1905

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Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1870s  1880s  1890s  - 1900s -  1910s  1920s  1930s
Years:	1902 1903 1904 - 1905 - 1906 1907 1908

[change] Events

• January 22 - "Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg (Russia)
• April 1 - SOS, the Morse code signal for distress, is created by Germany.
• June 7 - Norway becomes an independant country.
• October 28 - Cardiff, Wales becomes a city in the United Kingdom.
• Albert Einstein publishes his special theory of relativity.
• A workers' revolt, supported by the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin, takes place in Odessa, Russia.

[change] Births

• January 2 - Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998)
• February 2 - Ayn Rand, American writer (d. 1982)
• March 9 - Rex Warner, English writer (d. 1986)
• May 16 - Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)
• June 21 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher (d. 1980)
• July 29 - Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
• July 29 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish United Nations Secretary-General (d. 1961)
• August 24 - Arthur Crudup, American blues musician (d. 1976)
• August 25 - Faustyna Kowalska, Polish nun and mystic (d. 1938)
• September 18 - Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (d. 1990)
• December 5 - John Whedon, American screenwriter (d. 1991)
• December 11 - Erskine Hamilton Childers, 4th President of Ireland (d. 1974)
• December 21 - Anthony Powell, English writer (d. 2000)
• December 22 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (d. 1982)

[change] Deaths

• March 24 - Jules Verne, French writer (b. 1828)