• San Francisco - April 18, 1906, a very large earthquake shook the City. The tremor lasted less than a minute but it was estimated to be 8.3 on the Richter scale (the Richter scale was not invented until 1935). The City was totaled.

• Nobel Peace Prize - USA, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt established himself as an arbiter and helped bring an end to the Russo-Japanese War. His peace efforts made him the first American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

• Dow-Jones Average - January 12, 1906 for the 1st time the Dow-Jones average closed above 100 (at 100.26).

• Rolls-Royce - Brits Henry Rolls and Charles Stewart Royce formed Rolls-Royce Ltd. on March 15, 1906.

Notable Deaths -
Susan B. Anthony, 1820-1906, she was a leader in the early days of the temperance movement and championed woman’s suffrage. Although, Anthony did not see women get the right to vote, her efforts were instrumental in the establishment of the 19th amendment (women’s right to vote). In 1979 the USA government made her the first native-born woman to be commemorated on an American coin.

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