1905 facts for kids
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1870s 1880s 1890s – 1900s – 1910s 1920s 1930s |
| Years: | 1902 1903 1904 – 1905 – 1906 1907 1908 |
1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
Art, music, theatre, literature
- October 15 – Little Nemo in Slumberland debuts in American newspapers.
- A Little Princess is published
Events
- January 22 – "Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg (Russia)
- April 1 – SOS, the Morse code signal for distress, is created by Germany.
- June 7 – Norway becomes an independent country.
- October 28 – Cardiff, Wales becomes a city in the United Kingdom.
- Albert Einstein publishes his special theory of relativity.
- A workers' revolt, supported by the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin, takes place in Odessa, Russia.
Births
- January 2 – Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998)
- February 2 – Ayn Rand, American writer (d. 1982)
- March 9 – Rex Warner, English writer (d. 1986)
- May 16 – Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)
- June 21 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher (d. 1980)
- July 29 – Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
- July 29 – Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish United Nations Secretary-General (d. 1961)
- August 24 – Arthur Crudup, American blues musician (d. 1976)
- August 25 – Faustyna Kowalska, Polish nun and mystic (d. 1938)
- September 18 – Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (d. 1990)
- December 5 – John Whedon, American screenwriter (d. 1991)
- December 11 – Erskine Hamilton Childers, 4th President of Ireland (d. 1974)
- December 21 – Anthony Powell, English writer (d. 2000)
- December 22 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (d. 1982)
Deaths
- March 24 – Jules Verne, French writer (b. 1828)
Images for kids
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"Baby New Year", a cartoon by John T. McCutcheon depicting the new year 1905 chasing the old 1904 into the history books
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1905: Einstein's "miracle year"
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March 3: Nicholas II of Russia creates the Duma
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May 15: Las Vegas is founded with auction of 110 acres (0.45 km2)
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October 2: HMS Dreadnought
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Takashi Shimura
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Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
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Adolph von Menzel
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Giovanni Battista Scalabrini
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Małgorzata Szewczyk
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Rene Goblet
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See also
In Spanish: 1905 para niños
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