April 1906 calendar

Events

• 02 Apr 1906 South Africa completes a 4-1 series drubbing of England.
• 07 Apr 1906 Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police and banking business.
• 08 Apr 1906 Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
• 11 Apr 1906 Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity.
• 13 Apr 1906 Mutiny on Portuguese battleships Dom Carlos and Vasco da Gama.
• 14 Apr 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in US press.
• 18 Apr 1906 Calvinist Reformed Union in the Netherlands Church forms in Utrecht
• 19 Apr 1906 San Francisco earthquake ends killing 452
• 22 Apr 1906 10th anniversary Olympic games open at Athens, Greece
• 23 Apr 1906 In Tsarist Russia, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.

Famous Birthday

• Samuel Beckett

  Irish author of prose, fiction and avant-garde plays, who established the contemporary theater of the absurd with his surrealistic "Waiting...

• Kurt Gödel

  Czech-American mathematician philosopher and academic (d. 1978).

• Armand Barbault

  French engineer and alchemist, a member of a noted French astrology family and professional astrologer who wrote under the pseudonym...

• Antal Doráti

  Hungarian-American conductor and composer (d. 1988).

• Enrico Mattei

  Italian industrialist who was one of the most powerful oil men in the world.

• Aimé Maeght

  French art collector and editor, who founded the Galerie Maeght in Paris and Barcelona, and the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence near...

• Lucette Descaves
• Boileau-Narcejac
• Eric Fenby

  British musician and composer who acted as amanuensis for the then blind and paralyzed composer Frederick Delius from 1928-1934.

• Karel Jonckheere

  Belgian writer, teacher, literary critic, poet and novelist who wrote autobiographical travel stories.

• Don Loper
• Bart Bok

  Dutch-American astronomer who came to the U.S.

• James Robertson

  Scottish law enforcement officer, the Chief Constable of Glasgow in 1960.

• Bud Freeman

  American jazz musician (Born 1906).

• Renato Cesarini
• Alice Allison Dunnigan
• Rafaela Aparicio

  Spanish actress (d. 1996).

• Frank H Netter
• Sally Salminen

  writer.

• Lili Darvas

  Budapest, Hungary -- Actress (Szerelem, Cimmaron).

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Famous Deaths

• Francis Pharcellus Church

  American editor and publisher (Born 1839).

• James Anthony Bailey

  American circus impresario (Born 1847).

• Alexander L Kielland Norwegian writer (Working People)

  dies at age 57.

• Georgi Apollonovitch Gapon Russian-orthodox clergyman/tsarist agent

  dies.

• James A Bailey circus showman (Barnum and Bailey)

  dies at age 58.

• Australian wombat oldest known marsupial

  dies in London Zoo at age 26.

• John Knowles Paine

  American composer (Born 1839).

• Auguste D

  First recorded Alzheimer's victim (Born 1850).

• Luis Martin

  Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (Born 1846).

• Pierre Curie

  French scientist, a physicist and chemist and the co-discoverer of radium with his wife, Marie, for which they won the Nobel Prize 1903...

• Spencer Gore

  British tennis player and cricketer (Born 1850).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Len Spencer & Ada Jones - The Original Cohens
2. Charles D'Almaine - Medley of Old-Time Reels
3. Frank Stanley - When the Mocking Birds are Singing in the Wildwood
4. Prince's Orchestra - Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
5. Corrine Morgan - So Long, Mary