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The following events occurred in January 1905:

January 22, 1905: Over 140 Russian protesters killed by police outside the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg (painting by Ivan Vladimirov)
A contemporary painting in 1905 by Vladimir Makovsky

January 1, 1905 (Sunday)

January 2, 1905 (Monday)

January 3, 1905 (Tuesday)

  • Japan took former possession of Port Arthur and renamed it Ryojun, holding it for 40 years. The area would revert in 1945 to China and is now the Lushunkou District.[2]
  • Born: Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu, Japanese philanthropist, younger brother of Emperor Hirohito; in at the Aoyama Palace in Tokyo (d. 1987)[4]

January 4, 1905 (Wednesday)

 
Cantacuzino
  • Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino became Prime Minister of Romania for the second time, having previously served from 1899 to 1900, and remains in office for more than two years.[5]
  • The city of Bend, Oregon, plotted out in 1900 by Alexander Drake, was incorporated as a town for local logging companies, and would have a population of 536 in 1910. By the year 2020, it would have almost 100,000 residents.[6]
  • Born: Sterling Holloway, American character actor and voice actor known for providing the distinct sound of Winnie the Pooh for Disney films; in Cedartown, Georgia (d. 1992)

January 5, 1905 (Thursday)

January 6, 1905 (Friday)

January 7, 1905 (Saturday)

  • The Colorado State Legislature entered an agreement with Alva Adams to allow him to take office as Governor of Colorado while a challenge by Republican candidate James Peabody was being investigated. Under the arrangement, Adams took office on January 10 on condition that he was to step down voluntarily if the legislature concluded that Peabody had won the popular vote. Adams resigned on March 17 after the investigation concluded that Peabody had won.[2]

January 8, 1905 (Sunday)

  • At the excavation site in Egypt near Saqqara, where British archaeologist Howard Carter was an inspector for the Egyptian Antiquities Service, the Egyptian guards of the site were in a fist fight with 15 tourists from France, many of whom were intoxicated. The government of France filed a formal protest with Egyptian authorities, and Carter took the side of his workers. To appease the French in the "Saqqara Affair", Carter was fired from his job and without formal employment for the next three years.[8] In 1923, he would gain worldwide fame in finding the tomb of Tutankhamen.

January 9, 1905 (Monday)

January 10, 1905 (Tuesday)

January 11, 1905 (Wednesday)

  • Under the supervision of five editors, work began on the comprehensive Catholic Encyclopedia, subtitled "An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church" and published by the Robert Appleton Company. The first volume would appear in 1907.
  • Died: Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, 57, Polish Talmudic scholar Hasidic rabbi

January 12, 1905 (Thursday)

  • Marie Walcker, the last victim of German-born American serial killer and bigamist Johann Otto Hoch, died of poisoning in Chicago a month after her their marriage. On January 30, Hoch was arrested in New York City, initially for having married and deserted multiple women (one estimate is 45 women in ten states from 1888 to 1905 [10]), but soon was charged with Marie Walcker's murder, for which he would be convicted. Hoch was suspected of perhaps as many as 50 murders, but only charged with Walcker's death. He would be hanged on February 23, 1906.[11]
  • Born: Tex Ritter (stage name for Woodward Maurice Ritter), American actor and singer; in Murvaul, Texas (d. 1974)[12]

January 13, 1905 (Friday)

  • Alexander, Prince of Lippe, the last sovereign monarch of the German principality of Lippe, died after a nominal reign of 10 years, leaving no children to succeed him and ending the Lippe-Detmold line. Prince Alexander's power had been exercised by regents because of his mental illness, and the question of a successor would not be resolved until October until the last regent, Alexander's cousin Leopold IV, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld. After World War One, the principality would be abolished and would exist as a "Free State" until the end of World War Two; it is now part of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.[13]
  • Born: Kay Francis, American stage and film actress and Warner Brothers leading lady; in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory (d. 1968)

January 14, 1905 (Saturday)

January 15, 1905 (Sunday)

January 16, 1905 (Monday)

  • The Ottawa Hockey Club retained the Stanley Cup, winning the best-2-of-3 series in the second and deciding game against the Dawson City Nuggets, who had traveled 4,000 miles (6,400 km) from Canada's Yukon Territory by dog sled, ship, and train over more than three weeks to challenge Ottawa for the Cup.[16] After prevailing in the first game, 9 to 2 over the Nuggets on January 13, the day after the exhausted Nugget players arrived in the capital, the champions easily won Game 2, with a final score of Ottawa Hockey Club 23, Dawson City Nuggets 2.[17]

January 17, 1905 (Tuesday)

January 18, 1905 (Wednesday)

January 19, 1905 (Thursday)

  • Tsar Nicholas II of the Russian Empire narrowly escaped injury during the "blessing of the waters" of the Neva River near Saint Petersburg. One of the guns firing a salute malfunctioned and sent grapeshot down into the crowd of dignitaries, narrowly missing the Tsar.[2]
  • Died: Debendranath Tagore, 87, Indian philosopher who led the Brahmoism religious movement (in 1848) (b. 1817)[19]

January 20, 1905 (Friday)

  • An arbitration treaty was signed at Washington between the United States, Sweden, and Norway.[2]
  • Lobbyists from the U.S. territory of New Mexico presented their arguments against being consolidated with the Arizona Territory for admission as a single state.[2]
  • Died: Gyula Szapáry, 72, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary 1890 to 1892

January 21, 1905 (Saturday)

  • The Dominican Republic signed an agreement with the United States to allow the U.S. to administer the collection of customs taxes for Santo Domingo for 50 years, with the U.S. to assume responsibility for payment of the Republic's debts to foreign nations from Dominican income. The agreement was done as an exercise of the "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine.[20]
  • Born: Christian Dior, French fashion designer and founder of the Christian Dior SE line; in Granville, Manche département (died of heart attack, 1957)

January 22, 1905 (Sunday)

January 23, 1905 (Monday)

 
Senator Smoot

January 24, 1905 (Tuesday)

 
 
Maurice Rouvier and Émile Combes

January 25, 1905 (Wednesday)

January 26, 1905 (Thursday)

January 27, 1905 (Friday)

  • The Nelson Act was passed into law in the United States, providing for racial segregation of schools in the Alaska Territory. While providing for establishment of a school district in any unincorporated community with a population of at least 20 "white children and children of mixed blood who lead a civilized life", the Act also required that "the education of Eskimos and Indians in Alaska shall remain under the direction and control of the Secretary of the Interior, and school for and among the Eskimos and Indians of Alaska shall have the same right to be admitted to any Indian boarding school as the Indian children in the States or Territories of the United States."[23]
  • Died: Watson Heston, 58, American editorial cartoonist and author of The Bible Comically Illustrated

January 28, 1905 (Saturday)

  • Two disasters in the Russo-Japanese War took place in different battles. In Manchuria, near Linchinpu, a group of 200 Japanese soldiers armed only with rifles was thrown into battle against Russian Army defenders who had two machine guns available. When the Japanese got within 900 feet (270 m) of the Russians, the firing of 1,000 cartridges began with most of the soldiers killed or wounded within two minutes.[24] At the village of Sandepu, 36 miles (58 km) south of Mukden, General Oskar Gripenberg ordered the Russian Army to attack, but the Japanese repelled the attackers with a bayonet charge. Most of the Russian soldiers were killed or wounded, and those who didn't die immediately were left behind in the retreat and froze to death overnight.[25]

January 29, 1905 (Sunday)

January 30, 1905 (Monday)

  • The U.S. Supreme Court rendered its unanimous decision in the landmark case of Swift & Co. v. United States, upholding as constitutional the right of the federal government to use antitrust laws to regulate monopolies based on the Commerce Clause of Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution ("Congress... shall have power to regulate Commerce... among the several States") [20]

January 31, 1905 (Tuesday)

 
J. Hazen Hyde
  • What has been called "the greatest ball of the Gilded Age" [26] was held by James Hazen Hyde, the 28-year-old heir to the fortune of the founder of the Equitable Life Assurance Association" at New York City's Sherry Hotel, who spent $200,000 for a "Louis XV costume ball" for invited guests.[27] Based on purchasing power at the time, the cost of the party would have been equivalent to more than 6.7 million dollars in 2022.[28]
  • Born: John O'Hara, American novelist and short-story writer; in Pottsville, Pennsylvania (d. 1970)[29]
  • Died: Konstantin Savitsky, 60, Russian painter

References

  1. ^ Naval War College (U.S.) (1991). Naval War College Review. Naval War College. p. 52.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l The American Monthly Review of Reviews (February 1905) pp. 154-156
  3. ^ Discographies of British Composers: Sir Michael Tippett. British Institute of Recorded Sound. 1980. p. 89.
  4. ^ John Scott-Keltie; Mortimer Epstein (28 December 2016). The Statesman's Year-Book. Springer. p. 1026. ISBN 978-0-230-27055-8.
  5. ^ "Cantacuzino, Gheorghe Grigore", in Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century, ed. by Wojciech Roszkowski and Jan Kofman (Taylor & Francis, 2016) p. 1862
  6. ^ Jon Abernathy, Bend Beer: A History of Brewing in Central Oregon (Arcadia Publishing, 2014)
  7. ^ Alvin H. Marill (1993). More Theatre: M-Z. Scarecrow Press. p. 1097. ISBN 978-0-8108-2717-2.
  8. ^ H. V. F. Winstone, Howard Carter and the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun (Barzan, 2006) pp. 88-92
  9. ^ "Forty Warships Gather— Review of the Greatest American Assemblage in History", New York Daily Tribune, January 10, 1905, p. 8
  10. ^ "Hoch, Johann Otto", in The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, ed by Susan Hall (WildBlue Press, 2020)
  11. ^ "The Lady-killer", by A. I. Schutzer, American Heritage magazine (October 1964)
  12. ^ Michael McCall; John Rumble; Paul Kingsbury (16 December 2004). The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Oxford University Press. p. 1812. ISBN 978-0-19-984044-1.
  13. ^ Beéche, Arturo E. (October 2006). "A Headless House? The Dynastic Dispute of the House of Lippe". European Royal History Journal (LIII): 13.
  14. ^ Current Biography Yearbook. H. W. Wilson Company. 1975. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-8242-0551-5.
  15. ^ "Loen Accidents in 1905 and 1936", by Christer Hoel, Fjords.com
  16. ^ Stan Fischler, Golden Ice: The Greatest Teams in Hockey History (McGraw Hill Ryerson, 1990) p. 261
  17. ^ "Klondike Hockeyites Meet an Overwhelming Defeat at the Capital— Twenty Three Goals Scored by Ottaw to Two by Dawson Team", Yukon World, January 17, 1905, p. 1
  18. ^ Piers Paul Read, The Dreyfus Affair: The Scandal That Tore France in Two (Bloomsbury, 2012) p. 338
  19. ^ Andrew Robinson (1989). The Art of Rabindranath Tagore. Rupa. p. 46.
  20. ^ a b c d e f g The American Monthly Review of Reviews (March 1905) pp. 283-286
  21. ^ Marie France Pochna (1996). Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New. Arcade Publishing. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-55970-340-6.
  22. ^ John Arthur Garraty; Mark Christopher Carnes (1999). American National Biography. Oxford University Press. p. 801. ISBN 978-0-19-512800-0.
  23. ^ David S. Case and David A. Voluck, eds., Alaska Natives and American Laws (University of Alaska Press, 2012) p. 203
  24. ^ Anthony Smith, Machine Gun: The Story of the Men and the Weapon That Changed the Face of War (St. Martin's Press, 2004) p. 149
  25. ^ Jonathan Clements, Mannerheim: President, Soldier, Spy (Haus Publishing, 2012)
  26. ^ "Panic of 1907", in The 100 Most Significant Events in American Business: An Encyclopedia, by Quentin R. Skrabec (Greenwood Publishing, 2012) p. 134
  27. ^ Michael Lesy and Lisa Stoffer, Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910 (W. W. Norton, 2013) pp. 195-197
  28. ^ "$200,000 in 1905 → 2022 | Inflation Calculator". www.in2013dollars.com.
  29. ^ Matthew J. Bruccoli (15 July 1975). The O'Hara Concern: A Biography of John O'Hara. University of Pittsburgh Pre. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-8229-7471-0.

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11 1905 Wednesday 12 January 12 1905 Thursday 13 January 13 1905 Friday 14 January 14 1905 Saturday 15 January 15 1905 Sunday 16 January 16 1905 Monday 17 January 17 1905 Tuesday 18 January 18 1905 Wednesday 19 January 19 1905 Thursday 20 January 20 1905 Friday 21 January 21 1905 Saturday 22 January 22 1905 Sunday 23 January 23 1905 Monday 24 January 24 1905 Tuesday 25 January 25 1905 Wednesday 26 January 26 1905 Thursday 27 January 27 1905 Friday 28 January 28 1905 Saturday 29 January 29 1905 Sunday 30 January 30 1905 Monday 31 January 31 1905 Tuesday 32 ReferencesJanuary 1 1905 Sunday EditIn a major defeat in the Russo Japanese War General Anatoly Stessel of the Russian Army surrendered Port Arthur located in mainland China to the Japanese 1 Born Malek Bennabi Algerian philosopher in Constantine French Algeria d 1973 January 2 1905 Monday EditAs terms of surrender were drawn up for Russia the Russian squadron of five battleships and three cruisers put into anchor at Sainte Marie Island now Nosy Boraha off the coast of Africa and Madagascar 2 Born Michael Tippett English composer in Wetherden Suffolk d 1998 3 Anna May Wong stage name for Wong Liu Tsong American actress and the first Chinese American film star in the U S in Los Angeles d 1961 Died Clara Augusta Jones Trask 65 American dime novelist who wrote hundreds of books under the pen names Hero Strong and Clara Augusta January 3 1905 Tuesday EditJapan took former possession of Port Arthur and renamed it Ryojun holding it for 40 years The area would revert in 1945 to China and is now the Lushunkou District 2 Born Nobuhito Prince Takamatsu Japanese philanthropist younger brother of Emperor Hirohito in at the Aoyama Palace in Tokyo d 1987 4 January 4 1905 Wednesday Edit Cantacuzino Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino became Prime Minister of Romania for the second time having previously served from 1899 to 1900 and remains in office for more than two years 5 The city of Bend Oregon plotted out in 1900 by Alexander Drake was incorporated as a town for local logging companies and would have a population of 536 in 1910 By the year 2020 it would have almost 100 000 residents 6 Born Sterling Holloway American character actor and voice actor known for providing the distinct sound of Winnie the Pooh for Disney films in Cedartown Georgia d 1992 January 5 1905 Thursday EditBaroness Emma Orczy s play The Scarlet Pimpernel the forerunner of her novel opened at the New Theatre in London beginning a run of 122 performances and numerous revivals 7 January 6 1905 Friday EditThe Lick Observatory announced the discovery of a sixth moon of Jupiter made by their astronomer Charles D Perrine Unlike the first five Jovian satellites discovered the sixth one would be referred to as Jupiter VI until 1975 and is now called Himalia 2 The U S Senate confirmed the nomination of William D Crum an African American to the office of collector of customs at Charleston South Carolina after Crum s nomination by President Theodore Roosevelt 2 Danish prime minister Johan Henrik Deuntzer and his cabinet resigned over a disagreement regarding Denmark s military 2 Died Jose Maria Gabriel y Galan 34 Spanish poet died of pneumoniaJanuary 7 1905 Saturday EditThe Colorado State Legislature entered an agreement with Alva Adams to allow him to take office as Governor of Colorado while a challenge by Republican candidate James Peabody was being investigated Under the arrangement Adams took office on January 10 on condition that he was to step down voluntarily if the legislature concluded that Peabody had won the popular vote Adams resigned on March 17 after the investigation concluded that Peabody had won 2 January 8 1905 Sunday EditAt the excavation site in Egypt near Saqqara where British archaeologist Howard Carter was an inspector for the Egyptian Antiquities Service the Egyptian guards of the site were in a fist fight with 15 tourists from France many of whom were intoxicated The government of France filed a formal protest with Egyptian authorities and Carter took the side of his workers To appease the French in the Saqqara Affair Carter was fired from his job and without formal employment for the next three years 8 In 1923 he would gain worldwide fame in finding the tomb of Tutankhamen January 9 1905 Monday EditU S Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton and Admiral of the Navy George Dewey reviewed the largest concentration of American warships up to that time as 40 ships including six of the most powerful battleships afloat were brought into port at Hampton Roads Virginia 9 Died Louise Michel 74 French anarchist known as the French grand dame of anarchy January 10 1905 Tuesday EditChile and Bolivia signed a treaty of peace and amity 2 January 11 1905 Wednesday EditUnder the supervision of five editors work began on the comprehensive Catholic Encyclopedia subtitled An International Work of Reference on the Constitution Doctrine Discipline and History of the Catholic Church and published by the Robert Appleton Company The first volume would appear in 1907 Died Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter 57 Polish Talmudic scholar Hasidic rabbiJanuary 12 1905 Thursday EditMarie Walcker the last victim of German born American serial killer and bigamist Johann Otto Hoch died of poisoning in Chicago a month after her their marriage On January 30 Hoch was arrested in New York City initially for having married and deserted multiple women one estimate is 45 women in ten states from 1888 to 1905 10 but soon was charged with Marie Walcker s murder for which he would be convicted Hoch was suspected of perhaps as many as 50 murders but only charged with Walcker s death He would be hanged on February 23 1906 11 Born Tex Ritter stage name for Woodward Maurice Ritter American actor and singer in Murvaul Texas d 1974 12 January 13 1905 Friday EditAlexander Prince of Lippe the last sovereign monarch of the German principality of Lippe died after a nominal reign of 10 years leaving no children to succeed him and ending the Lippe Detmold line Prince Alexander s power had been exercised by regents because of his mental illness and the question of a successor would not be resolved until October until the last regent Alexander s cousin Leopold IV Count of Lippe Biesterfeld After World War One the principality would be abolished and would exist as a Free State until the end of World War Two it is now part of the German state of North Rhine Westphalia 13 Born Kay Francis American stage and film actress and Warner Brothers leading lady in Oklahoma City Oklahoma Territory d 1968 January 14 1905 Saturday EditJens Christian Christensen took office as the new Prime Minister of Denmark 2 Born Takeo Fukuda Prime Minister of Japan from 1976 to 1978 in Gunma Gunma Prefecture d 1995 14 Died Ernst Abbe 64 German optical instruments developer who created the Abbe refractometer and the Abbe number measure of wave dispersionJanuary 15 1905 Sunday EditA series of three 133 feet 41 m high tsunamis killed 61 people in the Norway in the villages of Ytre Nesdal and Bodal after a rockslide swept down Mount Ramnefjell and crashed into Lake Lovatnet 15 Born Torin Thatcher English stage and film actor known for his portrayal of villains in Bombay British India now Mumbai d 1981 January 16 1905 Monday EditThe Ottawa Hockey Club retained the Stanley Cup winning the best 2 of 3 series in the second and deciding game against the Dawson City Nuggets who had traveled 4 000 miles 6 400 km from Canada s Yukon Territory by dog sled ship and train over more than three weeks to challenge Ottawa for the Cup 16 After prevailing in the first game 9 to 2 over the Nuggets on January 13 the day after the exhausted Nugget players arrived in the capital the champions easily won Game 2 with a final score of Ottawa Hockey Club 23 Dawson City Nuggets 2 17 January 17 1905 Tuesday EditIn France Prime Minister Emile Combes and his cabinet announced their resignations after being implicated in the Affair of the Cards L Affaire des Fiches a system set up by the War Ministry to purge the French Army officers corps of Jesuits 18 Born D R Kaprekar Indian recreational mathematician in Dahanu Bombay province British India d 1986 Kaprekar numbers where the square of the number can be divided into two parts that add up to the original number such as 45 or 99 are named in his honor Guillermo Stabile Argentine soccer football centre forward who was the top scorer in the 1930 World Cup while playing for the Argentina national team later the manager for the Argentina team from 1939 to 1960 in Buenos Aires d 1966 Saeb Salam Prime Minister of Lebanon in 1952 1953 1960 1961 and 1970 1973 in Beirut Ottoman Empire d 2000 January 18 1905 Wednesday EditU S District Judge Charles Swayne of Florida was impeached by the U S House of Representatives 2 Born Joseph Bonanno Italian born American gangster nicknamed Joe Bananas and crime boss for the Bonanno crime family from 1931 to 1968 as Giuseppe Carlo Bonnano in Castellammare del Golfo Sicily d 2002 January 19 1905 Thursday EditTsar Nicholas II of the Russian Empire narrowly escaped injury during the blessing of the waters of the Neva River near Saint Petersburg One of the guns firing a salute malfunctioned and sent grapeshot down into the crowd of dignitaries narrowly missing the Tsar 2 Died Debendranath Tagore 87 Indian philosopher who led the Brahmoism religious movement in 1848 b 1817 19 January 20 1905 Friday EditAn arbitration treaty was signed at Washington between the United States Sweden and Norway 2 Lobbyists from the U S territory of New Mexico presented their arguments against being consolidated with the Arizona Territory for admission as a single state 2 Died Gyula Szapary 72 Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary 1890 to 1892January 21 1905 Saturday EditThe Dominican Republic signed an agreement with the United States to allow the U S to administer the collection of customs taxes for Santo Domingo for 50 years with the U S to assume responsibility for payment of the Republic s debts to foreign nations from Dominican income The agreement was done as an exercise of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine 20 Born Christian Dior French fashion designer and founder of the Christian Dior SE line in Granville Manche departement died of heart attack 1957 January 22 1905 Sunday EditThe Bloody Sunday massacre of peaceful Russian demonstrators at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg took place leading to an unsuccessful uprising On the Old Style calendar used at the time in Russia the date was January 9 Died Clara Harrison Stranahan 73 American philanthropist and the founder of Barnard College the women s counterpart to Columbia University General Ștefan Fălcoianu 69 Chief of the Romanian General Staff 1886 to 1894 and Romania s Minister of War 1884 to 1886January 23 1905 Monday Edit Senator Smoot U S Senator Reed Smoot of Utah who also served at the time as one of the Quorum of the Twelve in the governing body of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints refused to testify before a Senate committee about the secret endowment ceremony of church members 20 January 24 1905 Tuesday Edit Maurice Rouvier and Emile Combes Maurice Rouvier formed a government as the new Prime Minister of France succeeding Emile Combes 20 Born J Howard Marshall American oil billionaire in Philadelphia d 1995 21 January 25 1905 Wednesday EditTsar Nicholas II appointed General Dmitri Trepov to be the Governor General of Saint Petersburg with absolute power to issue regulations to keep order 20 January 26 1905 Thursday EditThe Cullinan Diamond at 1 37 pounds 0 62 kg the largest diamond in ever discovered was unearthed at the Premier No 2 mine in Cullinan in the Transvaal Province The Imperial Russian Army opened fire on demonstrators in Riga Governorate of Livonia killing 73 people and injuring 200 in the Russian Revolution of 1905 Elections were held in Hungary for the 413 seats in the Orszaggyules the Kingdom s parliament within Austria Hungary Voters overwhelmingly rejected the Liberal Party led by Prime Minister Istvan Tisza that had ruled Hungary since 1875 and the Liberals lost 118 of their 277 seats but Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria Hungary in his capacity as King Ferenc Jozsef ignored the results and kept Tisza in power 20 Born Maria von Trapp Austrian born singer and leader of the Trapp Family Singers whose life was dramatized in The Sound of Music as Maria Augusta Kutschera in Vienna Austria Hungary d 1987 22 Charles Lane American character actor for 72 years on film and television in San Francisco d 2007 January 27 1905 Friday EditThe Nelson Act was passed into law in the United States providing for racial segregation of schools in the Alaska Territory While providing for establishment of a school district in any unincorporated community with a population of at least 20 white children and children of mixed blood who lead a civilized life the Act also required that the education of Eskimos and Indians in Alaska shall remain under the direction and control of the Secretary of the Interior and school for and among the Eskimos and Indians of Alaska shall have the same right to be admitted to any Indian boarding school as the Indian children in the States or Territories of the United States 23 Died Watson Heston 58 American editorial cartoonist and author of The Bible Comically IllustratedJanuary 28 1905 Saturday EditTwo disasters in the Russo Japanese War took place in different battles In Manchuria near Linchinpu a group of 200 Japanese soldiers armed only with rifles was thrown into battle against Russian Army defenders who had two machine guns available When the Japanese got within 900 feet 270 m of the Russians the firing of 1 000 cartridges began with most of the soldiers killed or wounded within two minutes 24 At the village of Sandepu 36 miles 58 km south of Mukden General Oskar Gripenberg ordered the Russian Army to attack but the Japanese repelled the attackers with a bayonet charge Most of the Russian soldiers were killed or wounded and those who didn t die immediately were left behind in the retreat and froze to death overnight 25 January 29 1905 Sunday EditRioting broke out in Warsaw at the time under Russian Imperial rule with a Russian Governor General 20 Born Barnett Newman American abstract expressionist painter in New York City d 1970 January 30 1905 Monday EditThe U S Supreme Court rendered its unanimous decision in the landmark case of Swift amp Co v United States upholding as constitutional the right of the federal government to use antitrust laws to regulate monopolies based on the Commerce Clause of Article I Section 8 of the U S Constitution Congress shall have power to regulate Commerce among the several States 20 January 31 1905 Tuesday Edit J Hazen Hyde What has been called the greatest ball of the Gilded Age 26 was held by James Hazen Hyde the 28 year old heir to the fortune of the founder of the Equitable Life Assurance Association at New York City s Sherry Hotel who spent 200 000 for a Louis XV costume ball for invited guests 27 Based on purchasing power at the time the cost of the party would have been equivalent to more than 6 7 million dollars in 2022 28 Born John O Hara American novelist and short story writer in Pottsville Pennsylvania d 1970 29 Died Konstantin Savitsky 60 Russian painterReferences Edit Naval War College U S 1991 Naval War College Review Naval War College p 52 a b c d e f g h i j k l The American Monthly Review of Reviews February 1905 pp 154 156 Discographies of British Composers Sir Michael Tippett British Institute of Recorded Sound 1980 p 89 John Scott Keltie Mortimer Epstein 28 December 2016 The Statesman s Year Book Springer p 1026 ISBN 978 0 230 27055 8 Cantacuzino Gheorghe Grigore in Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century ed by Wojciech Roszkowski and Jan Kofman Taylor amp Francis 2016 p 1862 Jon Abernathy Bend Beer A History of Brewing in Central Oregon Arcadia Publishing 2014 Alvin H Marill 1993 More Theatre M Z Scarecrow Press p 1097 ISBN 978 0 8108 2717 2 H V F Winstone Howard Carter and the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun Barzan 2006 pp 88 92 Forty Warships Gather Review of the Greatest American Assemblage in History New York Daily Tribune January 10 1905 p 8 Hoch Johann Otto in The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers ed by Susan Hall WildBlue Press 2020 The Lady killer by A I Schutzer American Heritage magazine October 1964 Michael McCall John Rumble Paul Kingsbury 16 December 2004 The Encyclopedia of Country Music Oxford University Press p 1812 ISBN 978 0 19 984044 1 Beeche Arturo E October 2006 A Headless House The Dynastic Dispute of the House of Lippe European Royal History Journal LIII 13 Current Biography Yearbook H W Wilson Company 1975 p 133 ISBN 978 0 8242 0551 5 Loen Accidents in 1905 and 1936 by Christer Hoel Fjords com Stan Fischler Golden Ice The Greatest Teams in Hockey History McGraw Hill Ryerson 1990 p 261 Klondike Hockeyites Meet an Overwhelming Defeat at the Capital Twenty Three Goals Scored by Ottaw to Two by Dawson Team Yukon World January 17 1905 p 1 Piers Paul Read The Dreyfus Affair The Scandal That Tore France in Two Bloomsbury 2012 p 338 Andrew Robinson 1989 The Art of Rabindranath Tagore Rupa p 46 a b c d e f g The American Monthly Review of Reviews March 1905 pp 283 286 Marie France Pochna 1996 Christian Dior The Man who Made the World Look New Arcade Publishing p 5 ISBN 978 1 55970 340 6 John Arthur Garraty Mark Christopher Carnes 1999 American National Biography Oxford University Press p 801 ISBN 978 0 19 512800 0 David S Case and David A Voluck eds Alaska Natives and American Laws University of Alaska Press 2012 p 203 Anthony Smith Machine Gun The Story of the Men and the Weapon That Changed the Face of War St Martin s Press 2004 p 149 Jonathan Clements Mannerheim President Soldier Spy Haus Publishing 2012 Panic of 1907 in The 100 Most Significant Events in American Business An Encyclopedia by Quentin R Skrabec Greenwood Publishing 2012 p 134 Michael Lesy and Lisa Stoffer Repast Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century 1900 1910 W W Norton 2013 pp 195 197 200 000 in 1905 2022 Inflation Calculator www in2013dollars com Matthew J Bruccoli 15 July 1975 The O Hara Concern A Biography of John O Hara University of Pittsburgh Pre p 9 ISBN 978 0 8229 7471 0 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title January 1905 amp oldid 1135892498, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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