings and illustrations on biology from his extensive travels.
 (NH, 12/98, p.58)

1905  C. Rawling published "The Great Plateau" [Tibet].
 (NH, 5/96, p.68)

1905  Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, won the Nobel Prize and wrote the third work of his trilogy "With Fire and Sword." It was preceded by "Pan Michael" and "The Deluge." The first 2 books were made into films during the 1960s and 1970s. Filming of the 3rd work began in 1997.
 (SFC,11/18/97, p.E2)(SFC, 7/8/99, p.E3)

1905  Mark Twain wrote his pamphlet "King Leopold’s Soliloquy" in support of reform in the Congo. US Sec. of State Elihu Root was pressured to take action on the Congo.
 (SFEM, 8/16/98, p.11)

1905  Edith Wharton authored her 2nd novel "The House of Mirth."
 (SSFC, 1/14/01, BR p.8)

1905  Booker T. Washington wrote "Tuskegee and Its People."
 (NH, 2/97, p.82)

1905  Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the Chicago Defender newspaper. The paper helped ignite the move of tens of thousands of southern black sharecroppers north to Chicago and other cities. His nephew, John Sengstacke, took over the paper in 1940 and expanded it from a weekly to a daily.
 (SFC, 1/12/98, p.B1)

1905  Mark Sullivan wrote the Collier Mag. expose of the newspapers that lobbied to defeat a patent-medicine truth-in-labeling bill before the Mass. state legislature. The newspapers received tens of millions of dollars in ad revenues from the snake-oil salesmen.
 (WSJ, 12/15/95, p.A-16)

1905  The El Tovar Hotel, designed by Charles Whittlesey, opened at the edge of the Grand Canyon. It was named after Pedro de Tobar, a member of the 1540 Coronado expedition.
 (SFEM, 10/12/97, p.16)

1905  The American Political Science Association held its first meeting.
 (SFC, 8/29/96, p.C2)

1905  The Sons of Daniel Boone was founded by Daniel Beard.
 (HNQ, 7/1/98)

1905  The Stanford-Binet intelligence test was first developed.
 (WSJ, 6/5/97, p.A1)

1905  Bertha Kinsky von Sutner became the first woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. She had founded European pacifist organizations with her husband, Artur,
 (SFEM, 1/25/98, p.28)
1905  Robert Koch (b.1843), German physician, bacteriologist, and medical researcher, won a Nobel Prize in Medicine.
 (HN, 12/11/00)(MC, 12/11/01)

1905  The New York Giants with the help of pitcher Christy Mathewson won the World Series under manager John McGraw.
 (SFC, 9/28/99, p.A27)

1905  The big football game between Stanford and UC Berkeley was banned from San Francisco due to the riots that often followed. 18 football players died nationwide from game injuries in this year.
 (SFEM, 1/30/00, p.14)

1905  The federal government built the Klamath Project, a series of reservoirs and lakes on the California-Oregon border. The Federal Bureau of Reclamation began draining the Klamath Basin to help farmers. The Audubon Society lobbied Pres. Roosevelt to preserve some of the area, a major Pacific flyway for birds, and in 1908 he agreed.
 (SFC, 11/12/96, p.A8)(SFEC, 3/2/97, p.A15)

1905  Teddy Roosevelt established the million-acre Siskiyou Forest Reserve in Oregon.
 (SFEC, 6/20/99, p.T8)

1905  California ceded Yosemite Valley to the federal government.
 (SFC, 12/27/99, p.A10)

1905  W.E.B. Dubois and other black leaders organized the Niagara Movement. it followed the National Citizen’s Rights Association, which was organized by Homer Plessey's lawyer, Albion Tourgee. Tourgee’s biography was written by Otto Olsen: "Carpetbagger’s Crusade: The Life of Albion Winegar Tourgee."
 (SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-6)

1905  In Denver Sarah Breedlove (Madame C.J. Walker) began selling in earnest her own Wonderful Hair Grower product. She settled the company in Indianapolis in 1910 and incorporated it in 1911. In 1912 she forced her way to the podium to address the National Negro Business League at its annual meeting, even though Booker T. Washington refused to recognize her.
 (SFEM, 8/23/98, p.30)

1905  Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, gave the Lincoln Life Insurance Co. the right to use the family name.
 (DFP, 7/28/96, p.J5)

1905  Senior executives of Equitable Life Insurance attempted to displace James Hyde, son of founder Henry Hyde, from leadership. In 2003 Patricia Beard authored "After the Ball," an account of the affair.
 (WSJ, 8/1/03, p.W10)

1905  Charles Evans Hughes supervised a New York state investigation into the insurance industry.
 (WSJ, 8/1/03, p.W10)

1905  The Hearst Corp. acquired Cosmopolitan magazine.
 (SFC, 8/7/99, p.A9)

1905  The National Steel and Ship building Company (NASSCO) in San Diego was founded as a small machine shop. In 1997 the employee-owned company encompassed 147 acres with a work force of 5,000 for ship design, construction and repair.
 (IBCC, 10/97, #9)

1905  Standard Rope & Twine Co. collapsed. It was succeeded by Standard Cordage Co.
 (WSJ, 5/28/96, p.R46)

1905  The Sonoma Brewing Company was established in Sonoma, Ca.
 (SFEM,7/28/96, p.25)

1905  Wells Fargo fell under the control of Edward Harriman, a railroad entrepreneur, who moves its headquarters to NYC and merged with Nevada National Bank.
 (SFC, 6/9/98, p.A10)

1905  Some automakers introduced motor trucks and ignition locks; and auto plants were opened in Canada.
 (WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)

1905  Winton Motors acquired Cleveland Cap Screw Co., which became the subsidiary Electric Welding Co.
 (F, 10/7/96, p.67)

1905  The R.T. Davis Milling Co. began making an Aunt Jemima rag doll set that included Aunt Jemima, her husband Uncle Mose, and children Wade and Diana.
 (SFC,10/22/97, Z1 p.7)

1905  Einstein presented his theory of relativity declaring that the very measurement of time intervals is affected by the motion of the observer. He proposed that light is itself quantized, or particle-like, to explain how electrons were emitted when light hit certain metals. He presented four papers, the first on Brownian motion, the second was on the composition of light, the third proposed the Special Theory of Relativity, and the fourth established the equivalence of mass and energy.
 (NG, March 1990, J. Boslough p. 118), (NG, May 1985, J. Boslough, p. 642), (V.D.-H.K.p.325-326)

1905  Sylanus Bowser modified his 1885 kerosene pump into a self-regulating gasoline pump.
 (SFEC, 10/10/99, Z1 p.6)

1905  Gustav Carlson invented plywood.
 (SFC, 8/28/99, p.B3)

1905  A Mayo Clinic researcher found that analyzing quick-frozen tissue could tell surgeons whether a growth is cancerous while the patient was still on the operating table.
 (SFC, 7/5/96, PM, p.5)

1905  Nettie Stevens, geneticist, showed that sex was associated with the X chromosome.
 (NH, 6/01, p.32)

1905  H.F. Osborn, noted dinosaur expert, first identified fossils of Tyrannosaurus rex.
 (SFME, 5/7/95, P.13)(WSJ, 9/13/96, p.A8)

1905  Pete Aguereberry discovered gold in Death Valley and worked his Eureka Mine for 40 years.
 (SSFC, 1/19/03, p.C5)

1905  The Salton Sea in southern California was formed by a broken Colorado River diversion dyke. Prior to this time it had been called the Salton Sink. It flowed unimpeded for the next 15 months.
 (AAM, 3/96, p.87)(SFC, 7/7/96, zone 1 p.5)(SSFC, 12/9/01, p.A22)

1905  In Argentina Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Longabaugh, known as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, held up a bank in Santa Cruz province.
 (SFC, 1/19/98, p.A10)

1905  Kaiser Wilhelm II organized a trans-Atlantic yacht race that was won by Charlie Barr, skipper of the Atlantic. His record crossing was 12 days 4 hrs and 1 min. Scott Cookman in 2002 authored "Atlantic: The Last Great Race of Princes."
 (WSJ, 5/3/02, p.W12)

1905  In Mexico Pres. Diaz and his finance minister, Jose Limantour, set a silver-gold parity of 32:1, that proved to be a deflationary mistake on the eve of revolution.
 (WSJ, 8/13/97, p.A12)

1905  Norway established independence from Denmark after 400 years of servitude. (Fresno Bee, 11/29/94)

1905  Russia attacked Japan but was easily defeated. [see May 28]
 (V.D.-H.K.p.286)

1905  Revolution broke out in Russia and nationalist feelings ignited in the Baltic states.
 (Compuserve, Online Encyclopedia)

1905  Over 1 million Russians staged a general strike demanding political reforms.
 (WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R25)

1905  In Europe Jean Lanfray, a Swiss laborer, murdered his wife and children after drinking 2 glasses of absinthe.
 (SFC, 3/24/00, p.A3)

1905  Adolph Menzel (b.1815), German painter, died. He combined elements of many styles and was considered the greatest artist in Germany at the time and was Prussia’s foremost historical artist. He was considered Germany’s French Impressionist.
 (WSJ, 10/8/96, p.A20)(WSJ, 7/16/98, p.A16)

1905-1956 Margaret Lee Runbeck, American author: "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
 (AP, 11/8/99)

1905-1961  Dag Hammarskjöld, U.N. Secretary-General: "A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth."
 (AP, 8/6/98)

1905-1967 Patrick Kavanaugh, Irish poet, author of "Raglan Road," which Joan Osborne later put to the music of the song "At the Dawning of the Day."
 (WSJ, 3/17/99, p.A24)

1905-1970 John Henry O'Hara, journalist, novelist and short story writer. Prof. Frank MacShane (d.1999) later authored a biography on O'Hara.
 (WUD, 1994, p.1001)(SFC, 11/18/99, p.C8)

1905-1974 Jane Ace, American radio personality: "I'm a ragged individualist."
 (AP, 10/22/99)

1905-1975  Ivy Baker Priest, former U.S. treasurer Thought for Today: "We seldom stop to think how many peoples’ lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed."
 (AP, 6/16/98)

1905-1978  Ilka Chase, author, actress and humorist: "You can always spot a well-informed man—his views are the same as yours."
 (AP, 12/23/97)

1905-1978  Phyllis McGinley, American poet and author: "Time is the thief you cannot banish." "God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness. It seems to me the rarest of virtues." "History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art."
 (AP, 12/22/97)(AP, 5/9/98)(AP, 10/24/98)

1905-1979 Barnett Newman, New York painter. Late in his life he began making abstract sculpture. His last piece was called "Zim Zum I" (1969).
 (SFC, 6/5/98, p.A17)

1905-1988 Kurt Herbert Adler, Austrian-born conductor: "Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right."
 (AP, 8/25/99)

1905-1989  Robert Penn Warren, American author, poet and critic: "What is man but his passion?"
 (AP, 2/18/98)

1905-1995  Hobby, Oveta Culp, U.S. public official and publisher; b. Killeen, Tex.  She was (1943-45) the first director of the Women’s Army Corps and served (1953-55) as the first secretary of the Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare. She was editor (1952-53, 1955-83), president (1955-65) and (1965-83) chairman of the board of the Houston Post.
 (HNQ, 8/18/99)

1906  Jan 7, Harry Houdini’s fame as the "King of Handcuffs" was assured when he escaped from the Washington, D.C., jail cell of President James Garfield’s assassin, Charles Guiteau. For the next 20 years, Houdini astounded worldwide audiences with illusions such as the "Upside-Down Water Torture Cell" and straitjacket escapes. Houdini died on October 31, 1926.
 (HN, 3/24/98)(HNPD, 3/24/00)

1906  Jan 11, Albert Hoffmann, Switzerland, chemist (discovered LSD in 1943), was born.
 (MC, 1/11/02)

1906  Jan 12, The Dow Jones Industrial average surged over 100 for the first time.
 (WSJ, 2/26/96, p.C-1)
1906  Jan 12, Henny Youngman (d.1998), comedian, was born in London.
 (SFC, 2/25/98, p.C2)

1906  Jan 15, Aristotle Onassis, Greek tycoon, who married Jackie Kennedy, was born.
 (HN, 1/15/99)

1906  Jan 22, Willa Brown-Chappell, pioneering aviator, was born.
 (HN, 1/22/99)

1906  Jan 25, Major Gen. Joseph Wheeler II (70), Confederate, US General, died. He led a cavalry division in the Battle of San Juan Hill in 1898. As a Confederate brigadier and then major general, "Fightin’ Joe" Wheeler commanded the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Mississippi and, later, the Army of Tennessee. Captured in May 1865, he went on to have a prosperous postwar life, serving as a U.S. congressman for eight terms. After his Spanish-American War service, Wheeler retired from the army as a brigadier general of U.S. Regulars. He was interred in Arlington National Cemetery.
 (HNQ, 2/13/02)(MC, 1/25/02)

1906  Jan, The steamer Valencia from SF ran aground at bluffs on the west side of Vancouver Island. Many of the passengers and crew made it to shore, but none of the 126 survived due to exposure.
 (SSFC, 3/3/02, p.C8)

1906  Feb 1, 1st federal penitentiary building completed in Leavenworth, Kansas.
 (MC, 2/1/02)

1906  Feb 2, A Papal encyclical denounced the separation of church & state.
 (MC, 2/2/02)

1906  Feb 4, Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer who discovered Pluto, was born.
 (HN, 2/4/01)
1906  Feb 4, Dietrich Bonhoeffer (d.1945), German Protestant theologian, was born. "If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction."
 (AP, 8/27/00)(HN, 2/4/01)
1906  Feb 4, The New York Police Department began finger print identification.
 (HN, 2/4/99)

1906  Feb 7, Aisingyoro Henry Puyi, the last emperor of China, was born.
 (SFC, 6/11/97, p.C16)

1906  Feb 8, Chester F. Carlson, physicist, was born. He invented xerography, the electrostatic dry-copy process.
 (HN, 2/8/01)
1906  Feb 8, Henry Roth, writer, was born. His work included "Call it Sleep."
 (HN, 2/8/01)

1906  Feb 9, Natal proclaimed a state of siege in Zulu uprising.
 (MC, 2/9/02)

1906  Feb 10, Britain's 1st modern and largest battleship, the "HMS Dreadnought," was launched.
 (MC, 2/10/02)

1906  Feb 15, British Labour Party organized.
 (MC, 2/15/02)

1906  Feb 17, Alice Lee Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt's irrepressible eldest daughter, married Congressman Nicholas Longworth of Ohio in an elaborate White House ceremony. Heedless of social convention, Alice's behavior routinely shocked her family and friends. Once the president, when confronted with another of Alice's escapades, remarked, "I can do one of two things, I can run the country or control Alice. I cannot do both." Nevertheless, the world public was captivated with the first daughter, who seemed to embody the ideal Gay Nineties woman. In spite of its promising beginning, Alice's 25-year marriage to Longworth was not a happy one, but Alice reigned as the grande dame of Washington, D.C. society for another 50 years.
 (HNPD, 2/16/99)

1906  Feb 19, W.K. Kellogg & Ch Bolin started the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co. Kellog spent 2/3 of the company budget to advertise Corn Flakes.
 (SFC, 11/16/96, p.E4)(MC, 2/19/02)

1906  Feb 20, Russian troops seized large portions of Mongolia.
 (HN, 2/20/98)

1906  Feb 23, Johann Hoch, US murderer, was executed.
 (MC, 2/23/02)

1906  Feb 28, Bugsy Siegel, gangster who created casinos in Las Vegas, was born.
 (MC, 2/28/02)

1906  Mar 3, Vuia I aircraft, built by Romanian Traja Vuia, was tested in France.
 (SC, 3/3/02)

1906  Mar 7, Finland became the first country to give women the right to vote, decreeing universal suffrage for all citizens over 24, however, barring those persons who were supported by the state. [see Mar 15, 1907]
 (HN, 3/7/98)

1906  Mar 10, 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Sonatine."
 (MC, 3/10/02)
1906  Mar 10, London Underground opened Bakerloo line from Baker Street to Waterloo Line.
 (MC, 3/10/02)
1906  Mar 10, A coal dust explosion killed 1,060 at Courrieres, France.
 (MC, 3/10/02)

1906  Mar 13, Susan B. Anthony (b.1820), abolitionist and advocate of black suffrage as well as the rights of women to vote, died. Eleanor Roosevelt suggested that Susan B. Anthony should be added to the four faces of Mount Rushmore.  Eleanor Roosevelt later suggested that social reformer and woman suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony should be included with the images of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, but her suggestion was not accepted.
 (AP, 3/13/99)(HNQ, 4/17/00)

1906  Mar 17, President Theodore Roosevelt used the term "muckrake" in a speech to the Gridiron Club in Washington, D.C.
 (AP, 3/17/97)

1906  Mar 18, Roy L. Johnson, US admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean), was born.
 (MC, 3/18/02)

1906  Mar 19, Adolf Eichmann, Nazi Gestapo officer, was born. He was captured in Argentina and put on trial in Israel.
 (HN, 3/19/99)
1906  Mar 19, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's "Quattro Rusteghi," premiered in Munich.
 (MC, 3/19/02)

1906  Mar 20, George B. Shaw's "Captain Brassbound's Conversion," premiered in London.
 (MC, 3/20/02)
1906  Mar 20, Army officers in Russia mutinied at Sevastopol.
 (HN, 3/20/98)

1906  Mar 21, John D. Rockefeller III, billionaire philanthropist (oil), was born.
 (MC, 3/21/02)
1906  Mar 21, Ohio passed a law that prohibited hazing by fraternities.
 (HN, 3/21/98)

1906  Mar 24, "Census of the British Empire" showed England ruled 1/5 of the world.
 (MC, 3/24/02)

1906  Mar 25, Alan John Percivale Taylor, English historian, was born. He pioneered the presentation of the history lecture on British television.
 (HN, 3/25/99)
1906  Mar 25, Jean Sablon, French crooner, was born.
 (MC, 3/25/02)

1906  Mar 29, E. Power Biggs, organist, composer (CBS), was born in Westcliff-on-Sea, England.
 (MC, 3/29/02)

1906  Mar 31, G.B. Shaw's German version of "Caesar and Cleopatra," premiered in Berlin.
 (MC, 3/31/02)

1906  Apr 4, John Cameron Swayze, newscaster (Timex, Hindenburg), was born in Wichita, Ks.
 (MC, 4/4/02)

1906  Apr 6, John Betjeman, English Poet Laureate 1972-1984 (Mount Zion), was born.
 (MC, 4/6/02)
1906  Apr 6, 1st animated cartoon was copyrighted.
 (MC, 4/6/02)

1906  Apr 9, The third modern Olympic games opened in Athens.
 (HN, 4/9/98)

1906  Apr 11, Einstein introduced his Theory of Relativity. [see 1905]
 (MC, 4/11/02)
1906  Apr 11, James A. Bailey (58), circus showman (Barnum & Bailey), died.
 (MC, 4/11/02)

1906  Apr 13, Samuel Beckett (d.1989), Irish (French) novelist-playwright, Nobel Prize winner in 1969, (Waiting for Godot), was born. He settled in France and wrote in French and then translated to English. Sometimes he reversed the process. His work included "Act Without Words" (1956), "Happy Days" (1960-61), "Rough for Theater II" (1976), "Catastrophe" (1982) and "What’s There" (1983). Also the prose trilogy "Molloy," "Malone Dies" and "The Unnamable." In 1996 James Knowlson wrote his study of Beckett: "Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett." "We are all born mad. Some of us remain so."
 (V.D.-H.K.p.369)(SFEC, 10/27/96, BR p.5)(HN, 4/13/98)(AP, 10/3/98)
1906  Apr 13, There was a mutiny on the Portuguese battleships Dom Carlos and Vasco da Gama.
 (MC, 4/13/02)

1906  Apr 17, Daniel Burnham, Chicago architect, presented his design plans for San Francisco modeled on the Parisian plans by Baron Georges-Eugene Haussman.
 (SFC, 4/14/96, EM, p.20)

1906  Apr 18, 5:12 a.m. the San Francisco 8.2 earthquake occurred.  Seismologists in 1977 reduced the magnitude to 7.9. 28,000 buildings were destroyed and 498 blocks leveled. One quarter of the city burned. About 700 people died. The massive earthquake was felt from Oregon to Los Angeles and as far inland as Nevada. It caused severe damage and loss of life in the San Francisco Bay area, and a three-day fire spawned by the shaking reduced 4.7 square miles of the city to blackened ruins. Military officials estimated $400 million of damage and a total of 700-800 killed. Modern research estimates that closer to 3,000 of San Francisco's 400,000 inhabitants lost their lives. Sweeney Observatory in Goldengate Park was destroyed. Some 30,000 people were left homeless and lived in GG Park for up to a year and a half. The quake was centered in Olema. Old City Hall at Fulton and Larkin was destroyed. In 2001 Dan Kurzman authored "Disaster: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906."
 (SFC, 4/4/96, p.A-106)(SFC, 4/8/96, p.A-1)(SFC, 4/14/96, p.Z1, p.3)(AP, 4/18/97)(SFC, 7/29/97, p.A5,7)(SFEC, 3/8/98, p.W31)(SFC, 1/1/99, p.A13) (HNPD, 4/18/99)(SFC, 4/22/01, BR p.3)(SFC, 2/15/02, p.G8)
1906  Apr 18, The earthquake killed 119 people at Agnews State Hospital in San Jose.
 (SFC, 9/29/97, p.A21)

1906  Apr 19, Pierre Curie, French physicist, chemist (Nobel 1903), died. Curie,  was hit by a truck and killed as he crossed a street in Paris.
 (ON, 3/00, p.2)(MC, 4/19/02)

1906  Apr 22, A new baseball rule put the umpire in sole charge of all game balls.
 (MC, 4/22/02)

1906  Apr 23, Maria Arnoldo, [Adrianus Broeders], photographer, writer, was born.
 (MC, 4/23/02)

1906  Apr 24, William Joyce was born. He was the British traitor, who during World War II gave anti-British broadcasts known as 'Lord Haw-Haw.'
 (HN, 4/24/99)

1906  Apr 25, William Joseph Brennan Jr., future Supreme Court Justice (1956-90), was born in Newark, New Jersey.
 (SFC, 7/25/97, p.A8)(SS, 4/25/02)
1906  Apr 25, J.H. Metcalf discovered asteroid #599: Luisa.
 (SS, 4/25/02)

1906  Apr 26, Gracie Allen (Mrs. George Burns), comedienne (George Burns Show), was born.
 (MC, 4/26/02)

1906  Apr 28, Bartholomeus J "Bart" Bok, Dutch-US astronomer (Milky Way), was born.
 (MC, 4/28/02)

1906  May 8, Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director, was born.
 (HN, 5/7/02)

1906  May 10, Russia's Duma (Parliament) met for the 1st time.
 (MC, 5/10/02)

1906  May 19, The Federated Boys’ Clubs, the forerunner of the Boys’ Clubs of  America, were organized.
 (AP, 5/19/97)(DTnet, 5/19/97)

1906  May 22, Orville and Wilbur Wright were awarded U.S. Patent 821,393 for "new and useful improvement in Flying Machines." They had hired a patent attorney to refine their 1903 application. The first successful powered flight of the Wright Flyer took place on December 17, 1903.
 (HNQ, 3/19/01)

1906  May 29, Terence Hanbury White (T.H. White), novelist (The Sword in the Stone, England Have My Bones), was born in Bombay, India.
 (HN, 5/29/01)(SC, 5/29/02)

1906  Jun 3, Josephine Baker, dancer, singer, Parisian nightclub owner, was born to an Indian and African mother and a Creole father in St. Louis. She was a talented singer and dancer who got her show business start with the Dixie Steppers vaudeville troupe and was the first black, female American entertainer to achieve international stardom. She left home at 13 to tour on the southern vaudeville circuit, later appeared on Broadway and was noted in New York as a comedienne. Frustrated by the racism she encountered in her homeland, Baker moved to France in 1925 and joined the Folies Bergere. Her sensuous performances with La Revue Negre earned her rave reviews and admiring fans. She returned to America in 1935 after 10 years in France only to find that racial barriers still prevented her from attaining the same status she enjoyed in Europe. She appeared in New York's Ziegfeld Follies but, when she did not achieve any success there she returned to France, became a citizen, and married a Frenchman. During World War II, Baker became active in undercover work for the French Resistance movement. She later adopted twelve orphans from around the world, calling them her "Rainbow Tribe." Josephine Baker died in France in 1975 and was buried in Paris with full military honors.
 (HNQ, 6/3/98)(HN, 6/3/98)(HNQ, 12/28/98)

1906  Jun 14, Margaret Bourke-White, American photojournalist, was born.
 (HN, 6/14/01)

1906  Jun 19, Earl Bascom (rodeo showman and inventor: first side-delivery rodeo chute, first hornless bronc saddle, first one-handed bareback rigging), was born.
 (MC, 6/19/02)

1906  Jun 22, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author, wife of Charles Lindbergh (Gifts from the Sea), was born.
 (HN, 6/22/01)
1906  Jun 22, Billy Wilder, movie director, was born. He directed "The Lost Weekend" and "The Apartment" and won an Oscar for "Stalag 17."
 (HN, 6/22/99)

1906  Jun 24, Pierre Fournier, cellist (Paris Conservatoire), was born in Paris, France.
 (MC, 6/24/02)

1906  Jun 25, A love triangle came to a violent end atop New York's Madison Square Garden as architect Stanford White, the building's designer, was shot to death by Harry Thaw, for an alleged tryst White had with Thaw's wife, Florence Evelyn Nesbit.
 (AP, 6/25/97)(HN, 6/25/99)

1906  Jun 26, Ferenc Szisz won the first French Grand Prix. Szisz won the race in a 13 liter, 90 horsepower Renault.  The car was not particularly powerful compared to other cars in the race, but it did have the important advantage of removable tire-carrying rims. The removable rims meant tire changes took a speedy four minutes compared to the regular 15 minutes required with fixed rim tires. Szisz finished a little over a half hour ahead of the second-place car.
 (HNQ, 7/25/00)(AHDD, p.26)

1907  Jun 27, Valerie Cossart, actress (The Hartmans), was born in London.
 (SC, 6/27/02)
1907  Jun 27, John McIntire, actor (Naked City, Wagon Train, Virginian), was born in Spokane, Wash.
 (SC, 6/27/02)

1906   Jun 28, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was born.
 (HN, 6/28/01)

1906  Jun 30, The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act became law.
 (HFA, '96, p.32)(AP, 6/29/99)

1906  Jul 2, Hans Bethe, physicist (Nobel 1967), peace worker, was born.
 (SC, 7/2/02)

1906  Jul 3, George Sanders, actor (All About Eve-Academy Award 1950), was born in Russia.
 (MC, 7/3/02)

1906  Jul 4, Great Britain, France & Italy granted independence to Ethiopia.
 (Maggio, 98)

1906  Jul 7, Leroy "Satchel" Page, baseball pitcher for the Negro Leagues and the Major League, was born.
 (HN, 7/7/98)

1906  Jul 8, Philip C. Johnson, architect, was born.
 (HN, 7/8/01)

1906  Jul 12, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus was found innocent in France of his earlier court-martial for spying for Germany.
 (MC, 7/12/02)(PC, 1992, p.664)

1906  Jul 14, Tom Carvel, ice cream mogul (Carvels), was born.
 (MC, 7/14/02)

1906  Jul 15, Richard W. Armour, humorist, author of "Twisted Tales from Shakespeare," was born.
 (HN, 7/15/98)

1906  Jul 18, S.I. Hayakawa, (Sen-R-CA), educator (Language in Action), was born.
 (MC, 7/18/02)
1906  Jul 18, Clifford Odets, playwright (Waiting for Lefty), was born.
 (HN, 7/18/01)

1906  Jul 23, Marston Bates, American zoologist and author of "The Nature of Natural History," was born.
 (HN, 7/23/98)
1906  Jul 23, Pogroms took place against Jews in Odessa.
 (MC, 7/23/02)

1906  Jul 27, Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager, was born.
 (HN, 7/27/98)

1906  Aug 5, John Houston, film director of such movies as "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and "The Maltese Falcon," was born in Nevada, Mo.
 (HN, 8/5/98)(MC, 8/5/02)

1906  Aug 7, In North Carolina, a mob defies a court order and lynches three African Americans which becomes known as "The Lyerly Murders."
 (HN, 8/7/99)

1906  Aug 11, In France, Eugene Lauste received the first patent for a talking film.
 (HN, 8/10/98)

1906  Aug 13, At Fort Brown, Texas, some 10-20 armed men engaged an all-Black Army unit in a shooting rampage that left one townsperson dead and a police officer wounded. A 1910 inquiry placed guilt on the soldiers and Pres. Roosevelt ordered all 167 discharged without honor. In 1970 John Weaver (d.2002) authored "The Brownsville Raid," an account of the incident that led the Army to exonerate all 167 men.
 (SFC, 12/7/02, p.A25)

1906  Aug 16, An magnitude 8.6 earthquake in Valparaiso, Chile, left an estimated 20,000 people dead.
 (SFEC, 6/13/99, Z1 p.5)(AP, 6/22/02)

1906  Aug 26, Christopher Isherwood, English novelist and playwright, was born. He wrote "Goodbye to Berlin" (Berlin Stories), the inspiration for the play "I am a Camera" and the musical and film "Cabaret." [1904 also given as birth year]
 (WUD, 1994 p.755)(HN, 8/26/00)
1906  Aug 26, Albert Bruce Sabin, U.S. virologist, born in Poland. In 1955, he developed an oral vaccine against polio.
 (RTH, 8/26/99)

1906  Aug 28, John Betjeman, poet laureate of England (Mt Zion), was born.
 (MC, 8/28/01)

1906  Sep 1, Papua was placed under Australian administration.
 (SC, 9/1/02)

1906  Sep 2, Giuseppe Giacosa (b.1847), Italian songwriter (libretti opera Puccini), died.
 (MC, 9/2/01)

1906  Sep 8, Robert Turner invented the automatic typewriter return carriage.
 (HN, 9/8/98)

1906  Sep 11, Mohandas Gandhi addressed a meeting in Johannesburg on social protest  against the Asiatic Law Amendment, a new law by the province of Transvaal that made it compulsory for all Indians over age 8 to register with the government and carry ID cards. In the India Opinion he published articles on what he called Satyagraha (Truth Force): "the vindication of truth not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but on one's self."
 (ON, 9/03, p.1)

1906  Sep 12, Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, St Petersburg Russia, composer, was born. [see Sep 25]
 (MC, 9/12/01)

1906  Sep 19, Addressing the annual dinner of The Associated Press in New York, Mark Twain said there were "only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe ... the sun in the heavens and The Associated Press down here."
 (AP, 9/19/00)

1906  Sep 22, Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia, killed 21 people. In 2001 Mark Bauerlein authored "Negrophobia," an account of the riots.
 (HN, 9/22/98)(WSJ, 6/12/01, p.A20)

1906  Sep 24, Victor Herbert's  musical "Red Mill," premiered in NYC.
 (MC, 9/24/01)
1906  Sep 24, The First US National Monument, Devils Tower, was designated by President Theodore Roosevelt. Devils Tower is a volcanic rock formation, rising 865 feet over a base of gray igneous rock at 1,700 feet, located in the Black Hills of Wyoming.
 (MC, 9/24/01)

1906  Sep 25, Dimitri Shostakovich (d.1975), Soviet composer who wrote 15 symphonies, was born. His work included the Violin Concerto No. 2. [see Sep 12]
 (WUD, 1994, p.1320)(SFC, 1/30/98, p.E5)(HN, 9/25/98)

1906  Sep 28, US troops reoccupied Cuba. They stayed until 1909.
 (MC, 9/28/01)

1906  Oct 3, The first conference on wireless telegraphy in Berlin adopted SOS as warning signal.
 (HN, 10/3/98)

1906  Oct 6, Janet Gaynor, film actress, was born.
 (HN, 10/6/00)

1906  Oct 8, Karl Ludwig Nessler first demonstrated a machine in London that put permanent waves in hair. The client wore a dozen brass curlers, each weighing two pounds, for the six-hour process.
 (HN, 10/8/00)

1906  Oct 9, Joseph F. Glidden, inventor (barbed wire), died.
 (MC, 10/9/01)

1906  Oct 11, The San Francisco school board ordered the segregation of Oriental schoolchildren, inciting Japanese outrage.
 (HN, 10/11/98)

1906  Oct 14, Hannah Arendt, historian (Origins of Totalitarianism), was born in Germany.
 (MC, 10/14/01)
1906  Oct 14, Paul Cezanne (b.1839), French painter, died at 67. [see Oct 22]
 (SFC, 5/27/96, p.B8)(MC, 10/14/01)

1906  Oct 16, Cleanth Brooks, Kentucky-born writer and educator, was born.
 (HN, 10/16/00)

1906  Oct 18, James Brooks, US mural painter (Acquisition of Long Island), was born.
 (MC, 10/18/01)

1906  Oct 20, Dr. Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube).
 (MC, 10/20/01)

1906  Oct 22, Sidney Kingsley, US playwright (One in White, Darkness at Noon), was born.
 (MC, 10/22/01)
1906  Oct 22, 3000 blacks demonstrated and rioted in Philadelphia.
 (MC, 10/22/01)
1906  Oct 22, Paul Cezanne (67), French painter, died. [see Oct 14]
 (MC, 10/22/01)

1906  Oct 23, Gertrude Ederle, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1924), was born in NYC.
 (MC, 10/23/01)

1906  Oct 25, US inventor Lee de Forest patented the "Audion," a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio and broadcasting.
 (MC, 10/25/01)

1906  Oct 25, The Peter Iredale, a British 278-foot 4-mast bark, wrecked on Clatsop Beach, but the whole crew survived. The only enemy shell to strike Oregon soil during WW II landed near the wreck.
 (PC, Smith-Western)

1906  Oct 31, Louise Talma, composer (Summer Sounds), was born in Arcachon, France.
 (MC, 10/31/01)
1906  Oct 31, George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar & Cleopatra," premiered in NYC.
 (MC, 10/31/01)

1906  Nov 2, Luchino Visconti, film director, was born in Milan, Italy. His work included "Obsession" and "Death in Venice."
 (HN, 11/2/00)(MC, 11/2/01)

1906  Nov 6, Republican Charles Evans Hughes was elected governor of New York, defeating newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst.
 (AP, 11/6/99)

1906  Nov 9, President Theodore Roosevelt left Washington D.C. for a 17 day trip to Panama and Puerto Rico, becoming the first president to make an official visit outside of the U.S.
 (HN, 11/9/98)
1906  Nov 9, Arthur Rudolph, Nazi-turned-American rocket engineer, was born.
 (MC, 11/9/01)

1906  Nov 14, Louise Brooks, silent film star, was born. She became a symbol of the 1920s flapper.
 (HN, 11/14/00)

1906  Nov 15, Curtis E. Le May, air force general and VP candidate, was born.
 (MC, 11/15/01)

1906  Nov 17, Soichiro Honda, founder and CEO of Honda Motor Co., was born in Japan.
 (MC, 11/17/01)

1906  Nov 18, Anarchists bombed Rome’s St. Peter’s Cathedral.
 (HN, 11/18/98)

1906  Nov 20, George Bernard Shaw's "Doctor's Dilemma," premiered in London.
 (MC, 11/20/01)

1906  Nov 21, In San Juan, President Theodore Roosevelt pledged citizenship for Puerto Rican people.
 (HN, 11/21/98)
1906  Nov 21, China prohibited opium trade.
 (MC, 11/21/01)

1906  Nov 22, The "S-O-S" distress signal was adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.
 (AP, 11/22/97)

1906  Nov 28, Philadelphia Jack O’Brien and Tommy Burns fought to no decision in a 20-round draw in a world heavyweight title bout in Los Angeles.
 (DTnet, 11/28/97)

1906  Nov 30, President Theodore Roosevelt publicly denounced segregation of Japanese school children in San Francisco.
 (HN, 11/30/98)

1906  Dec 2, Peter Carl Goldmark, engineer, was born. He developed the first commercial color television and the long-playing phonograph record.
 (HN, 12/2/00)

1906  Dec 3, The U.S. Supreme Court ordered Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) leaders extradited to Idaho for trial in the Steunenberg murder case.
 (HN, 12/3/98)

1906  Dec 6, Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge flew a powered, man-carrying kite that carried him 168 feet in the air for seven minutes at Baddeck, Nova Scotia.
 (HN, 12/6/98)

1906  Dec 8, Richard Llewellyn, author (How Green Was My Valley), was born.
 (HN, 12/8/00)

1906  Dec 9, Grace Hopper, mathematician and computer pioneer, was born.
 (HN, 12/9/00)

1906  Dec 10, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War. This was the first Nobel Peace Prize.
 (AP, 12/10/97)(SFC, 9/29/99, p.C3)

1906  Dec 14, First U1 submarine was brought into service in Germany.
 (HN, 12/14/98)

1906  Dec 19, H. Allen Smith, Ill, humorist, author (Low Man on Totem Pole), was born.
 (MC, 12/19/01)
1906  Dec 19, Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet General Secretary of the Communist arty and President of the Supreme Soviet from 1964 until 1982, was born in the Ukraine.
 (HN, 12/19/98)(MC, 12/19/01)

1906  Dec 24, Canadian physicist Reginald A. Fessenden became the first person to broadcast a music program over radio, from Brant Rock, Mass.
 (AP, 12/24/97)

1906  Dec 27, Oscar Levant, actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life), was born in Pittsburgh.
 (MC, 12/27/01)

1906  Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson (d.2002) was born in Ladora, Iowa. She later became a newspaperwoman and wrote the 1st 23 Nancy Drew children’s mysteries under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene.
 (WSJ, 5/30/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 5/31/02, p.A13)

1906  William Empson, English critic and poet, was born. He wrote the book "Seven Types of Ambiguity," in which he attempted to translate the new ideas of physics into literary criticism.
 (WUD, 1994, p.468)(SFEC, 8/17/97, Z1 p.3)

1906  Billy Wilder, American film director, was born in (Austria). In 1999 Ed Sikow published "On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder."
 (SFEC, 2/7/99, BR p.5)

1906  Auguste Rodin began his sculpture "Large Left Clenched Hand With Figure."
 (WSJ, 4/1/97, p.A16)

1906  Georges Braque painted "Olive Tree Near L’Estaque." It sold for $4.4 mil in 1998. He also did the landscape "La Ciotat."
 (WSJ, 5/21/98, p.A15)

1906  Cezanne painted "Le Cabanon de Jourdan" in the year of his death.
 (SFC, 5/21/98, p.A14)

1906  Andre Derain painted "The Dance," a jungle scene with 3 dancers and a sinuous snake.
 (WSJ, 12/8/99, p.A20)

1906  Matisse painted "The Joy of Life." Matisse and Picasso met in this year and this work bugged Picasso, who answered with hard-core cubism.
 (NW, 5/13/02, p.12)

1906  Claude Monet painted "Water Lilies." His last great series was devoted to the water lilies of the pond in his Japanese garden in Giverney. This series of paintings lasted to 1916 and became increasingly abstract. One of the 1906 Water Lilies paintings sold for $22.5 mil in 1999.
 (DPCP 1984)(WSJ, 11/19/99, p.W16)

1906  Pablo Picasso painted the corpulent "Portrait of Gertrude Stein" and the landscape "Gosol." In 1996 the landscape sold for $3.4 million. He also did "Head of a Peasant (Joseph Fontdevila)," "Woman Combing Her Hair," and "Self-Portrait With Palette." His colossal female nude predecessors to the 1907 "Demoiselles d’Avignon" were also done. In this year Picasso hooked up with Georges Braque to launch Cubism.
 (SFC, 6/4/96, p.E5)(SFC, 11/15/96, p.C5)(SFC, 3/29/97, p.E1)(WSJ, 4/9/97, p.A12)(WSJ, 4/9/97, p.A12)

1906  John Singer Sargent painted his "Self-Portrait."
 (WSJ, 2/23/99, p.A20)

1906  Maurice de Vlaminck painted "The Seine at Chatou." In 2002 it was valued at an estimated $4.4-5.8 million.
 (WSJ, 3/15/02, p.W14)

1906  Langdon Mitchell wrote his play "The New York Idea."
 (SFEC, 5/30/99, DB p.37)

1906  William Vaughan Moody wrote his play "The Great Divide."
 (SFEC, 5/30/99, DB p.37)

1906  Henry Adams, American historian, published his autobiography, "The Education of Henry Adams." In 1999 the Modern Library cited the work as the century's best English-language work of non-fiction.
 (V.D.-HK.p.266)(SFC, 4/29/99, p.C5)

1906  The autobiography of Lew Wallace (1827-1905) was published.
 (HT, 3/97, p.66)

1906  Svante Arrhenius published his book "Worlds in the Making," in which he welcomed the additional heat generated by additional carbon in the atmosphere fueling the greenhouse effect.
 (NOHY, Weiner, 3/90, p.57)

1906  H. Elves and A. Henry published their classic work on dendrology: "The Trees and Shrugs of Great Britain and Ireland."
 (NH, 6/96, p.46)

1906  Hermann Hesse published "Beneath the Wheel," a novel about an overly zealous and diligent student who is driven to self-destruction.
 (iUniv. 7/2/00)

1906  Percival Lowell, astronomer, published "Mars and Its Canals."
 (NH, 10/96, p.74)(NH, 12/96, p.22)

1906  Edmund Morel wrote "Red Rubber: the Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing on the Congo in the year of Grace 1906."
 (SFEM, 8/16/98, p.9)

1906  Upton Sinclair published "The Jungle," a novel that exposed the intolerable working conditions in the Chicago slaughterhouses.
 (WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R25)

1906  The multi-volume "Flora Brasiliensis," the definitive volume on Brazilian botany commissioned in 1817 by Maximilian I of Austria, was published.
 (WSJ, 7/7/98, p.A14)

1906  Charles Looff, the carousel demigod, built a carousel that was placed in the SF Playland-at-the-Beach.
 (SFC, 1/30/98, p.A20)

1906  Arnold Schoenberg composed his first Chamber Symphony. It preceded his atonal evolution.
 (WSJ, 9/17/98, p.A20)

1906  In New York City Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) financed the building of the Pierpont Morgan Library, a research library and museum at 29 E. 36th St. It was designed by McKim, Mead and White.
 (SFC, 2/15/97, p.D1)(WSJ, 3/25/98, p.B10)

1906  The Hotel Nevada opened in Las Vegas shortly after the rail lines from Los Angeles and Salt Lake City met nearby.
 (WSJ, 5/29/98, p.B1)

1906  In San Francisco the belt and suspender factory at 130 Bush was constructed shortly after the earthquake. The 10-story building was built on a 20x80 foot lot. Its story was documented in the 1996 book by L.G. Segedin: "130 Bush, An Illustrated Story About Four Buildings and a Monument in San Francisco."
 (SFEC, 1/5/97, BR p.1)

1906  Robert Moran, shipbuilder and mayor of Seattle, Wa., began construction of his 54-room mansion, Rosario, on Orcas Island, where he had purchased 7,800 acres. Construction was begun after Moran had completed the building of the U.S.S. Nebraska for the Navy.
 (AAM, 3/96, p.36-39)

1906  Modern Pentecostalism began at a revival meeting at a church on Azuza St. in Los Angeles. It began as a multiracial movement but soon split along racial lines into the white Assemblies of God and the black Church of God in Christ. By 1996 an estimated 20 million Pentecostal Christians were in the US.
 (SFC, 10/14/96, p.A17)

1906  The Cat Fanciers Association split from the American Cat Association and began offering its own shows.
 (Smith., 4/1995, p.132)

1906  A US Steel mill begat a company town name Gary after Elbert H. Gary, the chairman of the board.
 (SFC, 9/8/97, p.A3)

1906  Pres. Theodore Roosevelt stood at the rim of the Grand Canyon. He descended to the bottom in 1908 and declared it a national monument.
 (SFEC, 10/4/98, BR p.12)

1906  Pres. Theodore Roosevelt urged the passage of the Antiquities Act to allow the president to designate areas of scientific, historic or archeological significance as national monuments without the approval of Congress.
 (SFC, 10/8/97, p.A6)(SFEC, 11/21/99, p.A3)

1906  The US Government passed the Antiquities Act. It was used to set aside American resources by executive order.
 (SFC, 9/17/96, p.A7)

1906  Pres. Roosevelt appointed Oscar Solomon as Sec. of Commerce. Solomon was the 1st Jewish person to hold a US cabinet position.
 (SFC, 9/29/99, p.C3)

1906  The US established a provisional government in Cuba as revolution threatened.
 (SSFC, 1/20/02, p.A7)

1906  The US Bureau of Chemistry, a precursor to the FDA, was created.
 (WSJ, 9/26/97, p.A1)

1906  The Alaska capital was moved from Sitka to Juneau.
 (SFEC, 11/7/99, Z1 p.2)

1906  Gov. James Kimble of Mississippi denounced black men as fiends and argued that lynching was the only way to control a barbarous race.
 (WSJ, 1/14/02, p.A16)

1906  A.P. Giannini saved $80,000 from the Bank of Italy building before it burned and reopened after the earthquake and fire before the other SF banks.
 (SFC, 4/14/98, p.B4)

1906  Upton Sinclair wrote a letter to Pres. Roosevelt urging him to send an inspector into the Chicago packing houses.
 (SFC, 12/31/96, p.A7)

1906  The Alaska Packers Assoc. bought the square-rigged Balclutha ship and renamed it Star of Alaska. It carried workers to the Chignick Cannery and transported them back after the salmon season.
 (SFEC,11/23/97, p.D3)

1906  In St. Louis Annie Turnbo (b.1869) registered the "Poro" tradename to cover her Wonderful Hair Grower product. Poro was a Mende (West African) term for a devotional society.
 (SFEM, 8/23/98, p.30)

1906  Ex-Lax, the laxative, was first sold. Its main ingredient, phenolphthalein, was later found to be a cancer risk and it was yanked from the shelves in 1997. The laxative qualities of the chemical were thought to be first discovered accidentally by Hungarians in 1902 who considered using it as an additive in wine.
 (WSJ, 9/26/97, p.A1)

1906  J.P. Morgan brought in Theodore Vail to organize the AT&T telephone system.
 (I&I, Penzias, p.214)

1906  The Haloid Co. was founded in Rochester New York (home of Kodak). It was a photographic paper supplier and later became the Xerox Corp.
 (WSJ, 8/17/95, p.C-1)

1906  The Commercial Pacific Cable Co. (later AT&T) planted ironwood trees on Midway Island after setting cable across the Pacific.
 (SFEC, 7/20/97, p.T5)

1906  Alfred C. Fuller founded the Fuller Brush Company in Hartford, Conn., with $375 in savings and expanded sales using a door-to-door salesforce. It was bought out in 1968 by Consolidated Foods for $53 million and then sold to CPAC in 1994 for $17 million.
 (SFC, 5/31/99, p.A3)(WSJ, 11/3/99, p.B1)

1906  The Planters Nut and Chocolate Co. was formed. The company's symbol, Mr. Peanut, was created ten years later.
 (SFC, 1/20/99, Z1 p.2)
1906  Wagon builders John, William and Augustus Mack came out with a 10-ton truck.
 (SFC, 11/16/96, p.E4)

1906  The twins Francis and Freelan Stanley won acclaim when their Stanley Steamer set a world speed record at Ormond Beach, Fla., at 127.66 mph.
 (WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)

1906  There were 72,000 recorded divorces in the US. A 7-fold increase in 40 years.
 (SFEM, 6/28/98, p.39)

1906  In Alaska Dr. Frederick Cook claimed to have taken a picture of his companion, Edward Barrill, from the summit of Mt. McKinley. In 1998 it was reported that the photo was a fake, and that they probably never reached the summit.
 (SFC, 11/27/98, p.A3)

1906  In Alaska a fire burned down most of downtown Fairbanks.
 (SFEC, 2/8/98, p.T7)

1906  Auguste D. died at 56. She was the first person to have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, described her symptoms of progressive neurodegenerative disease that caused memory loss, dementia and ultimately death.
 (WSJ, 5/13/97, p.B1)

1906  Paul Laurence Dunbar (b.1872), US poet, died. His verse and short stories were written in black dialect.
 (WUD, 1994, p.442)(WSJ, 1/21/00, p.W2)

1906  Stanford White (b.1852), architect, was shot and killed by the millionaire husband of his former teenage mistress. The incident was later featured in E.L. Doctorow’s novel 1975 "Ragtime" and the 1955 movie "The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing." White’s story was later told by Suzannah Lessard in her 1996 book: "The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family."
 (SFEC, 10/13/96, BR p.3)(SFEC, 12/8/96, p.C21)

1906  Ludwig Boltzmann (b.1844), Austrian atomic physics engineer, died. His Vienna tombstone read "Entropy is the logarithm of probability." He hanged himself at the seaside resort of Duino.
 (WUD, 1994, p.167)(WSJ, 7/28/98, p.A16)(SFEC, 8/16/98, Z1 p.8)

1906  In England the Manchester engineer Henry Royce and millionaire’s son Charles Rolls built the first Rolls-Royce car.
 (WSJ, 10/28/97, p.B1)

1906  In Germany the 1st gay periodical "Der Eigene" was published.
 (SSFC, 6/17/01, DB p.66)

1906-1911 Petr Stolypin served as prime minister of Russia until he was executed. In 2001 Abraham Ascher authored the biography: "P.A. Stolypin."
 (WSJ, 5/16/01, p.A21)

1906-1926 Saudi forces captured the Al Hasa, Asir and Al Hijaz regions, unifying much of Arabia under Saudi rule.
 (WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)

1906-1930 The Heintz Art Metal Shop of Buffalo, N.Y., owned by Otto L. and Edwin Heintz, made decorative wares over this period.
 (SFC, 4/1/98, Z1 p.7)

1906-1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian: "If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction."
 (AP, 8/27/00)

1906-1956 The career of George Jean Nathan, drama critic and companion of H.L. Mencken. In 1998 Charles S. Angoff published "The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays Reviews & Commentary."
 (SFEC, 5/31/98, BR p.4)

1909-1966  Stanislaw J. Lec, Polish poet, author and satirist: "THINK before you think!"
 (AP, 8/28/98)

1906-1967 Franz Waxman, German composer. He left Nazi Germany to work in Hollywood and wrote the score to Billy Wilder's film "Sunset Boulevard."
 (WSJ, 3/5/99, p.W10)

1906-1972 Oscar Levant, pianist-composer-actor: "Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember."
 (AP, 1/23/00)

1906-1973 Lon Chaney Jr., son of actor Lon Chaney. In 1998 Don G. Smith published "Lon Chaney Jr., Horror Film Star, 1906-1973."
 (SFEM, 10/11/98, p.6)

1906-1975  Hannah Arendt, German-born American historian and philosopher: "Real stories, in distinction from those we invent, have no author. Although history owes its existence to men, it is not ‘made’ by them." "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." "It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: How noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."
 (AP, 5/7/97)(AP, 8/15/98)(AP, 6/30/99)

19061978 Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician, showed that within any logical system, no matter how rigidly structured, there are always questions that cannot be answered with certainty, contradictions that may be discovered, and errors that may lurk.
 (V.D.-H.K.p.340)

1906-1978  Gilbert Highet, Scottish-born American author and educator: "What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?"
 (AP, 11/4/97)

1906-1989  Richard Armour: "Shake and shake / The catsup bottle. / None will come, / And then a lot’ll."
 (AP, 2/28/98)

1906-1996 Sir Laurens van der Post, South African author: "Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."
 (AP, 4/29/01)

1907  Jan 1, Pres. Theodore Roosevelt shook a record 8,513 hands in 1 day.
 (MC, 1/1/02)
1907  Jan 1, The Pure Food and Drug Act became law in the United States
 (HN, 1/1/99)

1907  Feb 3, James A. Michener (d.1997), American novelist, was born. His work included "Tales of the South Pacific." "Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
 (AP, 2/4/97)(HN, 2/3/01)

1907  Jan 4, George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell" scene from "Man and Superman" premiered in London.
 (MC, 1/4/02)

1907  Jan 15, 3-element vacuum tube was patented by Dr. Lee De Forest.
 (MC, 1/15/02)

1907  Jan 23, Hediki Yukawa, Japanese physicist (Nobel 1949), was born.
 (MC, 1/23/02)

1907  Feb 5, Norton Simon, publishing executive (Simon & Schuster), was born.
 (MC, 2/5/02)

1907  Feb 8, Revolution broke out in Argentina.
 (HN, 2/8/98)

1907  Feb 10, It was reported that SF Mayor Schmitz had agreed to close the city's "oriental schools" and allow Asian children to attend white schools following a meeting with Pres. Theodore Roosevelt.
 (SFEC, 12/26/99, p.W3)

1907  Feb 11, William J. Levitt, U.S. businessman and community builder, was born. He led the postwar housing revolutions with his Levittowns.
 (HN, 2/11/99)
1907  Feb 11, Passenger ship Larchmont sank near Block Island, Rhode Island, and 322 died. [see Feb 12]
 (MC, 2/11/02)

1907  Feb 12, More than 300 people died when the steamer Larchmont collided with a schooner off New England's Block Island. [see Feb 11]
 (AP, 2/12/98)

1907  Feb 13, English suffragettes stormed the British Parliament and 60 women were arrested.
 (MC, 2/13/02)

1907  Feb 16, Fernando Previtali, composer, was born.
 (MC, 2/16/02)

1907  Feb 17, Colonel Olcott died in Madras, India during his last trip there to give his annual Theosophical Society presidential address .
 (Smith., 5/95, p.127)

1907  Feb 18, 600,000 tons of grain were sent to Russia to relieve the famine there.
 (HN, 2/18/98)

1907  Feb 21, Wystan Hugh Auden (d.1973), English born American poet, critic and playwright, was born. He wrote the libretto for Benjamin Britten’s first music drama (1941), "Paul Bunyan." He died in Austria after suffering from Touraine-Solente-Gole in which the skin of the forehead, face, scalp, hands, and feet becomes thick and furrowed. "Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction." His work included "The Age of Anxiety." In 1998 Norman Page published "Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years."
 (HFA, ‘96, p.22)(AHD, 86)(WSJ, 2/12/96, p.A-13)(WSJ, 1/8/98, p.A7)(AP, 4/15/98)(WSJ, 4/23/98, p.A16)(SFEC, 9/27/98, BR p.8)(HN, 2/21/01)

1907  Feb 22, The 1st cabs with taxi meters began operating in London.
 (MC, 2/22/02)

1907  Feb 26, Members of US Congress raised their own salaries to $7500.
 (SC, 2/26/02)
1907  Feb 26, Royal Oil and Shell merged to form British Petroleum (BP).
 (SC, 2/26/02)

1907  Feb 28, Milton Caniff, cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates), was born in Hillsboro, Ohio.
 (MC, 2/28/02)

1907   Mar 1, There were only 15,000 Jews left in Odessa, Russia. The attacks on the Jews continued as more and more evacuated.
 (HN, 3/1/98)

1907  Mar 2, Georges Feydeaus' "La Puce à l'Oreille" premiered in Paris, France.
 (SC, 3/2/02)
1907  Mar 2, General Louis Botha was named premier of Transvaal.
 (SC, 3/2/02)

1907    Mar 5, The 2nd Russian Duma, which included 7 Lithuanians, began work. The Duma stayed in session until June 15.
 (LHC, 3/5/03)

1907  Mar 7, Rolf Jacobsen, Norwegian poet, was born.
 (HN, 3/7/01)

1907  Mar 9, Henry Leland Clarke, composer, was born.
 (MC, 3/9/02)
1907  Mar 9, Indiana enacted the nation’s 1st involuntary sterilization law based on eugenics.
 (SSFC, 2/4/01, p.A3)(NH, 7/02, p.12)(MC, 3/9/02)

1907  Mar 11, President Roosevelt induced California to revoke its anti-Japanese legislation.
 (HN, 3/11/98)

1907  Mar 15, Finland became the 1st European country to give women the right to vote. [see Mar 7, 1906]
 (MC, 3/15/02)

1907  Mar 16 The British cruiser Invincible, the world’s largest, was completed at Glasgow shipyards.
 (HN, 3/16/98)

1907  Mar 21, US invaded Honduras. US Marines landed in Honduras after Americans living there were threatened by revolutionaries.
 (SFC, 9/30/99, p.E5)(MC, 3/21/02)

1907  Mar 22, James Gavin, U.S. Army General, was born. He commanded the 82nd Airborne Division on D-Day, Operation Market-Garden and the Battle of the Bulge.
 (HN, 3/22/97)(AP, 3/22/99)
1907  Mar 22, Russians troops completed the evacuation of Manchuria in the face of advancing Japanese forces.
 (HN, 3/22/97)(AP, 3/22/99)

1907  Mar 23, Daniele Bovet, Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist, was born.
 (HN, 3/23/01)

1907  Mar 28, Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg (65), composer, died.
 (MC, 3/28/02)

1907  Mar 31, Romanian Army put down a Moldavian farmers' revolt.
 (MC, 3/31/02)

1907  Apr 13, Harold E. Stassen (d.2001), later 3-term governor, was born on a truck farm in W. St. Paul.
 (SFC, 3/5/01, p.A24)(MC, 4/13/02)

1907  Apr 14, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti, was born.
 (MC, 4/14/02)

1907  Apr 17, The Ellis Island immigration center in New York Harbor processed a record 11,747 immigrants, part of a record 1,004,756 for the year. Between 1820 and 1970, the year 1907 saw the largest number of immigrants to the U.S., 1,285,349. Between 1905 and 1915, the annual immigration numbers topped 1 million six times.
 (SFEC, 6/20/99, p.T10)(HNQ, 8/12/99)

1907  Apr 18, Miklos Rozsa, movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora), was born in Budapest, Hungary.
 (MC, 4/18/02)

1907  Apr 25, Paula Trueman, actress (Gran-Billy), was born in NYC.
 (SS, 4/25/02)

1907  Apr 26, Jamestown, Va., Tercentenary Exposition opened.
 (MC, 4/26/02)

1907  Apr 29, Fred Zinnemann (d.3/14/97), Hollywood film director, was born in Vienna. His films included "A Hatful of Rain," "The Sundowners," "The Nun’s Story," "From Here to Eternity," "Julia" and "A Man for All Seasons" (1966) with Paul Scofield.
 (SFC, 3/15/97, p.A19)(MC, 4/29/02)

1907  May 6, San Francisco streetcar workers of the Carmen’s Union went on strike after owner Patrick Calhoun refused to accept a $3 per 8-hour day wage. Calhoun hired James Farley to break the union.
 (SFC, 9/13/02, p.D9)

1907  May 7, In San Francisco a gunfight erupted during the electrical workers strike in what came to be known as "Bloody Tuesday." City union street car workers fought with scabs and 4 people were killed and 20 seriously injured.
 (SFC, 1/20/98, p.B3)(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.W3)

1907  May 9, Baldur von Schirach, German writer, Nazi Youth leader, convicted war criminal, was born.
 (MC, 5/9/02)

1907  May 10, Paul Dukas' opera "Ariane et Barbe Bleue," premiered in Paris.
 (MC, 5/10/02)

1907  May 12, Katherine Hepburn, actress (The Philadelphia Story, The African Queen), was born in Hartford, CT.
 (HN, 5/12/01)(MC, 5/12/02)
1907  May 12, Leslie Charteris, English-US detective writer (The Saint), was born.
 (MC, 5/12/02)
1907  May 12, A. Kopff discovered asteroids #633, Zelima, and #634, Ute.
 (SC, Internet, 5/12/97)
1907  May 12, J.K. Huysmans (59), writer, died.
 (MC, 5/12/02)

1907  May 13, Daphne du Maurier, author (Rebecca), was born.
 (HN, 5/13/01)

1907  May 22, Lord Laurence Olivier, English actor, was born. He made Shakespeare movies and was knighted in 1947.
 (HN, 5/22/99)(MC, 5/22/02)

1907  May 25, U Nu, premier Burma (1948-58, 1960-62), was born.
 (SC, 5/25/02)

1907  May 26, John Wayne [Marion Michael Morrison], American actor, was born. He is famous for his western and World War II movies.
 (HN, 5/26/99)

1907  May 27, Rachel Carson (d.1964), biologist and writer (Silent Spring, The Sea Around Us), was born. "If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in."
 (AP, 12/29/98)(HN, 5/27/01)
1907  May 27, Bubonic Plague broke out in San Francisco.
 (HN, 5/27/98)

1907  May 28, Patrick Browne, British Lord justice of appeal, was born.
 (MC, 5/28/02)

1907  May 29, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, critic, was born.
 (SC, 5/29/02)

1907  May 31, Taxis  began running in NYC.
 (MC, 5/31/02)

1907  May, The idea of a day set apart every year to honor motherhood is credited to Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia, who, in 1907, suggested the wearing of carnations on the second Sunday in May to honor mothers. Her enthusiastic campaign for a nationwide observance attracted enough public support that President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation designating the second Sunday in May 1914 the first national Mother’s Day.
 (HNPD, 5/9/00)

1907  Jun 1, Frank A. Whittle, England inventor (jet engine), was born.
(MC, 6/1/02)
1907   Jun 1,27 degrees F (-33 degrees C) in Sarmiento, Argentina, a South American record.
 (DTnet, 6/1/97)

1907  Jun 4, Automatic washer and dryer was introduced.
 (MC, 6/4/02)

1907  Jun 6, Bill Dickey, professional baseball player, was born.
 (HN, 6/6/01)

1907  Jun 11, Paul Mellon (d.1999), art lover, horse breeder (1964 Gold Baton), and philanthropist, was born to Andrew W. Mellon and Nora McMullen. Andrew Mellon was a financier and longtime secretary of the treasury. Mellon donations created the Yale Center for British Art, the Bollingen Prize for poetry, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
 (SFC, 2/3/99, p.A22)(SC, 6/11/02)

1907  Jun 14, Women in Norway won the right to vote.
 (HN, 6/14/98)

1907  Jun 16, The Russian czar dissolved the Duma in St. Petersburg.
 (HN, 6/16/98)

1907  Jun 20, Lillian Hellman (d.1984), American author and playwright (The Little Foxes, Toys in the Attic), was born. "Success and failure are not true opposites and they’re not even in the same class; they’re not even a couch and a chair."
 (AP, 1/28/01)(HN, 6/20/01)

1907  Jun 21, E.W. Scripps founded United Press.
 (MC, 6/21/02)

1907  Jun 22, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author (Gift from the Sea), was born.
 (MC, 6/22/02)

1907  Jun 26, Russia’s nobility demanded drastic measures to be taken against revolutionaries.
 (HN, 6/26/98)

1907  Jul 1, World's 1st air force was established as part of the US Army.
 (MC, 7/1/02)
1907  Jul 1, The Asiatic Registration Act became law in the province of Transvaal, SA.
 (ON, 9/03, p.1)

1907  Jul 3, A Papal decree forbade the modernization of theology.
 (MC, 7/3/02)

1907  Jul 8, George W. Romney, later governor of Michigan, was born. He later was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination until he admitted that he had been "brainwashed" by the military on the Vietnam War.
 (HN, 7/8/98)
1907  Jul 8, Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first "Follies" on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
 (AP, 7/8/97)
1907  Jul 8, San Francisco Mayor Eugene Schmitz was sentenced to 5 years in San Quentin for graft and bribery. Others were forced out of office for accepting bribes from the telephone company, gas company, trolley company, local skating rinks and boxing promoters. Dr. Charles A. Boxton (d.1927) admitted to taking bribes and was granted immunity by District Attorney W.H. Langdon for his testimony. Boxton was then appointed temporary mayor for one week in place of Mayor Schmitz and then resigned. The Native Sons of California promptly struck Boxton from their rolls. Schmitz was later elected to the SF Board of Supervisors.
 (SFC, 9/9/96, p.E8)(SFC, 9/30/99, p.E5)

1907  Jul 16, Orville Redenbacher, agronomist and popcorn entrepreneur, was born in Clay County, Indiana. "Do one thing and do it better than anyone."
 (AH, 10/01, p.36)(MC, 7/16/02)
1907  Jul 16, Barbara Stanwyck (d.1990), Oscar winning actress, was born as Ruby Stevens.
 (HN, 7/16/98)(MC, 7/16/02)

1907  Jul 18, Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies of 1907," premiered in NYC. [see Jul 8]
 (MC, 7/18/02)

1907  Jul 24, In Boise, Id., the last day of the Bill Haywood trial over the 1905 murder of former Idaho Gov. Frank Steunenberg. Haywood, president of the Western Federation of Miners, was defended by Clarence Darrow.
 (SFEC, 10/5/97, BR p.1,6)

1907  Jul 25, Jack Gilford, actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2), was born in NYC.
 (SC, 7/25/02)
1907  Jul 25, Johnny Hodges, jazz musician, was born.
 (HN, 7/25/02)

1907  Jul 28, Earl Silas Tupper, founder of Tupperware, was born.
 (HN, 7/28/01)
1907  Jul 28, Vivian Vance, actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), was born in Cherryvale, Ks.
 (SC, 7/28/02)

1907  Jul 29, The 1st helicopter ascent in Douai, France.
 (MC, 7/29/02)

1907  Aug 28, United Parcel Service began service in Seattle, Wash. Two Seattle teenagers began a telephone message service that grew to become the United Parcel Service (UPS).
 (SFC, 7/22/99, p.B1)(MC, 8/28/01)

1907  Aug 30, Shirley Booth (Thelma Booth Ford) was born in New York City. Booth was best known from 1950s television as the zany maid Hazel. She won a Tony, an Oscar, the Cannes Festival award and numerous critics' commendations for her role as the slovenly Lola Delany in 'Come Back, Little Sheba'. Booth went on to act in more films including 'The Matchmaker' which was a precursor to  the musical 'Hello Dolly!'
 (MC, 8/30/01)

1907  Aug 31, William Shawn, longtime editor of The New Yorker, was born.
 (HN, 8/31/00)
1907  Aug 31, England, Russia and France formed their Triple Entente.
 (MC, 8/31/01)

1907  Aug, Mayor Eugene Schmitz and others were forced out of office for accepting bribes from the telephone company, gas company, trolley company, local skating rinks and boxing promoters. Dr. Charles A. Boxton (d.1927) admitted to taking bribes and was granted immunity by District Attorney W.H. Langdon for his testimony. Boxton was then appointed temporary mayor for one week in place of Mayor Schmitz and then resigned. The Native Sons of California promptly struck him from their rolls.
 (SFC, 9/9/96, p.E8)

1907  Sep 1, Walter Reuther, labor leader, was born. He merged the American Federation of Labor with the Congress of International Organizations
 (HN, 9/1/99)

1907  Sep 3, Carl Anderson, physicist, was born. He won the 1936 Nobel prize for his discovery of the positron.
 (HN, 9/3/00)
1907  Sep 3, Loren Eiseley, professor of Anthropology (Animal Secrets), was born.
 (MC, 9/3/01)

1907  Sep 4, Edvard Hagerup Grieg (64), Norwegian composer (Peer Gynt Suite), died.
 (WUD, 1994, p.622)(MC, 9/4/01)

1907  Sep 6, The luxury liner Lusitania left London for New York on her maiden voyage.
 (HN, 9/6/98)

1907  Sep 8, Pius X published his anti-modernism encyclical Pasceni dominici gregis.
 (MC, 9/8/01)

1907  Sep 17, Warren E. Burger, chief justice of the Supreme Court, was born.
 (HN, 9/17/98)

1907  Sep 23, Jarmila Novotna, soprano (Met Opera) and president of Czechoslovakia (1957-68), was born.
 (MC, 9/23/01)

1907  Sep 25, Jean Sibelius' 3rd Symphony premiered.
 (MC, 9/25/01)

1907  Sep 26, Anthony F. Blunt, British historian and spy for USSR, was born.
 (MC, 9/26/01)
1907  Sep 26, New Zealand declared independence from UK.
 (MC, 9/26/01)

1907  Sep 29, Gene Autry (d.1998), singing cowboy, was born in Tioga, Texas.
 (SFC, 10/3/98, p.A14)(HN, 9/29/00)

1907  Oct 1, Plaza Hotel at 5th Av and 59th Str. opened in NYC.
 (SFEC, 7/4/99, p.T4)(MC, 10/1/01)

1907  Oct 7, Helen MacInnes, writer, was born.
 (HN, 10/7/00)

1907  Oct 13, Yves Allégret, French film director, was born. His work included "Dédée d'Anvers" and "Une si jolie petite plage."
 (HN, 10/13/00)

1907  Oct 22, The Ringling Brothers Circus bought Barnum & Bailey.
 (HN, 10/22/98)

1907  Oct 27, The first trial in the Eulenberg Affair ended in Germany. Prince Philip Eulenberg was an aristocrat and former diplomat who was an old friend of the Kaiser’s. Others were jealous of Eulenberg’s position. Maximilian Harden, editor of the magazine Die Zunkunft, began to print a series of articles in the fall of 1906 which alleged that Eulenberg and other highly placed men were homosexuals.
 (HN, 10/27/98)

1907  Oct 28, Edith Head, fashion designer for MGM, was born.
 (MC, 10/28/01)

1907  Nov 7, General Electric was re-instated as a component of the Dow Jones. Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. was removed from the Dow Jones.
 (WSJ, 5/28/96, p.R45)

1907  Nov 13, Paul Corno achieved the first helicopter flight.
 (HN, 11/13/98)

1907  Nov 14, Astrid Lindgren (d.2002), Swedish children's writer, was born. Her books included "Pippi Longstocking."
 (HN, 11/14/00)(SFC, 1/29/02, p.A17)

1907  Nov 15, Count Claus Schenck von Stauffenberg, German anti fascist colonel, was born.
 (MC, 11/15/01)

1907  Nov 16, Burgess Meredith, actor, was born in Cleveland. He died Sep 10, 1997 at 89. He played the Penguin on TV’s Batman and numerous films in a 60 year film career.
 (HIR, 9/11/97, p.5B)(SFC, 9/11/97, p.A18)
1907  Nov 16, Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory were unified to make Oklahoma, which was made the 46th state. Black settlers founded some 30 towns before statehood was achieved.
 (WSJ, 11/10/97, p.A1)(HFA, '96, p.42)(NG, 5/95, p.92)(HN, 11/16/98)

1907  Nov 20, Henri-Georges Clouzot, French director (Le salaire de la peur), was born.
 (MC, 11/20/01)

1907  Nov 21, Jim Bishop, author (The Day Lincoln was Shot), was born.
 (MC, 11/21/01)
1907  Nov 21, The Cunard liner Mauritania set a new speed record for steamship travel, 624 nautical miles in a one day run.
 (HN, 11/21/02)
1907  Nov 21, Gaetano Braga (78), composer, died.
 (MC, 11/21/01)

1907  Nov 26, The Russian Duma lent support to Czar in St. Petersburg, who claimed that he had renounced autocracy.
 (HN, 11/26/98)

1907  Nov 27, Lyon Sprague de Camp (d.2000), US sci-fi author (Goblin Tower, Hand of Zei), was born.
 (MC, 11/27/01)

1907  Nov 30, Jacques Barzun, French author (The House of Intellect), was born.
 (MC, 11/30/01)

1907  Dec 2, Spain and France agreed to enforce Moroccan measures adopted in 1906.
 (HN, 12/2/98)

1907  Dec 3, George M. Cohan's musical "Talk of the Town," premiered in NYC.
 (MC, 12/3/01)

1907  Dec 6, Worst mining disaster in American history took place in West Virginia's Marion County. An explosion at a mine owned by the Fairmont Coal Company in Monongah killed 361 coal miners.
 (MC, 12/6/01)

1907  Dec 9, US Christmas seals went on sale for the first time, at the Wilmington, Del., post office. Proceeds went to fight tuberculosis. The fists US Christmas seals were issued by the Red Cross in a program founded by a Delaware woman to support a TB sanitarium.
 (AP, 12/9/97)(SFC, 12/23/98, Z1 p.3)

1907  Dec 10, Rumor Godden, English novelist (Black Narcissus), was born.
 (HN, 12/10/00)

1907  Dec 13, In Argentina the Ministry of Agriculture struck oil while drilling for water in Comodoro Rivadavia.
 (WSJ, 10/4/96, p.A9)

1907  Dec 18, Christopher Fry, playwright (Ring Around the Moon), was born in Bristol, England.
 (MC, 12/18/01)

1907  Dec 19, A gas explosion killed 239 workers in a coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pa.
 (AP, 12/19/97)(MC, 12/19/01)

1907  Dec 21, Oskar Lassar (58), German dermatologist, died.
 (MC, 12/21/01)

1907  Dec 23, The 1st all-steel passenger railroad coach was completed at Altoona, Pa.
 (MC, 12/23/01)

1907  Dec 25, Cab Calloway, band leader and first Jazz singer to sell a million records, was born.
 (HN, 12/25/98)

1907  Dec 26, Albert Gore Sr. (d.1998), later US Representative and Senator from Tennessee, was born in Granville, Tenn.
 (SFEC, 12/6/98, p.C14)

1907  Dec 28, The WSJ reported on the photographs of Mars by Dr. Lowell at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona. Lowell identified markings in the photos as evidence of great canals constructed for irrigation.
 (WSJ, 12/8/97, p.B1)

1907  Dec 29, Robert C. Weaver, the first African American to serve on a president’s cabinet, was born. He was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
 (HN, 12/29/00)

1907  Dec 31, For 1st time a ball was dropped at Times Square to signal new year.
 (MC, 12/31/01)
1907  Dec 31, Gustav Mahler conducted the Metropolitan Opera.
 (MC, 12/31/01)

1907  Dec, The US stock market, spurred by a "bear raid," took a nose-dive and set off a widespread panic. Many banks failed.
 (SFC, 9/30/99, p.E5)
1907  Dec, There was stock market panic this year when the Knickerbocker Trust Co. failed. J.P. Morgan took charge and forbade the NY stock market to close and raised $25 million in 15 minutes to add liquidity. He summoned the most important bankers to devise a plan to abort the panic and no depression was induced. Morgan also called on clergymen to preach sermons of confidence. The crises led the government to create the Federal Reserve System. Morgan got bankers to agree to settle accounts among themselves with clearinghouse certificates rather than cash and thus increased the money supply. The story was later recounted by John Steele Gordon in his 1999 book "The Great Game."
 (SFC,10/27/97, p.B2)(WSJ, 10/7/98, p.A22)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R42)(WSJ, 12/13/99, p.A32)
1907  Dec, Banker J.P. Morgan saved the US financial system by putting his own money on the line in the Panic of 1907. In the Panic of 1907 J.P. Morgan, who ran US Steel, bought the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. and trustbuster Theodore Roosevelt agreed not to object to the buyout. Elbert H. Gary was the chairman of US Steel.
 (WSJ,2/13/97, p.A18)(WSJ, 5/28/96, R45)(WSJ, 7/16/01, p.A10)

1907  Robert Young (d.1998), film and TV actor, was born in Chicago.
 (SFC, 7/23/98, p.C4)

1907  Marc Chagall painted his "Self Portrait with Seven Fingers."
 (WSJ, 5/11/95, p. A-14)

1907  Arthur Wesley Dow painted "Rain in May."
 (SFC, 9/11/99, p.C12)

1907  Matisse painted his "Red Madras Headdress" which featured his wife as the model. The painting later became part of the Albert C. Barnes collection. [see 1925, Barnes] Matisse also painted "Blue Nude" in this year.
 (WSJ, 11/28/95, p.A-12)(WSJ, 7/9/01, p.A26)

1907  Picasso painted "Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon."
 (WSJ, 11/13/96, p.A20)

1907  The play "Playboy of the Western World" by John Millington Synge was first produced at the Abbey Theater in Dublin, Ireland.
 (WSJ, 7/21/98, p.A12)

1907  August Strindberg completed his anti-naturalistic play "The Ghost Sonata."
 (WS, 6/27/01, p.A12)

1907  Charles Caffin wrote "Story of American Painting."
 (SFEM, 4/11/99, p.50)

1907  Alfred Stieglitz made his photogravure "The Steerage." It was later acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
 (WM, www,1999)

1907  Henri Bergson wrote "Creative Evolution." He saw evolution activated by a creative inner experience that he called the "elan vital," the power of life to overcome fixed and rigid forms.
 (WSJ, 6/22/99, p.A22)

1907  The first Hopalong Cassidy book was published. Clarence Mulford began his Cassidy stories in 1905. The first Cassidy movie with William Boyd was released in 1935. The series moved on to radio and TV.
 (SFC, 1/21/98, Z1 p.3)(SFC, 7/8/98, Z1 p.3)

1907  Alfred Russel Wallace wrote his book "Is Mars Habitable."
 (NH, 12/96, p.28)

1907  "The Secret Agent" by Joseph Conrad was published.
 (SFC, 7/9/96, p.A3)

1907  "Chapters of Brazil Colonial History, 1500-1800" by Joao Capistrano de Abreu (1853-1927) was first published. The Oxford Library of Latin America published a new edition in 1998.
 (WSJ, 2/3/98, p.A20)

1907  Mikhail Fokine used Saint-Saens cello dirge for his dance "The Swan," made for dancer Anna Pavlova. It became "The Dying Swan" in the New World.
 (SFC, 11/9/96, p.E1)

1907  Gustav Mahler composed his Symphony No. 8, nicknamed "Symphony of a Thousand" because it is usually performed by hundreds of players. The devil is evoked in the last half of the work.
 (SFC, 10/23/00, p.F3)

1907  The US Customs House in NYC was constructed.
 (SFEC, 6/21/98, p.T4)

1907  The Flemish Gothic skyscaper at 90 West Street, NYC, designed by Cass Gilbert, was completed
 (WSJ, 10/17/02, p.D6)

1907  The St. Louis "New" Cathedral on Lindell Blvd. was begun. It was not finished until the 1990s and grew to possess the largest collection of mosaic art in the world.
 (SFC, 10/12/97, p.T5)

1907  The Royal Alexandria Theater was built in Toronto, Canada.
 (SFEC, 12/8/96, p.C21)

1907  Fred Swanton, a local entrepreneur in Santa Cruz, CA., opened the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
 (SFEC, 5/11/97, DB p.64)

1907  Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams met as students at the Univ. of Pennsylvania.
 (SFC, 6/3/96, BR p.6)

1907  The Univ. of Arizona Cow Barn was constructed, wearing the ornamental scalloped gables of a Spanish mission church.
 (AWAM, Dec. 94, p.32)

1907  Frederick H. Meyer founded the California Guild of Arts and Crafts in Berkeley. In 1922 it was renamed the California College of Arts and Crafts and moved to Oakland.
 (SFC, 8/29/96, p.C3)

1907  Carlotta Monterey, later the 3rd wife of Eugene O’Neill, playwright, was Miss California.
 (SFEC, 2/1/98, Z1p.1)

1907  The Hague Convention of this year prohibited the taking of war booty and instituted what some considered the first wartime environmental protections.
 (WSJ, 5/29/96, p.A6)(SFC, 8/11/00, p.A15)

1907  The US Tillman Act prohibited national banks and corporations from making political contributions in federal elections. It was named for Sen. Benjamin "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman, a democrat from South Carolina.
 (SFEC, 10/5/97, p.D9)(SFEC, 7/16/00, p.A8)

1907  A Federal Meat Inspection Act was passed.
 (WSJ, 12/16/97, p.A1)

1907  Pres. Teddy Roosevelt continued to establish himself as the first great "trust buster." He won a ban on corporate contributions.
 (SFC,10/27/97, p.B2)(SSFC, 3/18/01, p.A1)

1907  The City Council of Fort Dodge, Iowa, passed legislation that required everybody between the ages of 25 and 45 to get married.
 (SFEC, 2/23/96, z-1 p.2)

1907  Tongass National Forest, the largest US National Forest, was established as part of the National Forest System. It covers over 50,000 sq. miles.
 (AAM, 3/96, p.84)(SFEC, 8/29/99, Z1 p.6)

1907  Mt. Rainier National Park in Washington state became the first national park opened to car traffic and attendance soared.
 (SFC, 8/14/99, p.A6)

1907  The family of Lt. Col. George Armistead, commander at Fort McHenry in 1814, donated the fort’s flag to the Smithsonian Museum. It had inspired Francis Scott Key to write the Star Spangled Banner.
 (WSJ, 7/3/02, p.B1)

1907  The first retail drive-in gasoline facility opened in St. Louis.
 (WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)

1907  Charles Ives, composer, founded Ives & Myrick, an insurer that he headed from 1916-1930.
 (WSJ, 9/1/00, p.W2)

1907  The retail firm Neiman Marcus was founded in Dallas. The firm had 32 US stores in 2002.
 (SFC, 1/23/02, p.A20)

1907  The New York Currier & Ives partnership, formed in 1857, closed down with an inventory of 7,000 titles.
 (WSJ, 12/19/00, p.A19)

1907  The Murphy Oil Company was founded in Arkansas.
 (F, 10/7/96, p.60)

1907  Hermann Minkowski, mathematician, proposed a new geometry that added time to the three dimensions of space.
 (NG, March 1990, J. Boslough p. 118)

1907  Leo Baekeland of Yonkers, NY, invented Bakelite, a hard plastic. [see 1909]
 (WSJ, 1/11/98, p.R18)

1907  Lee De Forest patented the "Audion tube," a sensitive receiver for radio signals. He also invented the first method for putting sound on film.
 (SFC, 12/27/99, p.A8)

1907  In France the physicist Georges Claude discovered that high voltage electricity shot through certain gases radiated color. He patented a neon tube in 1909.
 (G&M, 7/31/97, p.A20)(SFEC, 5/23/99, p.B7)(SFEC, 8/13/00, p.T6)

1907  The leak from the diverted water of the Colorado River that formed the Salton Sea in southern California was finally plugged.
 (SFC, 11/30/98, p.A22)

1907  The 1st Black American was elected a Rhodes scholar.
 (WSJ, 7/11/03, p.A1)

1907  "Buffalo clover... nearly knee-high... afforded a rich pasture." An image of the fertile frontier penned by historian S.P. Hildreth in 1788. After 1907 the clover was unseen until 1989 when it emerged in some topsoil delivered to a botanist’s backyard.
 (NG, Jan. 94, p.144)

1907  The American Museum of Natural History purchased a collection of 35 Maori preserved and tattooed heads. A Maori representative in 1998 sought to bring them back to New Zealand.
 (SFC, 3/17/98, p.B3)

1907  Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev (b.1834), Russian chemist, died. He formulated the periodic table of elements in 1869 and authored the 1st modern chemistry text in Russia. In 2001 Paul Strathern authored "Mendeleyev’s Dream," a history of chemistry.
 (V.D.-H.K.p.324)(HN, 2/8/01)(WSJ, 8/21/01, p.A17)

1907  In Argentina Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Longabaugh, known as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, held up another bank. They sold their ranch in Patagonia to a beef syndicate and went to Bolivia where they were gunned down by soldiers after robbing a mine payroll.
 (SFC, 1/19/98, p.A10)

1907  In Britain the current Old Bailey building was built. It stands on the site of the old Newgate Jail.
 (SFEC, 10/27/96, p.T11)

1907  Britain urged the adoption of Daylight savings time to conserve fuel and provide more hours to train soldiers.
 (WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R14)

1907  The British forced the abolition of slavery on the new Sultan of Zanzibar and Lamu Island went into an economic decline.
 (SSFC, 4/15/01, p.T7)

1907  In Cambodia French explorations under Louis Deleporte began at the ancient city of Angkor. Found artifacts were shared between France and Cambodia.
 (AM, May/Jun 97 p.60)

1907  In France the bowling game of petanque or boule assumed its current form after possible origins in ancient Greece or Egypt. Similar to bocce ball it is played on a dirt court with baseball sized steel balls. In 1998 it was seeking Olympic recognition.
 (WSJ, 1/5/98, p.20)

1907  In Germany in Berlin the Hotel Adlon on the Unter den Linden was founded by Lorenz Adlon. It was burned to the ground during WW II and reconstructed in 1997.
 (SFEC, 7/27/97, p.T5)

1907  Carl Hagenbeck established the world’s first zoo to free animals from cages in Hamburg, Germany.
 (Hem., Oct. ‘95, p.25)

1907  On the Isle of Man the motorbike race for the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy, was started.
 (SFEC, 9/28/97, p.T13)

1907  In Korea some dozen civilian leaders started a national campaign to raise money to ease the national debt to Japan, which was its colonial ruler. About 1/6th of the total debt was donated.
 (SFC, 1/7/98, p.A8)

1907  In Sudan the first primary school for girls was founded by the Bedris family. It grew to become the private Ahfad University.
 (SFC, 2/20/98, p.A12)

1907-1908 Constantin Brancusi created his "blocky" sculpture "The Kiss."
 (WSJ, 7/5/96, p.A5)(SFC, 10/26/96, p.B6)

1907-1909 Murray Levick was the naturalist on the Ernest Shackleton south polar expedition. [see Shackleton 1914]
 (NH, 8/96, p.36)

1907-1914 George Washington Goethals, US major general and engineer, was the chief engineer of the Panama Canal.
 (WUD, 1994, p.606)

1907-1915 The Lucerna Palace in Prague, Czechoslovakia, was built by Vaclav Havel, grandfather of the Czech president of 1997.
 (SFEC, 7/6/97, p.B4)

1907-1917 "A Life of Picasso Vol. II" by John Richardson (1996) covers this period of the painter’s life.
 (WSJ, 11/13/96, p.A20)

1907-1934 HJ was a mark used by A.G. Harley Jones, operator of the Royal Vienna Art Pottery in the Staffordshire district of England at this time.
 (SFC, 7/9/97, Z1 p.3)

1907-1954 Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter. Her work includes "Self-Portrait as a Tehuana."
 (SFC, 4/18/96, E-1)(SFC, 7/14/96, p.C11, illustr.)

1907-1958 Mike Todd, American movie producer: "I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation."
 (AP, 12/5/98)

1907-1964 Opera stars of this period were featured on a 1997 video "The Art of Singing: Golden Voices of the Century" by NVC Arts on Atlantic Records.
 (WSJ, 6/5/97, p.A20)

1907-1971  James Ramsey Ullman, American author: "To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need."
 (AP, 8/21/97)

1907-1972 Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish-born scholar: "He who is swift to believe is swift to forget."
 (AP, 5/1/01)

1907-1977 Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist: "The door to the past is a strange door. It swings open and things pass through it, but they pass in one direction only. No man can return across that threshold, though he can look down still and see the green light waver in the water weeds."
 (AP, 4/24/99)

1907-1978 Charles Eames, an American polymath artist. Together with his wife he designed numerous objects, furniture and made more than 75 films.
 (SFC, 6/6/96, E1)

1907-1982 Jacques Tatisheff, French film actor and director. In 2000 David Bellow authored the biography "Jacques Tati."
 (WSJ, 8/1/00, p.A20)

1907-1988 Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction writer: "Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil."
 (V.D.-H.K.p.383)(AP, 5/25/ American 99)

1907-1989  Laurence Olivier, British actor: "I take a simple view of living. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it."
 (AP, 3/18/98)

1907-1989 I.F. Stone, American journalist: "Those who nobly set out to be their brother's keeper sometimes end up by becoming his jailer. Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie."
 (AP, 10/17/99)

1907-1990 Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel, American theologian, author and educator: "Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have."
 (AP, 1/31/01)

1907-1996 Sir Frank Whittle, British engineer. He first patented the idea of a jet engine in 1930.
 (SFC, 8/10/96, p.A20)

1907-1997 Dora Maar, fashion and portrait photographer. In 1935 she met Pablo Picasso in Paris and began a 7-year affair.
 (SFC, 5/1/99, p.E1)

1907-1997 Henriette Wyeth, painter, daughter of American master N.C. Wyeth. Her work included "Death and the Child." She was the sister of painter Andrew Wyeth. Two other sisters, Carolyn and Ann, were also painters.
 (SFC, 4/4/97, p.A25)(WSJ, 6/2/98, p.A20)

1907-  Vaclav Trojan, Czech composer. His works include "Cathedral in Ruins," the opera "Rondabout" and a variety of film music such as Jiri Trnka’s puppet films: Spalicek, the Emperor’s Nightingale, Prince Bajaja, Old Bohemian Legends and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
 (BAAC PN, Chambers, 1/8/96)

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