April 1905 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1905 British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya.
• 02 Apr 1905 Cairo to Cape Town railway opens
• 04 Apr 1905 Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 370,000.
• 06 Apr 1905 ''Lochner v. New York'': The Supreme Court of the United States invalidates New York's 8-hour-day law.
• 12 Apr 1905 French Dufaux brothers test helicopter.
• 17 Apr 1905 US Supreme court judges maximum work day unconstitutional.
• 19 Apr 1905 9th Boston Marathon won by Fred Lorz of New York in 2:38:25.4.
• 22 Apr 1905 Operations begin uniting conservatory of Nature Monument in Amsterdam.
• 25 Apr 1905 Whites win right to vote in South Africa.
• 27 Apr 1905 World Exposition opens in Luik.
• 29 Apr 1905 Pierre de Brazza lands in Libreville Gabon.

Famous Birthday

• Attila József

  Hungarian poet and educator (d. 1937).

• Jean Vigo

  French film director, a creative genius known as film's Rimbaud.

• Eugène Bozza

  French composer and conductor (d. 1991).

• Guy de Polignac
• Tony Manero (golfer)
• Robert Penn Warren

  American writer (Born 1905).

• Heinrich Meier-Parm

  German writer, a dramatist and writer of novels and short stories, a philosopher, humanist and master of rhetoric.

• Jean-Marie Euzet

  Séte Painters.

• Pat Brown

  American politician, a lawyer from 1927.

• Kurt Herbert Adler
• Serge Lifar
• James W Fulbright
• Emmanuel Mounier

  French philosopher, editor and essayist.

• Waldeck Rochet

  French communist politician.

• Pierre Schneiter
• James A Mollinson
• Albert Simonin

  French novelist and screenwriter of the French film noir genre and police movies.

• Jean Pierre-Bloch

  French Resistant of the Second World War as an activist, being a former president of the International League against Racism and...

• Helen B

  M Fennell Joseph anti-apartheid writer (Side by Side).

• Bill Raisch

  one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive).

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Famous Deaths

• Fitzhugh Lee

  American Confederate general (Born 1835).

• Constantin Meunier Belgian painter/sculptor

  dies at age 73.

• Jacob Olie Dutch photographer

  dies at about age 70.

• Ignacio Cervantes composer

  dies at age 57.

• Gedeon Ouimet

  Quebec politician (Born 1823).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Prince's Orchestra - Coax Me Medley
2. Richard Jose - When I'm Away from You, Dear
3. Richard Jose - The Day That You Grew Colder
4. Byron G. Harlan - It Makes Me Think of Home, Sweet Home
5. Henry Burr (aka Irving Gillette) - In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree