Timeline Saturday 10 February 1906

Events on Saturday 10 February 1906 4

• 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.