1906

1906

San Francisco earthquake!

Otherwise, pretty boring year, except for Teddy Roosevelt: 1) he dedicates the United States' first national monument: Devil's Tower, 2) he receives the Nobel Peace Prize for his intervention in the Russo-Japanese War, and 3) he becomes the first sitting U.S. President to take a diplomatic trip outside the United States (to Cuba).

born: Robert E. Howard, Lon Chaney Jr., Bugsy Siegel, Samuel Beckett, Kurt Godel, Billy Wilder, Dmitri Shostakovich, Luchino Visconti, Otto Preminger

died: Henryk Ibsen

Charles Ives - Central Park in the Dark (my favorite Charles Ives piece; even if you've been taking a pass on most of the classical/modern composer stuff I've been posting, you shouldn't miss out on this one.)

Claude Debussy - Iberia