Timeline November 1906

Events in November 1906 4

• 1906 – 1976 Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) Died 17 March 1976, aged 69 Luchino Visconti, the Italian film and theatre director regarded as a founder of Italian neorealism, died in Rome. His films included The Leopard and Death in Venice. He had continued directing from a wheelchair after a stroke in 1972.
• 1906 Stolypin's land reform A wager on the strong Pyotr Stolypin lets peasants leave the village commune and consolidate their strips into private farms, betting that a class of independent smallholders will have too much to lose to make revolutions. He asks for twenty years of peace to finish it. He is assassinated in 1911 and the war comes in 1914. Alongside the reform runs the repression: field courts-martial hang enough people that the noose acquires the nickname Stolypin's necktie.
• 1906 – 1985 Louise Brooks (1906-1985) American dancer and actress, icon of the bob haircut, whose German films with Pabst made her a cult figure.
• 1906 Louise Brooks born in Cherryvale Louise Brooks is born in Cherryvale.