Today in History for January 1905

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 21 of 21

1st - 9 hour work day for diamond miners
2nd - Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine
2nd - Japanese troops capture Port Arthur
2nd - The American anarcho-syndicalist union known as the Industrial Workers of the World forms.
5th - Charles Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara
5th - National Association of Audubon Society incorporates
9th - Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops (1/22 NS)
14th - Hubbell, Shubert & Smith's musical "Fontana," premieres in NYC
15th - Coen de Koning becomes world champion all-round skater
16th - Baseball outfielder Frank Huelsman completes eighth transaction in 8 months
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
17th - Punchboards patented by Charles Brewer & C G Scannell, Chicago
18th - French government of Combes falls
22nd - Bloody Sunday: Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
25th - Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa
26th - Arnold Schoenberg's "Pelleas und Melissande," premieres in Vienna
26th - Han Yong-woon [Bongwan, Manhae] (1879-1944) ordained a monk in Korea
26th - World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found
27th - Maurice Rouvier forms government in France
31st - 1st auto to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach
31st - Carroll Wright appointed 1st US Commissioner of Labor

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 40 of 40

1st - Melvin Price, (Rep-D-IL, 1945- )
1st - Stanisław Mazur, Polish mathematician (d. 1981)
1st - Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (d. 1985)
2nd - Michael Kemp Tippett, English composer/conductor (Child of our Time)
2nd - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (d. 1938)
3rd - Dante Giacosa, engineer/designer
3rd - Ray Milland, Neath Wales, actor (Lost Weekend-Acad Award 1945)
3rd - Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961)
4th - Sterling Holloway, Cedartown Ga, actor (Waldo-Life of Riley)
6th - Eric Frank Russell, UK, sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space, Dark Tides)
7th - Francis Taylor, builder
8th - Carl Gustav Hempel, German Logical Positivist philosopher
8th - Giacinto Scelsi, composer
11th - John Henry Jacques, co-operative retailer
11th - Clyde Kluckhohn, American anthropologist (d. 1960)
12th - James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (d. 1997)
13th - Percy Humphrey, musician
14th - Takeo Fukuda, 67th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1995)
15th - Torin Thatcher, English actor (d. 1981)
16th - Ernesto Halffter, composer
17th - Franz Schmid, Germany, ascended northside of Matterhorn (1931)
17th - Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (d. 1966)
17th - Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (d. 2005)
18th - Chick Chandler, Kingston NY, actor (Barney-One Happy Family)
18th - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (d. 2002)
19th - Anne Schumacher Hummert, radio pioneer
19th - Oveta Culp Hobby, government official/newspaper publisher/CEO (Houston Post)
21st - Christian Dior, Normandy France, fashion designer (long-skirted look)
21st - Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (d. 1978)
23rd - David Newell, Mo, actor (Runaway Bride, White Heat, Dangerous Curves)
23rd - Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges)
26th - Charles Lane, SF California, actor (Homer-Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show), (d. 2007)
26th - John Carmel Heenan, Essex, cardinal archbp of Westminster (1963-75)
26th - Maria Augusta von Trapp, Austria, singer, inspired "Sound of Music"
26th - Marquess of Bath, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
27th - Howard McNear, LA California, actor (Floyd-Andy Griffith Show, Jetsons)
27th - Luther Diamond, radio personality
29th - Barnett Newmann, US painter (postpainterly abstraction)
31st - Anna Blaman, [Johanna P Vrugt], Dutch writer (Wife & Friend)
31st - John O'Hara, Pottstown Penn, novelist (Appointment at Samarra)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 6 of 6

10th - Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835)
11th - Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Hasidic rabbi (b. 1847)
13th - George Thorn, Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
14th - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company), dies at 64
19th - Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
20th - Stanislaw Pilinski, composer, dies at 65