Timeline April 1906

Events in April 1906 6

• 1859 – 1906 Pierre Curie (1859-1906) Died 19 April 1906, aged 46 The French physicist, who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife Marie Curie and Henri Becquerel for research on radioactivity, was killed instantly when he slipped and was run over by a horse-drawn cart on a Paris street. His death cut short one of the most productive partnerships in the history of science.
• 1906 Algeciras Conference concludes European powers settle the First Moroccan Crisis Representatives of the major European powers met in Algeciras, Spain, to resolve the dispute over French and German influence in Morocco. The conference affirmed Moroccan sovereignty in name while confirming French and Spanish policing rights, easing tensions that had pushed France and Germany toward war.
• 1906 Mount Vesuvius erupts Major eruption devastates towns near Naples Mount Vesuvius produced its most powerful eruption since 1872, sending lava flows through the town of Boscotrecase and collapsing the roof of Ottaviano's market under heavy ash, killing over 100 people. The eruption disrupted the region for weeks and remains one of the volcano's most destructive events since Pompeii.
• 1906 Azusa Street Revival begins Los Angeles meetings give rise to modern Pentecostalism A series of ecstatic religious meetings led by preacher William J. Seymour began at a former livery stable on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. The revival, marked by speaking in tongues and racially integrated worship unusual for the era, is widely credited with launching the global Pentecostal movement.
• 1906 – 1989 Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) Died 22 December 1989, aged 83 Samuel Beckett was an Irish playwright and novelist best known for Waiting for Godot, a landmark of absurdist theatre. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969. His minimalist style profoundly influenced twentieth-century drama.
• 1906 – 1978 Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) Died 14 January 1978, aged 71 Gödel was one of the most significant logicians in history, best known for his incompleteness theorems proving inherent limits to formal mathematical systems. He died in Princeton, New Jersey, of self-starvation brought on by paranoid delusions.