Editing 1906 (section)

=== March–April ===
* [[March 4]] &ndash; Native American tribal governments are terminated in [[Indian Territory]], a prerequisite for creating the US state of [[Oklahoma]] in [[1907]].
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Courrières mine disaster]]: An explosion in a coal mine in France kills 1,060.
* [[March 18]] &ndash; In France, Romanian inventor [[Traian Vuia]] becomes the first person to achieve an unassisted takeoff in a heavier-than-air powered [[monoplane]], but it is incapable of sustained flight.
* [[April 14]] &ndash; The [[Azusa Street Revival]], the primary catalyst for the revival of [[Pentecostalism]] this century, opens in [[Los Angeles]].
* [[April 18]]
** The [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|San Francisco Earthquake]] (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the [[San Andreas Fault]] destroys much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3,000, with 225,000–300,000 left homeless, and $350&nbsp;million in damages.
** [[Xerox]], the global [[Digital electronics|digital]] [[Office equipment|office machine]] brand, is founded in [[Rochester, New York]] as the Haloid Photographic Company.<ref name="xeroxhaloid">[http://www.xerox.com/go/xrx/template/019d.jsp?view=Factbook&id=XAG&Xcntry=USA&Xlang=en_US Online Fact Book: Xerox at a Glance] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805182953/http://www.xerox.com/go/xrx/template/019d.jsp?view=Factbook&id=XAG&Xcntry=USA&Xlang=en_US |date=August 5, 2009 }}, xerox.com. Article retrieved December 13, 2006.</ref>
* [[April 23]] &ndash; In the [[Russian Empire]], the [[Russian Constitution of 1906|Fundamental Laws]] are announced at the first state [[Duma]].

[[File:San francisco 1906 earthquake.jpg|thumb|200px|right| The ruins of [[San Francisco]] following the [[April 18]] earthquake and later fires]]