1906 in the United Kingdom:

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1906 English cricket season

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Events from the year 1906 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Edward VII of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Liberal

Events

• 8 February - The Liberal Party led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman win the general election with a large majority.
• 15 February - Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in Parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party.
• 10 March - Bakerloo Line of the London Underground opened.^[1]
• 15 March - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.
• 22 March - First international rugby match. England defeats France 25-8.^[2]
• 26 May - opening of Vauxhall Bridge in London.^[1]
• 8 October - German inventor and hairdresser Karl Nessler gives the first public demonstration of his permanent wave machine in London.^[1]
• 23 October - Suffragettes disrupt the State Opening of Parliament.^[2]
• 2 December - HMS Dreadnought commissioned, the first all-big-gun warship.
• 10 December - J. J. Thomson wins the Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases."^[3]
• 13 December
  • Trade Disputes Act 1906 legalises picketing.^[2]
  • Workmen's Compensation Act 1906 entitles workers to compensation for industrial injuries or disease.^[2]
• 15 December - Opening of the London Underground Piccadilly line.^[1]

Undated

• Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior.

Publications

• Henry Watson Fowler and Francis George Fowler's book The King's English.
• John Galsworthy's first Forsyte Saga novel The Man of Property.

Births

• 19 February - Grace Williams, composer (died 1977)
• 26 February - Madeleine Carroll, actress (died 1997)
• 16 March - Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (died 1998)
• 9 April - Hugh Gaitskell, British Labour politician (died 1963)
• 29 May - T. H. White, writer (died 1964)
• 20 June
  • Catherine Cookson, author (died 1998)
  • Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (died 2000)
• 27 June - Vernon Watkins, poet (died 1967)
• 30 June - Ralph Allen, footballer (died 1981)
• 5 August - Joan Hickson, actress (died 1998)
• 28 August - John Betjeman, poet (died 1984)
• 8 December - Richard Llewellyn, novelist (died 1983)
• 24 December - James Hadley Chase, writer (died 1985)

Deaths

• 20 June - John Clayton Adams, artist (born 1840)
• 19 December - Frederic William Maitland, historian and jurist (born 1850)
• 30 December - Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist (born 1814)

References

See also