Timeline February 1906

Events in February 1906 9

• 1906 Bambatha Rebellion breaks out Zulu-led uprising against poll tax crushed in Natal Chief Bambatha kaMancinza led an armed uprising among Zulu communities in the British colony of Natal against a newly imposed poll tax. Colonial forces crushed the rebellion within months, killing several thousand Africans in one of the last major armed uprisings against colonial rule in southern Africa.
• 1906 – 1988 John Carradine (1906-1988) Died 27 November 1988, aged 82 John Carradine was an American character actor who appeared in more than 340 films across six decades, including Stagecoach and The Grapes of Wrath. He was a founding patriarch of the Carradine acting family. He continued working in film until shortly before his death.
• 1906 HMS Dreadnought is launched Portsmouth, United Kingdom All big guns and turbine engines made every existing battleship obsolete overnight — including Britain's own. The naval race restarted from zero, which suited Germany.
• 1906 HMS Dreadnought launched Revolutionary battleship ushers in a new naval arms race The Royal Navy launched HMS Dreadnought at Portsmouth, a battleship whose all-big-gun armament and steam turbine propulsion made every existing capital ship obsolete. Her design triggered an international naval arms race, particularly between Britain and Germany, and gave her name to a new class of warship.
• 1906 – 1973 Lon Chaney Jr. (1906-1973) American actor, son of Lon Chaney, who played the Wolf Man and nearly every Universal monster.
• 1906 Lon Chaney Jr. born in Oklahoma City Lon Chaney Jr. is born in Oklahoma City.
• 1906 – 1987 Madeleine Carroll (1906-1987) English actress, Hitchcock's first great blonde in The 39 Steps, who gave up film to nurse wounded soldiers.
• 1906 Madeleine Carroll born in West Bromwich Madeleine Carroll is born in West Bromwich.
• 1906 Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle Novel exposing meatpacking conditions spurs US food safety laws Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle depicted the brutal conditions faced by immigrant workers in Chicago's meatpacking industry and the unsanitary practices behind American food production. Public outrage over the book helped drive passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act later that year.