1906
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Before the first Pure Food and Drug Act became law; until it was possible to buy, in stores or by mail order medicines containing morphine, cocaine, or heroin, and without their being so labeled. "Upton Sinclair attacked the U.S. meat packing industry in his muckraking novel The Jungle (1906)" --Sholem Stein |
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1906 (MCMVI) was the 906th year of the 2nd millennium, the 6th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1900s decade.
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Events
- The first audio recording was broadcast over radio by Reginald A. Fessenden
- The first Pure Food and Drug Act becomes law; until its enactment, it was possible to buy, in stores or by mail order medicines containing morphine, cocaine, or heroin, and without their being so labeled.
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Literature
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Non fiction
- Historia Amoris A History of Love Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
- The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō
- The Cynic's Word Book by Ambrose Bierce
- Meine Lebensbeichte by Wanda von Sacher-Masoch
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Theatre
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Art
- Salome by Franz von Stuck
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Births
- March 24 - Dwight Macdonald, American writer, editor, social critic, philosopher and political radical (d. 1982)
- Albert Hofmann (1906 – 2008)
- Louise Brooks (1906 – 1985)
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975)
- Kroger Babb (1906 - 1980)
- Josephine Baker (1906 - 1975)
- Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977)
- Luchino Visconti (1906 - 1976)
- Harold Rosenberg (1906 - 1978)
- Samuel Beckett (1906 – 1989)
- Jim Thompson (1906-1977)
- Otto Preminger (1906 - 1986)
- Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)
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Deaths
- Paul Cézanne (1839 – 1906)
- Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)
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