October 1905 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1905 Frantisek Pavlik is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leos Janacek to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
• 02 Oct 1905 HMS ''Dreadnought'' is laid down, revolutionizing battleship design and triggering a naval arms race.
• 05 Oct 1905 Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
• 09 Oct 1905 Philadelphia Athletics meet Giants in World Series, Giants win 3-0
• 14 Oct 1905 New York Giants beats Philadelphia Athletics, four games to one in second World Series, Giant's Christy Mathewson's third straight world series shutout.
• 15 Oct 1905 Union workers at NVV rejects safety demands
• 16 Oct 1905 The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
• 20 Oct 1905 Russian tsar allows Polish people to speak Polish
• 21 Oct 1905 England Pilgrim Association beats All New York 11, 7-1 in soccer at Polo Grounds.
• 26 Oct 1905 Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
• 29 Oct 1905 Hottentot chief Hendrik Witbooi fataly injured
• 30 Oct 1905 Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
• 31 Oct 1905 Great revolutionary demonstration for amnesty in St. Petersburg

Famous Birthday

• Félix Houphouët-Boigny

  Ivorian union leader and politician 1st President of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 1993).

• Helen Wills Moody

  American tennis player (d. 1998).

• Leon Orthel

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Felix Bloch

  Swiss-American physicist who studied in Zurich and Leipzig, but left Germany in 1933.

• Jacques Renouvin
• Joseph Kosma

  Hungarian-French pianist and composer (d. 1969).

• Frederic Dannay
• Roland Toutain

  French actor, songwriter and stuntman, most well known for playing the aviator André Jurieux in Jean Renoir's film "La Règle du jeu.

• Ruth Bernhard

  American photographer (Born 1905).

• Adrien Jans
• Angelo Schiavio
• Jean-Marie Villot

  French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Lyon from 1965 to 1967, Prefect of the Congregation for Council...

• Karl Jansky

  Czechoslovakia -- Discoverer (cosmic radio emissions in 1932).

• Jean Arthur

  NYC, New York -- Actress (Shane, Mr Smith Goes to Washington).

• Laurence Dowdall

  Lawyer.

• Franco Albini

  Italian architect.

• Edna Deanne Fuelling

  Dancer choreographer / drama teacher.

• Harry Broadhurst

  Airman.

• Wild Bill Elliott

  Pattonsburg, Missouri -- Actor (Beyond the Sacramento).

• Dag Ivar Wiren

  Composer.

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Famous Deaths

• Henry Irving [John H Brodribb]

  English actor (Hamlet), dies at 67.

• Jose Teodor Vilar

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Jose Maria de Heredia

  Cuban / French sonnet poet, dies at 62.

• Sir Henry Irving

  the first British actor to be knighted (Born 1838).

• Etienne Desmarteau

  Canadian athlete (Born 1873).

• Alphonse Allais

  French humorist / writer (Le chat noir).

• Ferdinand von Richthofen

  German geographer and academic (d. 1905).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Vess Ossman - Little Johnny Jones Medley
2. Billy Murray - Tammany
3. Harry Macdonough - Dearie
4. Byron G. Harlan - Would You Care?
5. Harry Tally - My Irish Molly O