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The first part of the Post Office Savings Bank in Vienna is completed, to the designs of Otto Wagner
Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a hard-hitting novel about the Chicago meat-packing industry
More than 1200 French miners die in an underground explosion in the district of Calais
Cardiff's new Civic Centre is launched with the completion of the City Hall and Law Courts, designed by Lanchester, Stewart and Rickards
English biologist William Bateson uses the word 'genetics' to describe the phenomenon of heredity and variation
An international conference at Algeciras effectively gives France informal control of Morocco
A new tram service is launched by London United Tramways on 1 Mar 1906 that crosses Kingston Bridge
The Grain Growers' Grain Company is established, soon becoming an important element in Canada's grain market
Frederick Soddy observes his first examples of chemically identical elements with differing atomic weights, to which he later gives the name isotopes
Fire destroys much of San Francisco following the most violent earthquake in the city's history
The Liberals win a majority in election for Russia's new duma and press ahead with proposals for land reform
Antoni Gaudí completes his radical rebuilding of the Casa Batlló in Barcelona
Istanbul cedes the Sinai Peninsula to British-controlled Egypt
17-year-old Charlie Chaplin joins the Fred Karno company, touring slapstick comedy
Tsar Nicholas II issues a Fundamental Law emphasizing his own autocratic power
In Charles Ives' composition The Unanswered Question the trumpet repeatedly asks 'the perennial question of existence'
German immunologist August von Wasserman develops a diagnostic test to reveal the presence of the syphilis spirochaete in the blood
Charles Pathé opens the first purpose-built luxury cinema, the Omnia-Pathé, in Paris
The first volume of the inexpensive Everyman's Library is issued by Joseph Dent, a London publisher
The Naturalization Act provides definitive requirements for naturalization as a US citizen
E. Nesbit publishes The Railway Children, the most successful of her books featuring the Bastable family
The Simplon rail tunnel, the longest in the world (20 km), is opened between Switzerland and Italy
In direct response to Britain's new Dreadnought, Germany increases the production of battleships
Tsar Nicholas II appoints as prime minister the reformist aristocrat Pyotr Stolypin
Harold Macmillan wins a scholarship to the prestigious British public school Eton College
