January 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
February 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
June 14 » The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size, resulting in an Anglo-German naval arms race.
June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
December 19 » Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
Day of death January 26, 1906
The temperature on January 26, 1906 was between 0.3 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
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