What Happened In August 1906 - Historical Events 1906 August

Historical Events for August, 1906

4th » Central railway station, Sydney opens.
5th » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
16th » An estimated 1906 Valparaíso earthquake known as 8.2 M_W earthquake hits Valparaíso, Chile, killing 3,886 people.

4th » Marie José of Belgium (d. 2001)
4th » Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist, director, and producer (d. 1973)
5th » Joan Hickson, English actress (d. 1998)
5th » John Huston, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1987)
5th » Wassily Leontief, German-American economist and academic, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
6th » Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
12th » Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach (d. 1985)
12th » Tedd Pierce, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1972)
13th » Chuck Carroll, American football player and lawyer (d. 2003)
13th » Art Shires, American baseball player and boxer (d. 1967)
18th » Marcel Carné, French director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
19th » Philo Farnsworth, American inventor, invented the Fusor (d. 1971)
20th » Charles Arnt, American actor (d. 1990)
20th » Vidrik Rootare, Estonian chess player (d. 1981)
21st » Friz Freleng, American animator, director, and producer (d. 1995)
25th » Jim Smith (cricketer) named Jim Smith, English cricketer (d. 1979)
26th » Albert Sabin, Polish-American physician and virologist, developed the polio vaccine (d. 1993)
27th » Ed Gein, American murderer (d. 1984)
28th » John Betjeman, English poet and academic (d. 1984)