What Happened In April 1906 - Historical Events 1906 April

Historical Events for April, 1906

7th » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
7th » The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
14th » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
18th » 1906 San Francisco earthquake called An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
22nd » The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.

1st » Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Russian engineer, founded the Yakovlev named Yakovlev Design Bureau (d. 1989)
2nd » Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest and educator (d. 1970)
4th » Bea Benaderet, American actress (d. 1968)
4th » John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (d. 1995)
5th » Lord Buckley, American actor and singer (d. 1960)
8th » Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor (d. 1974)
9th » Rafaela Aparicio, Spanish actress (d. 1996)
9th » Antal Doráti, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (d. 1988)
11th » Dale Messick, American illustrator (d. 2005)
13th » Samuel Beckett, Irish-French author, playwright, and director, Nobel Prize in Literature named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
13th » Bud Freeman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1991)
17th » Sidney Garfield, American physician (d. 1984)
21st » Eugen Sacharias, German-Estonian architect (d. 2002)
22nd » Eddie Albert, American actor (d. 2005)
22nd » Eric Fenby, English composer and educator (d. 1997)
22nd » Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (d. 1947)
24th » William Joyce, American-English broadcaster (d. 1946)
24th » Mimi Smith, English nurse and secretary (d. 1991)
25th » William J. Brennan, Jr., American colonel and jurist (d. 1997)
27th » Yórgos Theotokás, Greek author (d. 1966)
28th » Pierre Boileau, French author (d. 1989)
28th » Kurt Gödel, Czech-American mathematician (d. 1978)
28th » Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)

6th » Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b. 1849)
11th » James Anthony Bailey, American businessman, co-founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (b. 1847)
11th » Francis Pharcellus Church, American journalist and publisher, co-founded 'Armed Forces Journal' and 'The Galaxy (magazine) or The Galaxy Magazine' (b. 1839)
12th » Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, Indian scholar, academic, and philanthropist (b. 1836)
18th » Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
19th » Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
19th » Spencer Gore (sportsman) named Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
25th » John Knowles Paine, American composer and educator (b. 1839)