Timeline March 1906

Events in March 1906 2

• 1820 – 1906 Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) Died 13 March 1906, aged 86 The American women's suffrage leader died in Rochester, New York, fourteen years before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment she had spent her life campaigning for. She co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association and became one of the most recognized symbols of the movement for women's voting rights.
• 1906 Courrieres mine disaster Coal-dust explosion kills over 1,000 miners in northern France An underground explosion at the Courrieres coal mine in Pas-de-Calais killed 1,099 miners, making it the worst mining disaster in European history. The catastrophe prompted a wave of strikes and led to reforms in French mine safety regulation.