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The bodies of Moro insurgents and civilians killed by US troops during the Bud Dajo Massacre in the Philippines, March 7, 1906.
Year 1906

Bud Dajo Massacre

On March 7, 1906, US troops under the command of Major General Leonard Wood massacred as many as 1,000 Filipino Muslims, known as Moros, who were taking refuge at Bud Dajo, a volcanic crater on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines.

Events

• January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, and establish a national assembly, the Majlis.
• January 16–April 7 – The Algeciras Conference convenes, to resolve the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany.
• February 10 – Template:Ship is launched, sparking a naval race between Britain and Germany.
• March 4 – Native American tribal governments are terminated in Indian Territory, a prerequisite for creating the state of Oklahoma in 1907.
• April 23 – In the Russian Empire, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.
• June 30 – The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 is signed into law by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (effective January 1, 1907).
• July 6 – The Second Geneva Convention meets.
• July 12 – Alfred Dreyfus is exonerated. He is reinstalled in the French Army on July 21, thus ending the Dreyfus affair.
• August 4 – The first Imperial German Navy submarine, U-1, is launched.
• August 23 – Unable to control a rebellion, Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma 'requests' United States intervention. This leads to the Second Occupation of Cuba, which lasts until 1909.
• September 11 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha, to characterize the nonviolence movement in South Africa.
• October 6 – The Majlis of Iran convenes for the first time.
• October 16 – Imposter Wilhelm Voigt impersonates a Prussian officer, and takes over the city hall in Köpenick for a short time.
• October 23 – An aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off at Bagatelle in France, and flies 60 meters (200 feet). This is the first officially recorded powered flight in Europe.
• October 28 – The Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust, is created in the Congo.
• November 22 – Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms, aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.
• December 30 – The All-India Muslim League is founded as a political party in Dhaka in the British Raj; it becomes a driving force for the creation of an independent Pakistan.

 

Events

Event	Start	End
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Dreyfus Affair	November 1894	1906

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Dongguk University
Food and Drug Administration		Regulator
Staffordshire University			Originally Mining School, had to branch out after closing of mining industry in the 1980s.
Georgia Southwestern College		Public	University in the US state of Georgia, originally a teacher training college
Kyiv National Economic University		Public	The largest economic educational institution in the Ukraine
American Jewish Committee		Lobby
Gannett			The most powerful mass media newspaper company in the USA.
Pace University			A private university with its main campus in New York City and secondary campuses in Westchester County, New York.

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Summary	Description
William Avery Rockefeller Sr.	13 November 1810	11 May 1906	United States Illinois Freeport	Lumberman Salesman	A bigamist and travelling salesman of elixirs. Patriarch of the Rockefeller family
Alfred Beit	15 February 1853	16 July 1906	Hertfordshire Tewin	Businessperson

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Ivar Bryce	1906		1985	Spook	During World War II Bryce worked the British Security Coordination, where he created a very successful forged Nazi map of South America for propaganda purposes.
Alfred Dean Slack	1906			Spook
Charles Malik	1906		28 December 1987	Diplomat Philosopher Academic	Lebanese diplomat and philosopher suspected to have visited Le Cercle.
John Keswick	1906	Dumfriesshire UK	1982	Spook Businessperson	UK single Bilderberger businessman Jardine Matheson/SOE
Takeshi Watanabe	1906		23 August 2010	Bureaucracy Deep state operative	Father of the Asian Development Bank. First Asia Pacific Chairman of the Trilateral Commission
Alex Rosen	1906		15 March 2006	Police officer	Close collaborator of J Edgar Hoover. Probably a major organizer of the Cointelpro program.
Rezső Kasztner	1906		15 March 1957	Journalist Lawyer	Zionist leader in Hungary who "sacrificed the mass of Jewry for a chosen few"
George Douglas-Hamilton	4 January 1906		24 November 1994	Soldier Politician
Aristotle Onassis	20 January 1906	Turkey Karataş Smyrna	15 March 1975	Billionaire Shipping magnate	Greek shipping magnate, married Jacqueline Kennedy
Howard Corcoran	25 January 1906	US Rhode Island Pawtucket	11 May 1989	Lawyer Judge	US federal judge. Brother of Thomas Corcoran, a close friend of Lyndon B. Johnson.
Walter Gordon	27 January 1906	Ontario Toronto	21 March 1987	Author Politician Accountant Businessperson	Triple Bilderberger, President of the Canadian Privy Council
Hilda Murrell	3 February 1906	Shropshire Shrewsbury UK	23 March 1984	Spook Activist	A senior UK spook turned anti-nuclear activist assassinated in 1984 on the day she had notified friends that she had some sensitive papers she was seeking to publish... Blamed in 2006 on a 16 year old "lone nut"
Barry Bingham	10 February 1906		15 August 1988	Businessperson	Kentucky media owner who collaborated with British Security Coordination. Attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1950s. Ran the Marshall Plan in France in 1949.
Bugsy Siegel	28 February 1906	New York United States Brooklyn Williamsburg	20 June 1947	Crime boss	Crime boss assassinated in 1947
Paul Rassinier	18 March 1906	France Bermont	28 July 1967	Activist Historian
Adolf Eichmann	19 March 1906		1 June 1962	"Antisemitism"	Eichmann: the logistics chief of the Holocaust
Abraham Beame	20 March 1906	London UK	10 February 2001	Politician
John Davison Rockefeller III	21 March 1906	New York United States	10 July 1978	Deep politician Businessperson	Scion of the Rockefeller family with a lifelong passion for population control
Mark Turner	29 March 1906		13 December 1980	Businessperson	UK bilderberg businessman
Hugh Gaitskell	9 April 1906	London United Kingdom Kensington	18 January 1963	Politician	A UK Labour politician who reportedly died of a rare illness in hospital.
Thomas Gates	10 April 1906	United States Pennsylvania Germantown	25 March 1983	Financier Deep state functionary	Investment Banker, US secretary of defense for slightly over 1 year, attended the 1968 Bilderberg
Roswell Gilpatric	11 April 1906		15 March 1996	Lawyer Deep state functionary	Single Bilderberg classmate of Charles W. Yost, Paul Nitze and Chapman Rose. US Deputy Secretary of Defense
Frank Darvall	16 April 1906		21 May 1987	Author Diplomat Historian Trade unionist	UK labour leader who attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1950s
Gustaf Adolf	22 April 1906		26 January 1947	Royalty Deep state operative	Swedish royal who probably could have played an important role in post war Europe had he not died in 1947 air crash.
Enrico Mattei	29 April 1906		27 October 1962	Deep state operative Businessperson	Chairman of ENI, the Italian state oil company which had challenged the oligopoly of the Seven Sisters. He died in a suspicious plane crash in 1962.
Hans Günther Sohl	2 May 1906	Germany Danzig	13 November 1989	Businessperson	Head of Europe's biggest steel maker. Attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s after being "denazified".
Johan Nykopp	27 May 1906	France Le Vésinet	28 April 1993	Diplomat	10 times Bilderberger
John Inglis	June 1906	United Kingdom Frittenden	29 October 1972	Spook	UK Director of Naval Intelligence from 1954 to 1960. In this capacity, he attempted to cover-up the "Buster Crabb affair" in 1956.
Valerio Borghese	6 June 1906	Italy Rome Lazio	26 August 1974	Spook Mariner Deep state operative	Organized a failed coup in Italy and was exiled.
Lee Pressman	1 July 1906	New York US Lower East Side	20 November 1969	Spook Lawyer	US labor attorney and earlier a US government functionary, alleged to have been a spy for Soviet intelligence during the mid-1930s.
Fernand Dehousse	3 July 1906	Liège	10 August 1976	Politician	Belgian politician active in the construction of what later would become the European Union. Attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s
Dillon Anderson	14 July 1906	Texas Cynthia McKinney	28 January 1974	Spook
Edward Clark	15 July 1906	Texas San Augustine	16 September 1992	Diplomat Spook
Jacob von Julin	23 July 1906	Finland Hangö	1 June 1986	Industrialist	Finnish industrialist who went to the 1971 Bilderberg
Wilhelm Drexelius	31 July 1906	Germany Altona	22 March 1974	Politician Lawyer	Hamburg politician and Vice Mayor.
William Hayter	1 August 1906		28 March 1995	Diplomat
Louis Bloomfield	8 August 1906	Canada Quebec Westmount	19 July 1984	Spook Deep state operative	Canadian Zionist and spook tied to the assassination of John F. Kennedy through the CIA front organization Permindex.
Gilberto Bernardini	28 August 1906	Italy Fiesole	4 August 1995	Physicist	Italian physicist and academic. Director of CERN 1957-64.
Denis de Rougement	8 September 1906	Switzerland Couvet Canton of Neuchâtel	6 December 1985	Academic	Attended the first 4 Bilderbergs. Promoted European federalism
José Figueres	25 September 1906	San Ramón Alajuela	8 June 1990	Spook Politician Businessperson	President of Costa Rica on three occasions. During his first term in office he abolished the country's army. He had an uneasy relationship with the CIA, who twice tried but failed to assassinate him, despite him working closely with the agency on many issues.
Walter Berchtold	1 October 1906		23 January 1986	Businessperson	Swiss businessman and double Bilderberger
Klaus Mehnert	10 October 1906		2 January 1984	Journalist Scientist	German scientist who attended the 1959 Bilderberg
Hannah Arendt	14 October 1906	Germany Hanover	4 December 1975	Philosopher Academic	Philosopher
Michael Stewart	6 November 1906	United Kingdom Kent Bromley	13 March 1990	Politician Deep state functionary	UK deep state functionary who caught a Bilderberg wind at the 1964 Bilderberg
Arne Skaug	6 November 1906	Norway Horten	4 March 1974	Diplomat Politician Economist Civil servant	Norwegian diplomat who was made Ambassador to the UK the year after attending the 1961 Bilderberg
H. C. Hansen	8 November 1906		19 February 1960	Politician	Danish PM who was US informant and blatantly lied about nuclear weapons.
Curtis LeMay	15 November 1906	Ohio Columbus	1 October 1990	Spook Soldier
George Anderson	15 December 1906	New York United States	20 March 1992	Diplomat Mariner	Admiral in the United States Navy and a diplomat. As the Chief of Naval Operations between 1961 and 1963, he was in charge of the US blockade of Cuba during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Donald Hiss	15 December 1906	Baltimore	18 May 1989	Spook	The younger brother of Alger Hiss. Donald Hiss's name was mentioned during the 1948 hearings wherein his more famous and older brother, Alger, was accused of spying for the Soviet Union, and two years later convicted of perjury before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
William M. Martin	17 December 1906	United States Missouri St. Louis	27 July 1998
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