LIFE 1906
Historical Highlights from 1906 :
- Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, locates the Magnetic North Pole.
- The San Francisco earthquake, estimated magnitude 7.8, kills at least 3,000 and leaves 225,000–300,000 homeless.
- Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle exposes the health threat of the meat-packing industry.
- English biochemist concludes that a lack of vitamins causes scurvy and rickets.
- The first German submarine, U-1, enters the German Imperial Navy.
- The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, is manufactured.
- President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower, Wyoming as the nation’s first National Monument.
- Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia result in 27 people killed and the Black-owned business district severely damaged.
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