February 1906 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1906 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas
• 02 Feb 1906 Pope encyclical against separation of church and state.
• 09 Feb 1906 Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising.
• 10 Feb 1906 State of siege proclaimed in Zululand.
• 11 Feb 1906 Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical ''Vehementer Nos''.
• 15 Feb 1906 The British Labour Party is organised.
• 18 Feb 1906 Edouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
• 19 Feb 1906 WK Kellogg and Ch Bolin found Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company
• 22 Feb 1906 Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in Los Angeles California.
• 23 Feb 1906 Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart for heavyweight boxing champion in 20 rounds.
• 27 Feb 1906 France and Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides.

Famous Birthday

• Bugsy Siegel

  American gangster connected with narcotics, gambling, book-making, jewel and fur theft and opium deals.

• Roger Frison-Roche

  French writer, mountaineer and alpinist.

• Clyde Tombaugh

  American astronomer and academic discovered Pluto (d. 1997).

• Jacqueline Thome-Patenôtre

  French politician and minister.

• Madeleine Carroll

  British actress who was a gentle, well-bred leading lady of the '30s and '40s.

• Henriette Gröll
• Agostinho da Silva

  Portuguese philosopher and author (d. 1994).

• John Carradine

  American actor, dies at age 82 of kidney failure (born 1906).

• Hans Asperger

  Austrian pediatrician and academic (d. 1980).

• Alexis Curvers

  Belgian novelist, the author of "Pius XII, The Outraged Pope.

• Yves Baudrier

  French musician and composer In 1936 he co-founded the group Jeune France.

• Paul Winter

  French discus thrower, an Olympic champion at Los Angeles games in 1932.

• Pierre Capdevielle

  Composer, dies at 63.

• Jeanne Aubert
• Colette Darfeuil

  French actress whose film career began at age 14 in 1920 and continued through the early 1950s.

• Franz Rademacher

  German Nazi, the "Jewish expert" of the Foreign Office and supervisor of the murder of Jews in Belgrade from October 1941.

• Artur Balsam

  Polish / US pianist (Begeleidde Menuhin, Milstein).

• Hermann Bauer

  German esoteric publisher and astrologer.

• Henry Roth

  Austria-Hungary / US writer (Call it Sleep).

• Mary Brian

  American actress (Born 1906).

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Famous Deaths

• Anton Stepanovich Arensky

  Russian Composer / conductor c t, dies at 44.

• Paul Laurence Dunbar black dialect poet

  dies at age 33 in Dayton Ohio.

• Willem Doorenbos literary/critic

  dies at age 85.

• Johann Hoch US murderer

  executed.

• Manuel Fernandez Caballero composer

  dies at age 70.

• Ezra Butler Eddy

  Canadian businessman and politician (Born 1827).

• John Batterson Stetson

  American manufacturer (Born 1830).

• Albert Gottschalk

  Danish painter (Born 1866).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Byron G. Harlan - Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
2. Harry Tally - Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
3. Billy Murray - Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway
4. Haydn Quartet - Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?
5. Vess Ossman - My Irish Molly O