Top News Stories from 1906

World Events

• Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, locates Magnetic North Pole.
• Ethiopia declared independent in a tripartite pact; country is divided into British, French, and Italian spheres of influence.
• Finland is the first European country to give women the vote.

U.S. Events

• More than 500 people are killed during the San Francisco earthquake and ensuing three-day fire. Background: Great Disasters
• President Roosevelt sails to the Panama Canal Zone. It is the first time a U.S. president has travelled outside the country while in office.

Economics

Sports

World Series

Stanley Cup

Wimbledon

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Football Champions

Entertainment

Events

• Reginald Fessenden invents wireless telephony, a means for radio waves to carry signals a significant distance.
• Upton Sinclair exposes the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in The Jungle.

Science

• English biochemist Frederick Hopkins concludes that vitamins are essential and that a lack of vitamins causes scurvy and rickets.
• British geologist and seismologist Richard Dixon Oldham notes that earthquake waves travel more slowly when they pass through the center of the Earth, and suggests that our planet has a dense core.

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