Page 10: Historical Events In 1905

Aug 19   Fitzhugh Lee, US pilot/vice-admiral (WW II, Navy Cross)   

Aug 19   Russian tsar installs "Imperial Duma," without legislative powers.   

Aug 20   Duncan Macrae, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Casino Royale, Kidnapped)   

Aug 21   Isadore I Friz Freleng, KC MO, animator (Warner Bros cartoons).   

Aug 21   Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80.   

Aug 22   Wade Crosby, IA, actor (Sign of Wolf, Tales of Robin Hood)   

Aug 23   Leonard Constant Lambert, London England, composer (King Pest).   

Aug 24   Chicago Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings.   

Aug 24   Donald Douglas, Scotland, actor (I Love You Again).   

Aug 25   Clara Bow, Bkln, actress (Wings, Down to the Sea in Ships).   

Aug 27   Alexander Johnston, CEO (Board of Inland Revenue)   

Aug 28   Cyril Walters, cricketer (solid England batsman of 30's).   

Aug 29   Lan Adomian, composer.   

Aug 29   Pierre de Brazza leaves Brazzaville.   

Aug 30   Baseball slugger Ty Cobb makes his major league debut.   

Aug 30   Pogoro/Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa.   

Aug 30   Ty Cobb's inaugural major league at bat (Detroit Tigers).   

Aug 31   25th US Mens Tennis: Beals C Wright beats Holcombe Ward (62 61 119)   

Aug 31   Dore Schary, producer/writer/director (Act 1, Boys Town, Big City).   

Sep 01   Alberta and Saskatchewan become 8th and 9th Canadian provinces.   

Sep 01   Gervase Hughes, composer.   

Sep 02   Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer, dies at 79   

Sep 03   Carl David Anderson, NYC, physicist (1936 Nobel Prize for physics).   

Sep 04   Mary Renault, [Mary Challens], writer (King Must Die, Funeral Games)   

Sep 04   Pierre de Braza, founder (French Congo), dies   

Sep 05   Arthur Koestler, Hungary, British writer (Arrow in Blue).   

Sep 05   Lillian Mortimer's "No Mother to Guide," premieres in Detroit   

Sep 05   The war in Korea and Manchuria, between Japan and Russian, ends   

Sep 05   Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War.   

Sep 06   Atlanta Life Insurance Company established.   

Sep 06   Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms.   

Sep 07   John Whitley, British air-marshal.   

Sep 08   Henry Wilcoxon, actor (Cleopatra, Jericho, 10 Commandments).   

Sep 08   Pitts Pirates strand NL record 18 men on base and lose to Reds 8-3   

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Jan 01   Melvin price: (rep-d-il, 1945- )   

Jan 01   StanisÅ‚aw mazur: Polish mathematician   

Jan 01   Kamatari fujiwara: Japanese actor    

Jan 02   Michael kemp tippett: English composer/conductor (child of our time)   

Jan 02   Lev schnirelmann: Russian mathematician   

Jan 03   Dante giacosa: Engineer/designer   

Jan 03   Ray milland: Neath wales, actor (lost weekend-acad award 1945)   

Jan 03   Anna may wong: American actress    

Jan 10   Kārlis baumanis: Latvian composer (b. 1835)   

Jan 11   Yehudah aryeh leib alter: Hasidic rabbi (b. 1847)   

Jan 13   George thorn: Premier of queensland (b. 1838)   

Jan 14   Ernst abbe: German physicist (carl zeiss optics company),    

Jan 19   Debendranath tagore: Indian philosopher (b. 1817)   

Jan 20   Stanislaw pilinski: Composer,    

Feb 01   Oswald aschenbach: German painter,   

Feb 04   Louis-ernest barrias: French sculptor (b. 1841)