1906 in the United States

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Events from the year 1906 in the United States.

Incumbents

Governors

Lieutenant Governors

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Events

January–March
February 28: The Jungle exposes corruption in the meatpacking industry.

April–June
April 18: 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

July–September
September 5: The first legal forward pass in an American football.

October–December

Undated

Ongoing

Sport

Births

January–February

March–April

May–June

July–August

  • July 1 – Estée Lauder, cosmetics entrepreneur (died 2004)
  • July 7 – Satchel Paige, baseball player (died 1982)
  • July 18 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-born American academic and politician, U.S. Senator from California from 1977 to 1983 (died 1992)
  • August 6 – Vic Dickenson, trombonist (died 1984)
  • August 9 – Robert L. Surtees, cinematographer (died 1985)
  • August 12 – Tedd Pierce, animator (died 1972)
  • August 17 – Hazel Bishop, chemist and inventor of "no-smear" lipstick (died 1998)
  • August 19 – Philo Farnsworth, American inventor and television pioneer (died 1971)
  • August 27 – Ed Gein, serial killer (died 1984)

September–October

November–December

  • November 1 – Johnny Indrisano, boxer and actor (died 1968)
  • November 5 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, astronomer (died 2004)
  • November 14 – Louise Brooks, actress (died 1985)
  • November 15 – Curtis LeMay, U.S.A.F. general, vice-presidential candidate (died 1990)
  • November 18 – George Wald, scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)
  • December 9 – Grace Hopper, computer scientist and naval officer (died 1992)
  • December 11 – Herman Welker, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1951 to 1957 (died 1957)
  • December 27 – Oscar Levant, pianist, composer, author, comedian and actor (died 1972)

Deaths

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