September 1906 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1906 British New Guinea becomes Australian Papua New Guinea
• 03 Sep 1906 Philadelphia Giants win Negro Championship Cup in Philadelphia before 10,000 fans
• 04 Sep 1906 New York Highlanders win 5th straight doubleheader
• 05 Sep 1906 1st legal forward pass
• 07 Sep 1906 Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
• 11 Sep 1906 Mahatma Gandhi coins the term ''Satyagraha'' to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
• 12 Sep 1906 The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
• 13 Sep 1906 First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
• 16 Sep 1906 Kaarlo Nieminen wins 1st Finnish marathon
• 18 Sep 1906 A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
• 20 Sep 1906 Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
• 22 Sep 1906 Race riot in Atlanta Georgia, kills 21
• 24 Sep 1906 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
• 25 Sep 1906 In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.
• 28 Sep 1906 US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909.
• 29 Sep 1906 US intervenes in Cuba ousts Dictator Estrada Palma
• 30 Sep 1906 The Real Academia Galega, Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.

Famous Birthday

• Dmitri Shostakovich

  Russian composer noted for his daring and experimental style.

• Jean Dréville

  French film director who began with short films in 1928 then moved into features in 1932.

• Dita Parlo
• Denis de Rougemont
• Mireille (singer)
• John Coolidge

  American noted family, the son of President Calvin Coolidge and his wife, Grace.

• Jacques Becker

  French film director and screenwriter (Born 1906).

• Fabien Loris
• Kathryn Murray

  American dance teacher, the wife of Arthur Murray from 4/24/1925.

• John Innes Mackintosh Stewart
• Ilse Koch

  German wife of Karl-Otto Koch (d. 1967).

• Penny Singleton

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- Voice (Jane Jetsons) / actress (Blondie).

• Peter Mieg

  Composer.

• Annie Hermes

  Dutch singer.

• Ruvim Pergament

  Composer.

• Lambertus "Bertus" van Lyre

  Composer / conductor (Hooglied).

• Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra

  Poet (Ongerijmde life).

• Phyllis Hartnoll

  Writer / editor.

• Andrei P Kirilenko

  Russian member of Central Committee of CP.

• Willard F McMurry

  Musician.

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Famous Deaths

• Guiseppe Giacosa

  Ital screenwriter (libretti opera Puccini).

• Georg Jacobi

  Composer, dies at 66.

• Jan van Rijswijck

  Flemish journalist / Mayor of Antwerp.

• Robert R Hitt

  American politician (Born 1834).

• Ludwig Boltzmann

  Austrian physicist and philosopher whose greatest achievement was in the development of statistical mechanics, which explains and predicts...

• Samuel Arnold

  English organist and composer (d. 1802).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Arthur Collins - Here it Comes Again
2. Billy Murray & Haydn Quartet - Waltz Me Around Again, Willie
3. Billy Murray - College Life
4. Bert Williams - Here it Comes Again
5. Byron G. Harlan - The Good Old U.S.A.