July 5, 1905: Australian PM George Reid replaced by Alfred Deakin
July 27, 1905: U.S. Secretary Taft and Japan's Prime Minister Katsura reach agreement
July 1, 1905 (Saturday)
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.
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]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced more than 1,200 civil lawsuits against American railroad companies for violation of federal laws regarding transportation of livestock.[1]
The remains of
John Paul Jones were turned over to U.S. Navy officials in
Paris, and a special squadron departed from
Cherbourg on July 8 to send the remains to the U.S.
U.S. President Roosevelt sent his 21-year-old daughter,
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, and her party on a diplomatic journey to Japan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, China and Korea.[2]
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)
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)
Kikutaro Baba, Japanese expert on mollusks who identified over 100 species and for whom at least 11 species are named, including Cyerce kikutarobabai; in
Fukuoka (d. 2001)
Died: Muhammad Abduh, 56, Islamic scholar and the Grand Mufti of Egypt since 1899
July 12, 1905 (Wednesday)
The
University of Sheffield, an amalgamation of Firth College, the Medical Institution and the Technical School, was officially opened by
King Edward VII in England.[4]
The first World Congress of the Baptist Church ended with the founding of the
Baptist World Alliance.[5]
Orville Wright suffered minor injuries in a test-flight of the Wright Brothers' new Wright Flyer III airplane, prompting them to begin a major redesign of the aircraft.
The first known
suicide attack by a civilian (as opposed to sacrifices made in military combat) took place when a New Zealand farmer, Joseph Sewell, walked into a courtroom in
Murchison (where he was the defendant in a civil lawsuit) and announced that he intended to detonate dynamite sticks strapped to his body. Sewell was ushered from the courtroom to the street and set off the dynamite after a police officer (who survived the blast) attempted to arrest him.[6]
The popular fictional character
Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief, was introduced in France. Created by French writer
Maurice Leblanc, the first Lupin story appeared in the magazine Je sais tout, with the publication of the story ""The Arrest of Arsène Lupin" ("L'Arrestation d'Arsène Lupin"). Lupin went on to be featured in 17 novels and 39 short novels, and has been featured in plays, films and several television series.
Ottoman Empire forces, led by General
Ahmed Fayzi Pasha, began a three-pronged attack on
Yemen, capturing
Sana'a on August 30.[8]
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]
Died: Daniel J. Maloney, 26, American aviator, was killed while demonstrating
John J. Montgomery's Montgomery Glider in the skies over
Santa Clara College in
San Jose, California. After the glider was released from a balloon, Maloney was guiding it when the aircraft began falling apart, and both he and the aircraft plummeted from an altitude of 2,000 feet (610 m). [11]
July 19, 1905 (Wednesday)
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)
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)
Sixty-six members of the crew of the
USS Bennington were killed in an explosion of the U.S. Navy gunboat in the harbor at
San Diego.[12]
The
Taft–Katsura agreement was reached in
Tokyo between U.S. Secretary of State (and future U.S. president)
William Howard Taft, and Japan's Prime Minister, Count
Katsura Tarō, to discuss their respective positions regarding Korea and the Philippines. Though no formal agreement was signed, the U.S. agreed to Korea becoming a protectorate of Japan, in return for Japan's recognition of U.S. jurisdiction over the Philippines.
Frankie Neil became the new world bantamweight boxing champion by defeating title holder Harry Tenny in a 25-round bout at
Colma, California.
July 29, 1905 (Saturday)
In
California, the government of the City of
Los Angeles announced plans to build an
aqueduct to bring water from the
Owens River to adequately supply the city's residents. The
Los Angeles Aqueduct would become operational in 1913 and transform the city into the second largest metropolis into the United States within less than a century.
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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abcdefghiThe American Monthly Review of Reviews (August 1905) pp. 158-161
^Cordery, Stacey (2007). Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker.
Penguin Books. pp. 117–135.
^Melvyn Jones, The Making of Sheffield (Wharncliffe Books, 2004) p. 158
^"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
^"NZ suicide bombing a world first", by Gerard Hindmarsh, The Press (Christchurch), January 16, 2016. p. A13