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1905 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2034. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1905 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1905

• January 26, 1905 – The world’s largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3106.75 carat, is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
• February 4, 1905 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology.
• April 4, 1905 – In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamsala.
• May 5, 1905 – The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
• May 28, 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
• June 12, 1905 – The Servants of India Society was established in Pune, India by Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
• September 5, 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
• September 23, 1905 – Norway and Sweden sign the “Karlstad treaty”, peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
• October 17, 1905 – The October Manifesto issued by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
• October 26, 1905 – Sweden accepted the independence of Norway.

Who Were Born On 1905?

• January 11, 1905 – Clyde Kluckhohn, American anthropologist and theorist (d. 1960)
• January 17, 1905 – Guillermo Stábile, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 1966)
• March 28, 1905 – Marlin Perkins, American zoologist and television host (d. 1986)
• April 9, 1905 – J. William Fulbright, American lawyer and politician (d. 1995)
• April 14, 1905 – Georg Lammers, German sprinter (d. 1987)
• May 12, 1905 – Édouard Rinfret, Canadian lawyer and politician, Postmaster General of Canada (d. 1994)
• October 18, 1905 – Jan Gies, Dutch activist (d. 1993)
• October 22, 1905 – Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French pianist and composer (d. 1969)
• October 26, 1905 – George Bernard Flahiff, Canadian cardinal (d. 1989)
• December 7, 1905 – Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (d. 1973)