August 1906 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1906 Brooklyn Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pittsburgh for 10 2 / 3 loses in 13th
• 02 Aug 1906 Chicago White Sox begin AL record 19 game win streak
• 04 Aug 1906 Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.
• 10 Aug 1906 Pope Pius X bans Associations cults
• 13 Aug 1906 Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas.
• 16 Aug 1906 A magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Valparaíso, Chile leaves approximately 20,000 dead.
• 22 Aug 1906 The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, is manufactured.
• 23 Aug 1906 Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Washingston Senators
• 24 Aug 1906 Cincinnati Red John Weimer no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 1-0 in 7 inning game.
• 29 Aug 1906 Bridge in St. Lawrence Canada caves in; 70 die
• 30 Aug 1906 New York Highlander Joe Doyle debuts pitching back-to-back shut-outs

Famous Birthday

• Ed Gein

  American serial killer (Born 1906).

• John Huston

  American film director, screenwriter and actor.

• Marie José of Belgium
• Marcel Carné

  French film director, best known for his collaborations with screenwriter Jacques Prévert.

• André Roch
• Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet

  advertising magnate, dies at age 89.

• Idaho Falls (Idaho)
• Albert Bruce Sabin
• Friz Freleng

  American animator director and producer (d. 1995).

• June Collyer

  Actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60.

• Charles Biederman
• Alexandre Trauner
• Harriet Parsons

  American film producer and noted family, the daughter of columnist Louella Parsons.

• Germana Paolieri
• Ettore Majorana

  Italian theoretical physicist who began work on neutrino masses.

• Francis Walder

  France Writer.

• Eugen Gerstenmaier

  German politician (CDU).

• Joachim Homs

  Composer.

• Wassely Leontief

  Russ / US economist (Nobel 1973).

• Philo T Farnsworth

  Beaver, Utah -- Inventor (electronic TV).

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Famous Deaths

• Alfred Stevens

  Belgian artist who became an immensely successful painter during the 1860s, known for his paintings of elegant modern women.

• Hans Auer

  Swiss-Austrian architect designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (d. 1906).

Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Richard Jose - Home, Sweet Home
2. Ada Jones - Waiting at the Church (My Wife Won't Let Me)
3. Arthur Pryor's Band - You're a Grand Old Flag
4. Len Spencer & Ada Jones - Bashful Henry and His Lovin' Lucy
5. Frank Stanley & Corrine Morgan - By the Light of the Honeymoon