The twelve months of 1906 appeared to be mostly significant for the number as well as severity of the natural calamities. On January 31st there had been an 8.8 magnitude quake mostly impacting on Colombia and Ecuador which also generated the tsunami that came to as far as the Hawaiian islands and also caused more than 500 fatalities. On the fifth of April Mount Vesuvius exploded, damaging Naples and killing around 100 individuals. The quantity of lava ejected was by far the most ever reported from a Vesuvian eruption. Throughout Italy they were preparing for the 1908 Summer Olympics when the explosion happened and resources had to be diverted from that to reconstructing Naples, and a different city for the Olympics needed to be found. On April 18 a magnitude 7.8 earth quake within the San Andreas Fault damaged a big part of San Francisco, Ca. Right after the earthquake, fires quickly started in San Francisco and lasted for many days. Over 3000 men and women perished and over 80 percent of the city was destroyed. This natural catastrophe is amongst the worst and also deadliest earthquakes in the history of the United States of America. This fatality toll ended up being the highest loss of life coming from a natural catastrophe within California. A blast at the in a coal mine upon March 10 in Courrières, France killed 1060 mine workers. In August a magnitude 8.2 quake in Valparaíso, in Chile leaves approximately 20000 injured. With September 18, a hurricane with a tsunami killed about 10000 in Hong Kong. A magnitude 7.9 quake in Xinjiang, China wipes out almost 300 individuals on December 22.
Other significant incidents in 1906 was that Theodore Roosevelt will be the 26th President of the United States. He was president through 1901 to 1909. On February 7, the Royal Navy’s boat, the HMS Dreadnought was initially unveiled. That leads to a naval competition between Britain and Germany eager for naval supremacy with the initial Imperial German Navy submarine, the U-1 getting unveiled on August 4th. The world’s largest sized boat at the time, the Cunard ship RMS Lusitania is launched in Glasgow on June 7. The first Grand Prix was held on closed public roads outside the city of Le Mans, in France in June. The track is most well known now for the 24 Hours of Le Mans race which takes place each and every year. On September 30 the very first Gordon Bennett Cup for balloon racing is held from Paris to Yorkshire, England. The competition continues to be organised annually. In October, there is a diplomatic dilemma involving the United States and Japan when the San Francisco public school board orders Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools. In December, the Greater London Underground’s Great Northern, Piccadilly and also Brompton Railway tracks are opened. The morse code for SOS will become a global distress signal on November 3rd. The well-known brand, Xerox is founded in Rochester, NY as the Haloid Photographic Company. A notable health care occurrence in 1906 was that the BCG vaccine to forestall tuberculosis was first developed however has not been made use of clinically until 1921. The vaccine proved to be extremely effective and it is given to babies as one dosage and has tremendously lowered the levels of tuberculosis around the world.