July 1905 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Jul 1 Albert Einstein introduces his theory of special relativity

Jul 3 Kuyper government forms in Holland

Election of Interest

Jul 6 Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time

Jul 7 127°F (53°C), Parker, Arizona (state record until 1994)
Jul 8 Part of Angel Island in San Francisco Bay allocated for Immigration Detention Center
Jul 8 The soldiers of the Russian battleship "Potemkin" who mutinied, surrender to Romanian authorities, who turn ship over to Russian authorities soon after

Event of Interest

Jul 10 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court

Queen of the Netherlands Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

Event of Interest

Jul 11 Black intellectuals and activists led by W.E.B. Du Bois organize the civil rights Niagara Movement

Jul 12 The British and Japanese renew their alliance (of January 1902) for 10 years and agree to provide mutual support if attacked by other power
Jul 19 Llamas war party attacks group of 60, fleeing French mission at Tzekou, (Chinese-Tibetan border) murdering most with Scottish botanist George Forrest escaping by hiding for nine days [1]
Jul 22 Philadelphia Athletic's Weldon Henley no-hits St Louis Browns, 6-0

Treaty of Interest

Jul 24 Tsar Nicholas II (Russia) and Emperor Wilhelm II (Germany) sign the Björkö Treaty, whereby each country agrees to come to the other's defense if attacked by European powers

Agreement of Interest

Jul 29 US Secretary of War William Howard Taft makes secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura agreeing to Japanese free rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the US in the Philippines

Jul 30 Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms
Jul 31 Matumbi rebellion at Samanga, German East Africa

Birthdays in History

Jul 4 Irving Johnson, American sail training pioneer and adventurer, born in Hadley, Massachusetts (d. 1991)
Jul 4 Lionel Trilling, American literary critic and author (1969 Poses Award, The Liberal Imagination), born in NYC, New York (d. 1975)
Jul 9 Myles Horton, American educator and Civil Rights Movement teacher, born in Savannah, Tennessee (d. 1990)
Jul 10 Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician, born in Hildesheim, Germany (d. 1948)
Jul 12 Prince John of the United Kingdom, youngest son of English King George V, born in York Cottage, Sandringham (d. 1919)
Jul 13 Alfredo M. Santos, First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War II hero (d. 1990)
Jul 19 Edgar Snow, American author and journalist (Red star over China), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1972)
Jul 20 Molly Mary Nesta Keane, writer
Jul 21 Diana Trilling, American critic and writer (d. 1996)
Jul 25 Denys Watkins-Pitchford, British writer and illustrator (The Little Grey Men), born in Lamport, Northamptonshire (d. 1990)
Jul 25 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-British author (Crowds and Power) and winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, born in Ruse, Bulgaria (d. 1994)
Jul 27 Robert L. May, American advertising copy writer and creator of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, born in Arverne, New York (d. 1976)

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961)

Jul 29 Swedish public servant, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61) and posthumous Nobel Peace Prize winner (1961), born in Jönköping, Sweden

Jul 29 Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006)
Jul 31 Trenchard Cox, British museum director, born in London (d. 1995)

Deaths in History

Jul 4 Élisée Reclus, French anarchist (b. 1830)
Jul 5 Carel Victor Gerritsen, Dutch politician and free thinker (husband of suffragette Aletta Jacobs), dies at 55
Jul 16 Bryan Morel Thomas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 69
Jul 23 Jean-Jacques Henner, French painter, dies at 76
Jul 27 Robert Bullock, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 76