Page 12: Historical Events In 1905

Oct 09   Euphemia MacDonald, dance producer.   

Oct 09   Phila A's meet Giants in World Series, Giants win 3-0   

Oct 10   Jane Winton, Phila, actress (Hell's Angel, Patsy, Don Juan)   

Oct 12   Rick Ferrell, baseball Hall of Fame catcher.   

Oct 13   Henry Irving, [John H Brodribb], English actor (Hamlet), dies at 67.   

Oct 14   NY Giants beats Phila A's, 4 games to 1 in 2nd World Series.   

Oct 15   Alexey Kozlovsky, composer.   

Oct 15   Claude Debussy's "La Mer," premieres   

Oct 16   Rex Bell, Chicago, cowboy actor (Cowboys and Injuns)/lt-gov (Nevada).   

Oct 16   The Partition of Bengal (India) occurred.   

Oct 17   Franco Albini, Italian architect   

Oct 18   Felix Houphouet-Boigny, pres of Ivory coast (1960-93).   

Oct 20   Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days.   

Oct 21   England Pilgrim Assn beats All NY 11, 7-1 in soccer at Polo Grounds.   

Oct 21   Jose Teodor Vilar, composer, dies at 69   

Oct 22   Constance Bennett, NYC, actress (Easiest Way, Ladies in Love)   

Oct 23   Alexander Shamil'yevich Melik-Pashayev, composer   

Oct 23   Edward Milton Royle's "Squaw Man," premieres in NYC   

Oct 24   Elizabeth Poston, composer   

Oct 26   1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia   

Oct 26   The inaugural Soviet (workers' council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia   

Oct 26   Union of Sweden and Norway ends   

Oct 28   Alphonse Allais, French humorist/writer (Le chat noir), dies.   

Oct 28   Harry Broadhurst, airman   

Oct 29   Hottentot chief Hendrik Witbooi fataly injured.   

Oct 29   Laurence Dowdall, lawyer   

Oct 30   "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties.   

Oct 30   Aspirin developed by the German company Bayer.   

Oct 30   Christian Darnton, composer   

Oct 31   Great revolutionary demonstration for amnesty in St Petersburg   

Nov 02   Fred Lipmann, watchmaker   

Nov 03   Csar Nicholas II of Russia signs a document of amnesty for the political prisoners   

Nov 03   Lois Mailou Jones, US painter (Peasants on Parade)   

Nov 04   Harbor strike against importing grain elevators in Rotterdam.   

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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)