Top News Stories from 1905
World Events
World Statistics
Population: 4.378 billion
population by decade Nobel Peace Prize: Bertha von Suttner (Austria)
More World Statistics... - In Russo-Japanese War, Port Arthur surrenders to Japanese; Russia suffers other defeats.
- The Russian Revolution of 1905
begins on
Bloody Sunday
when troops fire onto a defenseless group of demonstrators in St. Petersburg. Strikes and riots follow. - Sailors on Russian battleship Potemkin mutiny; reforms, including first Duma, established by Czar Nicholas II’s
October Manifesto.
U.S. Events
U.S. Statistics
President: Theodore Roosevelt
Vice President: Charles W. Fairbanks
Population: 83,822,000
More U.S. Statistics... - Industrial Workers of the World is founded in Chicago with the hopes of uniting all workers and giving more control to unions.
- Numerous advancements in train service include 18-hour rides between New York and Chicago and the first train ever equipped with electric lights. Background: Railroads
Economics
Federal spending: $0.57 billion
Unemployment: 4.3%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World Series
NY Giants d. Philadelphia A's (4-1)Stanley Cup
Ottawa Silver SevenWimbledon
Women: May Sutton d. D. Douglass (6-3 6-4)Men: Laurie Doherty d. N. Brookes (8-6 6-2 6-4)
Kentucky Derby Champion
AgileNCAA Football Champions
Chicago (10-0-0)Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Nobel Prize for Literature: Henryk Sienkiewicz (Poland)
More Entertainment Awards... Events
- Isadora Duncan establishes the first school of modern dance in Berlin.
- The first movie theater opens in Pittsburgh.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Adolf von Baeyer (Germany), for work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic combinations
Physics: Philipp Lenard (Germany), for work with cathode rays
Physiology or Medicine: Robert Koch (Germany), for work on tuberculosis
More Nobel Prizes in 1998... - Albert Einstein proposes the Theory of Relativity.
