1906 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1906 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - Edward VII of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Liberal
[edit] Events
- 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.
- 2 December - HMS Dreadnought commissioned, the first all-big-gun warship.
- 8 February - The Liberal Party led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman win the general election with a large majority.
[edit] Unknown dates
- Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior.
- 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." [2]
[edit] Births
- 19 February - Grace Williams, composer (died 1977)
- 26 February - Madeleine Carroll, actress (d. 1997)
- 16 March - Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (d. 1998)
- 9 April - Hugh Gaitskell, British Labour politician (d. 1963)
- 29 May - T. H. White, writer (d. 1964)
- 20 June
- Catherine Cookson, author (d. 1998)
- Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (d. 2000)
- 27 June - Vernon Watkins, poet (died 1967)
- 30 June - Ralph Allen, footballer (d. 1981)
- 5 August - Joan Hickson, actress (d. 1998)
- 28 August - John Betjeman, poet (d. 1984)
- 8 December - Richard Llewellyn, novelist (died 1983)
- 24 December - James Hadley Chase, writer (d. 1985)
[edit] Deaths
- 20 June - John Clayton Adams, artist (b. 1840)
- 19 December - Frederic William Maitland, historian and jurist (b. 1850)
- 30 December - Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist (b. 1814)
[edit] References
- ^ (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1906
