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July 5, 1905: Australian PM George Reid replaced by Alfred Deakin
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July 27, 1905: U.S. Secretary Taft and Japan's Prime Minister Katsura reach agreement

July 1, 1905 (Saturday)

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  • Hundreds of people died in the flooding of the Mexican state of Guanajuato.
  • A federal grand jury in Chicago indicted five corporations and 17 people for violations of the Sherman Act after charges were brought by the U.S. Department of Justice in an antitrust prosecution.[1]
  • China's government ordered all provincial governors and viceroys to put a stop to anti-American protests.
  • Charles J. Bonaparte (the great-nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte) became the new U.S. Secretary of the Navy.[1]
  • Died: U.S. Secretary of State John Hay died suddenly. Funeral services were conducted on July 5 with President Theodore Roosevelt and Vice President Charles Fairbanks attending. To succeed Hay, Roosevelt appointed Elihu Root, who was confirmed and took office on July 19.[1]

July 2, 1905 (Sunday)

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July 3, 1905 (Monday)

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July 4, 1905 (Tuesday)

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July 5, 1905 (Wednesday)

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July 6, 1905 (Thursday)

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July 7, 1905 (Friday)

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July 8, 1905 (Saturday)

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July 9, 1905 (Sunday)

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  • Romania returned the battleship Potemkin to the Imperial Russian Navy the day after the mutineering crew had been granted asylum at the Black Sea port of Constanța.

July 10, 1905 (Monday)

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  • A Japanese expedition took control of the Russian island of Sakhalin after a short battle. Before retreating, the Russian Navy commander burned the government buildings and destroyed the coast defense guns, as well as destroying much of the Russian administrative buildings at Korsakov.
  • Field Marshal Lord Roberts declared in a speech at the House of Lords that the British Army was totally unfit for war and called for conscription of additional young men into the service.
  • Portsmouth, New Hampshire was agreed upon by the U.S., Japan and Russia to negotiate the terms of the treaty to end the Russo-Japanese War.
  • Born: Thomas Gomez (Sabino Tomás Gómez, Jr.), American stage and film actor known for Ride the Pink Horse; in New York City (d. 1971)

July 11, 1905 (Tuesday)

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July 12, 1905 (Wednesday)

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July 13, 1905 (Thursday)

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  • Britain's Prime Minister Balfour declared that he was opposed to using the draft to increase the strength of the British Army.
  • Born:
    • General Alfredo M. Santos, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines from 1962 to 1965; in Santa Cruz (d. 1990)
    • Magda Foy, American child actress known as "The Solax Kid" for her many films for the Solax Studio; in New York City (d. 2000)

July 14, 1905 (Friday)

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July 15, 1905 (Saturday)

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Leblanc and his popular character, Lupin

July 16, 1905 (Sunday)

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Julius Marx (left) at age 12
  • Aged 14, Julius Henry Marx made his show business debut, appearing as a boy singer with the Gene Leroy Trio at the Ramona Theater in Grand Rapids, Michigan as part of a vaudeville act. He would later become famous as comedian Groucho Marx.[9]

July 17, 1905 (Monday)

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July 18, 1905 (Tuesday)

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July 19, 1905 (Wednesday)

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  • The Congress of Russian Zemstvos opened at Moscow, to make plans for setting the form of the Duma, Russia's first national assembly.[12]

July 20, 1905 (Thursday)

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  • The British House of Commons narrowly voted a resolution of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Balfour, by a majority of three votes. Balfour announced on July 24 that he would not resign.[12]

July 21, 1905 (Friday)

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USS Bennington

July 22, 1905 (Saturday)

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July 23, 1905 (Sunday)

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July 24, 1905 (Monday)

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July 25, 1905 (Tuesday)

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July 26, 1905 (Wednesday)

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  • The British House of Commons rejected a bill that would have limited the length of parliament to no more than five years.[12]
  • Born: Alex Radcliffe, American baseball player and Negro American League star; in Mobile, Alabama (d. 1983)

July 27, 1905 (Thursday)

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July 28, 1905 (Friday)

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Frankie Neil

July 29, 1905 (Saturday)

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July 30, 1905 (Sunday)

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July 31, 1905 (Monday)

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  • Japan completed its conquest of Russia's island of Sakhalin with the surrender of the remaining Russian garrison of 3,200 men and 70 officers commanded by Governor Mikhail Lyapunov.[12] The two nations would later agree to divide Sakhalin as part of the Portsmouth treaty.
  • Japan secured a commitment from the Korean Empire to open the three Korean ports to international trade.[12]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i The American Monthly Review of Reviews (August 1905) pp. 158-161
  2. ^ Cordery, Stacey (2007). Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker. Penguin Books. pp. 117–135.
  3. ^ "Game Warden Guy M. Bradley, National Audubon Society, Florida". The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
  4. ^ Melvyn Jones, The Making of Sheffield (Wharncliffe Books, 2004) p. 158
  5. ^ "Conversations around the World: Report of the International Conversations between the Anglican Communion and the Baptist World Alliance", in Growth in Agreement III: International Dialogue Texts and Agreed Statements, 1998-2005 (Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007) p.335
  6. ^ "NZ suicide bombing a world first", by Gerard Hindmarsh, The Press (Christchurch), January 16, 2016. p. A13
  7. ^ Current Biography Yearbook. H. W. Wilson Company. 1974. p. 45.
  8. ^ "Yemeni opposition to Ottoman rule: an overview", by Abdul Yaccob, in Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies (2012), pp. 411–419
  9. ^ Robert S. Bader, Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage (Northwestern University Press, 2016) p. 31
  10. ^ William Ochsenwald, Religion, Society, and the State in Arabia: The Hijaz under Ottoman Control, 1840-1908 (Ohio State University Press, 1984)
  11. ^ "Dropped to Death— Aeronaut Fell 2,000 Feet With His Machine", Washington Post, July 19, 1905, p. 1
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n The American Monthly Review of Reviews (September 1905) pp. 283-286