March 1905 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1905 Australian Conservative leader Richard Butler takes office as Premier of South Australia.
• 03 Mar 1905 US Forest Service forms.
• 04 Mar 1905 Theodore Roosevelt begins second term in office as US President.
• 05 Mar 1905 Cassie Chadwick is sentenced for 14 years in Cleveland, Ohio for fraud.
• 10 Mar 1905 Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang).
• 11 Mar 1905 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage Thisles, two games to 1.
• 14 Mar 1905 Chelsea FC is founded.
• 17 Mar 1905 Eleanor Roosevelt marries Franklin Roosevelt in New York.
• 20 Mar 1905 Grover Shoe Factory disaster: A boiler explosion, building collapse and fire in Brockton, Massachusetts kills 58.
• 23 Mar 1905 Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
• 25 Mar 1905 Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South.
• 28 Mar 1905 Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used.
• 31 Mar 1905 German emperor Wilhelm II visits Tanger.

Famous Birthday

• Albert Speer

  German Nazi architect, author and, at one time, the second most powerful man in Germany.

• Léo Campion

  French writer, songwriter.

• Félix Labisse

  French artist, a painter and set designer.

• Raymond Aron

  French philosopher, sociologist, journalist, and political scientist.

• Paul Grimault

  French cartoonista anf film animator.

• Marie Glory

  French actress, she made her first film in 1924, a silent film named "Les Miracles des Loups.

• Robert Donat

  Actor (Citadel, Goodbye Mr Chips, 39 Steps), dies at 53.

• Maurice Bayrou

  French agricultural engineer and deputy for the Socialist Party.

• Philip Ahn

  American actor (d. 1978).

• Gebhard Frei

  Swiss professor at the C.G.

• Bob Wills

  American singer-songwriter (d. 1975).

• Marc Blitzstein

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- Composer (Cradle Will Rock).

• Big Maceo Merriweather
• Christine Papin
• Richard Haydn

  British actor (Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 80.

• Robert Donat Withington Manchester England actor (Goodbye Mr Chips

  Citadel).

• John Kirkpatrick New York City

  New York, pianist (Concord Sonata).

• Gilroy Roberts

  US chief coin engraver (1948-64).

• Mollie Parnis New York City

  New York, fashion designer (Mollie Roberts Collection).

• Thomas Townsend Brown

  American scientist (d. 1985).

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Famous Deaths

• John Henninger Reagan

  American Confederate politician (Born 1818).

• Rudolf von Alt Austrian painter

  dies at age 92.

• Arnold Kerdijk Dutch liberal/founder (Social Weekly)

  dies at age 60.

• Makar Grigori Ekmalyan composer

  dies at age 49.

• Jules Verne sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days)

  dies at age 77.

• Maurice Barrymore

  British-American actor and member of a noted theatrical family.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Peerless Quartet (Columbia Male Quartet) - Kentucky Babe
2. Haydn Quartet - Tell Me with Your Eyes
3. Harry Macdonough & John Bieling - Marguerite
4. Frank Stanley - In the Shadow of the Pyramid
5. Frank Stanley & Byron G. Harlan - Soldier Boy