Timeline August 1906

Events in August 1906 6

• 1906 US Championships 1906 Men: William Clothier · Women: Helen Homans
• 1906 – 1987 John Huston (1906-1987) Died 28 August 1987, aged 81 Huston was an American film director and screenwriter known for classics including The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The African Queen. His directing career spanned over four decades and won him an Academy Award. He died in Middletown, Rhode Island, shortly after completing his final film, The Dead.
• 1906 The Valparaiso earthquake Chile's great port, flattened An earthquake of roughly magnitude 8.2 destroys Valparaiso, then the most important port on the Pacific coast of South America. Around three thousand die and the city burns for days. Valparaiso is rebuilt, but the opening of the Panama Canal eight years later removes the reason ships came round Cape Horn at all, and it never recovers its position.
• 1906 – 1993 Albert Sabin (1906-1993) Died 3 March 1993, aged 86 Albert Sabin developed the oral polio vaccine, which used a weakened live virus and could be administered on a sugar cube, making mass immunization far easier than with the earlier injected vaccine. His vaccine became the primary tool in the global campaign to eradicate polio. He died in Washington, D.C.
• 1906 – 1979 Joan Blondell (1906-1979) American actress, the wisecracking blonde of Warner Bros. pre-Code musicals and comedies.
• 1906 Joan Blondell born in New York Joan Blondell is born in New York.