Timeline Monday 26 February 1906

Events on Monday 26 February 1906 3

• 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.