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1905
World History Timeline - 1906
Finnish women win the right to vote, making Finland the first European nation to grant women suffrage.
Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a muck-raking novel about the American meat-packing industry.
German doctor August Wasserman develops a test for syphilis.
The British Labour party is formed from the Labour Representation Committee.
Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
Maria Montessori opens the first day-care center in Rome. Her Montessori method of early childhood education, part of the progressive education movement, spreads through the world.
The French Supreme Court of Appeals exonorates Alfred Dreyfus, ending the ten-year long Dreyfus Affair.
The Pure Food and Drug Act offers American consumers protection from adulterated and tainted food products and patented medicines.
Britain forces the Ottoman Turks to cede the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.
Lawyer Mohandas K. Gandhi begins a campaign of nonviolent resistance to protest the treatment of Indians in South Africa.
Picasso paints his portrait of American expatriate Gertrude Stein.
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