Today in History for Year 1905

Months in Year 1905: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 185

Jan 1st - 9 hour work day for diamond miners
Jan 2nd - Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine
Jan 2nd - Japanese troops capture Port Arthur
Jan 2nd - The American anarcho-syndicalist union known as the Industrial Workers of the World forms.
Jan 5th - Charles Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara
Jan 5th - National Association of Audubon Society incorporates
Jan 9th - Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops (1/22 NS)
Jan 14th - Hubbell, Shubert & Smith's musical "Fontana," premieres in NYC
Jan 15th - Coen de Koning becomes world champion all-round skater
Jan 16th - Baseball outfielder Frank Huelsman completes eighth transaction in 8 months
Jan 16th - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Dawson City (Yukon) in 2 games Ottawa Silver 7 beats Dawson City (Yukon) 23-2 for Stanley Cup, this is most lopsided playoff game, Frank McGee scores 14 goals
Jan 17th - Punchboards patented by Charles Brewer & C G Scannell, Chicago
Jan 18th - French government of Combes falls
Jan 22nd - Bloody Sunday: Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
Jan 25th - Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa
Jan 26th - Arnold Schoenberg's "Pelleas und Melissande," premieres in Vienna
Jan 26th - Han Yong-woon [Bongwan, Manhae] (1879-1944) ordained a monk in Korea
Jan 26th - World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found
Jan 27th - Maurice Rouvier forms government in France
Jan 31st - 1st auto to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach
Jan 31st - Carroll Wright appointed 1st US Commissioner of Labor
Feb 1st - Hague soccer team ADO froms
Feb 1st - Hungarian premier Tisza resigns
Feb 7th - Dominican Rep signs treaty turning over customs collection to US
Feb 8th - Cyclone hit Tahiti & adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people
Feb 11th - James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299½-last pin breaks but stands
Feb 11th - Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Vehementer nos
Feb 13th - -29°F (-34°C) Pond, Arkansas (state record)
Feb 13th - -40°F (-40°C) Lebanon, Kansas (state record)
Feb 13th - -40°F (-40°C) Warsaw, Missouri (state record)
Feb 15th - 1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark)
Feb 16th - 1st US Esperanto club organizes in Boston
Feb 17th - Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall
Feb 18th - Frank Wedekind's "Hidada, oder Sein und Haben," premieres in Munich
Feb 23rd - Rotary Club International formed by 4 men in Chicago
Feb 24th - Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed
Feb 25th - Neth Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms
Mar 3rd - US Forest Service forms
Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann Mar 4th - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Elga," premieres in Berlin
Mar 10th - Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang)
Mar 10th - Eleftherios Venizelos asks the independence of Crete and its union with Greece again, starting the Cretan Revolution in Theriso.
Mar 11th - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage Thisles, 2 games to 1
Mar 25th - Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South
Mar 28th - Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used
Mar 31st - German emperor Wilhelm II visits Tanger
Apr 1st - British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya
Apr 2nd - Cairo-Capetown railway opens
Apr 4th - Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 20,000
Apr 5th - James Barrie's "Alice-sit-by-the-fire," premieres in London
Apr 12th - French Dufaux brothers test helicopter
Apr 12th - Hippodrome arena opens (NYC)
Apr 17th - US Supreme court judges maximum work day unconstitutional
Apr 17th - The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which held that the "right to free contract" was implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Apr 19th - 9th Boston Marathon won by Fred Lorz of NY in 2:38:25.4
Apr 22nd - Operations begin uniting conservatory of Nature monument Amsterdam
Apr 24th - 1st-class Cricket debut of Jack Hobbs, Surrey v Gentlemen (18 & 28)
Apr 24th - Senators execute a triple-play & beat Yankees 4-3
Apr 25th - Latest day of 1st-class cricket in an Aust season (NSW v Qld)
Apr 25th - Whites win right to vote in South Africa
Apr 26th - Cubs Jack McCarthy becomes only major league player to throw out 3 runners at plate in 1 game, all were ends of a double play
Apr 27th - World Exposition opens in Luik
Apr 29th - 2" rain falls in 10 mins in Taylor, TX
Apr 29th - Pierre de Brazza lands in Libreville Gabon
Apr 30th - 1st official soccer game between Belgium-Netherlands (1-4)
May 2nd - French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work
May 5th - Robert S Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender"
May 10th - 31st Kentucky Derby: Jack Martin aboard Agile wins in 2:100.75
May 13th - James J Jeffries retires as boxing champ
May 14th - 2nd official intl soccer match, Neth beats Belgium 4-0
May 15th - Las Vegas Nevada founded
May 15th - Pierre de Brazza reaches Leopoldville
May 17th - Waseda U of Tokyo defeats LA High School 5-3 in baseball
May 19th - Tom Jenkins beats Frank Gotcha for heavyweight wrestling champ
May 22nd - Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School
May 24th - 39th Belmont: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Tanya wins in 2:08
May 26th - A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia
May 27th - 30th Preakness: W Davis aboard Cairngore wins in 1:45.8
May 27th - Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima
May 29th - Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk Lithuania
May 31st - Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger
Jun 1st - Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon
Jun 6th - French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request
Jun 7th - Norway dissolves union with Sweden (in effect since 1814)
Jun 10th - 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Me
Jun 11th - Penns Railroad debuts fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs)
Jun 13th - NY Giant Christy Mathewson 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0
Jun 25th - Warsaw & Lodz revolt against Russian occupation
Jun 27th - Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship "Potemkin"
Jul 3rd - Kuyper government forms in Holland
Jul 3rd - Marvin Hart KOs Jack Hart in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
Jul 4th - Phila A's beat Boston Red Sox 4-2 in 20 inning game
Jul 6th - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
Jul 7th - 127°F (53°C), Parker Ariz (state record)
Jul 8th - Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center
Jul 10th - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court
Jul 11th - Black intellectuals & activists organize Niagara movement
Jul 11th - Niagara Movement founded by WEB Dubois
Jul 22nd - Phila Athletic's Weldon Henley no-hits St Louis Browns, 6-0
Last Emperor of Russia Nicholas II Jul 24th - Treaty of Bjorko: Emperor Wilhelm II/czar Nicholas II
Jul 30th - Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 430

Jan 1st - Melvin Price, (Rep-D-IL, 1945- )
Jan 1st - Stanisław Mazur, Polish mathematician (d. 1981)
Jan 1st - Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (d. 1985)
Jan 2nd - Michael Kemp Tippett, English composer/conductor (Child of our Time)
Jan 2nd - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (d. 1938)
Jan 3rd - Dante Giacosa, engineer/designer
Jan 3rd - Ray Milland, Neath Wales, actor (Lost Weekend-Acad Award 1945)
Jan 3rd - Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961)
Jan 4th - Sterling Holloway, Cedartown Ga, actor (Waldo-Life of Riley)
Jan 6th - Eric Frank Russell, UK, sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space, Dark Tides)
Jan 7th - Francis Taylor, builder
Jan 8th - Carl Gustav Hempel, German Logical Positivist philosopher
Jan 8th - Giacinto Scelsi, composer
Jan 11th - John Henry Jacques, co-operative retailer
Jan 11th - Clyde Kluckhohn, American anthropologist (d. 1960)
Jan 12th - James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (d. 1997)
Jan 13th - Percy Humphrey, musician
Jan 14th - Takeo Fukuda, 67th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1995)
Jan 15th - Torin Thatcher, English actor (d. 1981)
Jan 16th - Ernesto Halffter, composer
Jan 17th - Franz Schmid, Germany, ascended northside of Matterhorn (1931)
Jan 17th - Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (d. 1966)
Jan 17th - Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (d. 2005)
Jan 18th - Chick Chandler, Kingston NY, actor (Barney-One Happy Family)
Jan 18th - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (d. 2002)
Jan 19th - Anne Schumacher Hummert, radio pioneer
Jan 19th - Oveta Culp Hobby, government official/newspaper publisher/CEO (Houston Post)
Jan 21st - Christian Dior, Normandy France, fashion designer (long-skirted look)
Jan 21st - Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (d. 1978)
Jan 23rd - David Newell, Mo, actor (Runaway Bride, White Heat, Dangerous Curves)
Jan 23rd - Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges)
Jan 26th - Charles Lane, SF California, actor (Homer-Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show), (d. 2007)
Jan 26th - John Carmel Heenan, Essex, cardinal archbp of Westminster (1963-75)
Jan 26th - Maria Augusta von Trapp, Austria, singer, inspired "Sound of Music"
Jan 26th - Marquess of Bath, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
Jan 27th - Howard McNear, LA California, actor (Floyd-Andy Griffith Show, Jetsons)
Jan 27th - Luther Diamond, radio personality
Jan 29th - Barnett Newmann, US painter (postpainterly abstraction)
Jan 31st - Anna Blaman, [Johanna P Vrugt], Dutch writer (Wife & Friend)
Jan 31st - John O'Hara, Pottstown Penn, novelist (Appointment at Samarra)
Feb 1st - Emilio Segre
Feb 1st - Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg
Feb 2nd - Ayn Rand, writer (Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead)
Feb 2nd - Jean-Pierre Guerlain, cosmetics pioneer
Feb 2nd - Ayn Rand, Russian-born author and philosopher (d. 1982)
Feb 3rd - Arne Beurling, American mathematician(d. 1986)
Feb 4th - Eddie Foy Jr, New Rochelle NY, actor (Eddie-Fair Exchange)
Feb 4th - Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (d. 1986)
Feb 6th - Władysław Gomułka, Polish leader (d. 1982)
Feb 7th - Olf S von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish physiologist
Feb 7th - Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (L'Humanité, La Conspiration)
Feb 7th - Ulf Svante von Euler, Sweden, physiologist (Nobel 1970)
Feb 8th - Truman Bradley, MO, TV host (Science Fiction Theater)
Feb 10th - John Dierkes, OH, actor (Daughter of Dr Jekyll, Hanging Tree)
Feb 10th - Max Schubert, winemaker
Feb 10th - Vilko Ukmar, composer
Feb 10th - Walter Brown, sports organizer (NBA)
Feb 11th - Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Neth/Indonesian writer (Camp diary)
Feb 12th - Harry Bellaver, actor (Sgt Arcaro-Naked City)
Feb 14th - Thelma Ritter, Bkln NY, actress (Miracle on 34th Street)
Feb 15th - Harold Arlen, [Hyman Arluck], US, composer (Over the Rainbow)
Feb 16th - Jose Munoz Molleda, composer
Feb 16th - Lord Franks, British ambassador (to US)
Feb 20th - Jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (Acrobat)
Feb 22nd - Luis Sandi, composer
Feb 23rd - Leonidas Zoras, composer
Feb 24th - E Boyland, biochemist
Feb 24th - Guillaume Landre, composer
Feb 27th - Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director (Evil Eye)
Feb 27th - Franchot Tone, Niagara Falls NY, actor (Dr Freeland-Ben Casey)
Feb 28th - Glyn Jones, writer
Mar 1st - Pol le Roy, Flemish author/novelist/writer (Stroom)
Mar 1st - Doris Hare, Welsh actress (d. 2000)
Mar 2nd - Marc Blitzstein, Phila Pa, composer (Cradle Will Rock)
Mar 5th - Gilroy Roberts, US chief engraver (1948-64)
Mar 7th - Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author (Sputniki)
Mar 9th - Félix L V L J Labisse, French painter (libidoscaphes)
Mar 9th - Grigori Kozintsev, Kiev Ukraine, director (Hamlet, King Lear)
Mar 9th - Peter C Quennell, English biographer/critic (Byron in Italy)
Mar 9th - Rex Warner, English poet/writer (Wild Goose Chase)
Mar 10th - Rene Bernier, composer
Mar 10th - Richard Haydn, English actor (d. 1985)
Mar 14th - Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist
Mar 15th - Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg, attempted to assassinate Hitler
Mar 15th - Joe E Ross, comedian (Gunther Toody-Car 54, Ritzik-Phil Silvers Show)
Mar 16th - Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress (d. 1977)
Mar 18th - John Kirkpatrick, NYC, pianist (Concord Sonata)
Mar 18th - Mollie Parnis, NYC, fashion designer (Mollie Roberts Collection)
Mar 18th - Robert Donat, England, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Citadel)
Mar 18th - Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist (d. 1985)
Mar 19th - Albert Speer, German architect/minister of Armament (NSDAP)
Mar 20th - Jean Galia, French rugby footballer (d. 1949)
Mar 21st - Phyllis McGinley, US, poet (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters)
Mar 22nd - Carlo Alberto Pizzini, composer
Mar 22nd - Grigorij M Kosinzev, Russian director
Mar 22nd - Phyllis McGinley, poet
Mar 22nd - Ruth Page, US choreographer/ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion)
Mar 23rd - Paul Grimault, animator
Mar 23rd - Ralph Perring, Lord Mayor (London)
Mar 23rd - Lale Andersen, German singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 3 of 3

Mar 17th - Eleanor Roosevelt (20) marries Franklin D. Roosevelt (23) later 32nd US President in New York, & given away by her uncle, 26th President Theodore Roosevelt
Jun 15th - Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustav, Crown Prince of Sweden.
Oct 4th - 30th US President Calvin Coolidge (33) weds Grace Anna Goodhue (26) in Burlington, Vermont

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 69 of 69

Jan 10th - Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835)
Jan 11th - Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Hasidic rabbi (b. 1847)
Jan 13th - George Thorn, Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
Jan 14th - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company), dies at 64
Jan 19th - Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
Jan 20th - Stanislaw Pilinski, composer, dies at 65
Feb 1st - Oswald Aschenbach, German painter, dies at 77
Feb 4th - Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (b. 1841)
Feb 10th - Ignacy Krzyzanowski, composer, dies at 78
Feb 12th - Marcel Schwob, French writer/journalist (Coeur double), dies
Feb 13th - Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)
Feb 15th - Lewis Wallace, US diplomat/writer (Ben Hur), dies at 77
Feb 17th - Serge Alexandrovich, gov-gen Moscow, murdered
Feb 18th - Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International), dies at 75
Feb 20th - Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain
Feb 28th - Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist, dies at 85
Mar 6th - John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
Mar 12th - Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter, dies at 92
Mar 15th - Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch liberal/founder (Social Weekly), dies at 60
Mar 15th - B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norwegian author (Paa St Jorgen), dies at 58
Mar 19th - Makar Grigori Ekmalyan, composer, dies at 49
Mar 24th - Jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77
Mar 26th - Maurice Barrymore, actor; patriarch of the Barrymore family (b. 1849)
Apr 4th - Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at 73
Apr 23rd - Karel Komzak, composer, dies at 54
Apr 23rd - Gédéon Ouimet, Quebec politician (b. 1823)
Apr 25th - Jacob Olie, Dutch photographer, dies at about 70
Apr 28th - Fitzhugh Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1835)
Apr 29th - Ignacio Cervantes, composer, dies at 57
May 9th - Ernst Pauer, composer, dies at 78
May 23rd - Martinus W van AA Meerbeke, head-editor (Time), dies at 75
May 26th - Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker, dies
May 29th - Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer, dies at 55
Jun 4th - Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer, dies at 85
Jun 13th - Theodoros Delyannis, premier Greece, murdered
Jun 13th - Tippo-Tip, [Hamed ben Mohammed], Zanzibar merchant, dies at about 67
Jun 15th - Hermann von Wissmann, German African expl/gov East-Africa, dies
Jun 16th - Hermann von Wissmann, German explorer/governor of E Africa, dies at 51
Jun 22nd - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
Jun 30th - John Hay, US politician, dies
Jul 4th - Élisée Reclus, French anarchist (b. 1830)
Jul 5th - Carel V Gerritsen, free thinker, dies
Jul 8th - Walter Kittredge, American musician (b. 1834)
Jul 23rd - Jean-Jacques, painter, dies
Aug 10th - Kinjikitile "Bokero" Ngwale, E African prophet/rebel leader, hanged
Aug 14th - Mohammed Abdoe, Egyptian writing expert (Al'Oerwah al-Woethka), dies
Aug 14th - Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)
Aug 21st - Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80
Sep 2nd - Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer, dies at 79
Sep 4th - Pierre de Braza, founder (French Congo), dies
Sep 10th - Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
Sep 13th - René Goblet, French politician (b. 1828)
Sep 14th - Pietro/Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, 1st French Congo gov (1890-98), die
Sep 18th - George MacDonald, sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie), dies at 80
Sep 19th - Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist (b. 1845)
Sep 21st - Rudolf Baumbach, writer of German student drinking songs, dies at 64
Sep 25th - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)
Oct 2nd - Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuban/French sonnet poet, dies at 62
Oct 6th - Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer, dies
Oct 13th - Henry Irving, [John H Brodribb], English actor (Hamlet), dies at 67
Oct 21st - Jose Teodor Vilar, composer, dies at 69
Oct 28th - Alphonse Allais, French humorist/writer (Le chat noir), dies
Oct 29th - Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
Nov 2nd - Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817)
Nov 8th - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
Nov 17th - Adolf WAKF, duke of Nassau/grand duke of Luxembourg, dies at 88
Nov 17th - Philip EFMCBLG, earl of Flanders, dies
Nov 17th - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
Dec 9th - Henry Holmes, composer, dies at 66