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Events from the year1905 in the United States.

• President:Theodore Roosevelt (R-New York)
• Vice President:

vacant (until March 4)

Charles W. Fairbanks (R-Indiana) (starting March 4)

• Chief Justice:Melville Fuller (Illinois)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:Joseph Gurney Cannon (R-Illinois)
• Congress:58th (until March 4),59th (starting March 4)

• January 6 – The Senate confirms the nomination ofWilliam D. Crum, an African-American, to the office of collector of customs atCharleston, South Carolina after Crum's nomination by President Theodore Roosevelt.^[1]
• January 30 – The Supreme Court renders its unanimous decision in the landmark case ofSwift & Co. v. United States, allowing the federal government to regulate monopolies.^[2]
• March 4 – PresidentTheodore Roosevelt begins his first full term.Charles W. Fairbanks is sworn in asVice President of the United States.
• March 10 – InCleveland, Ohio,Cassie Chadwick is sentenced for 14 years in prison for fraud.
• March 17 –Franklin D. Roosevelt marries his fifth cousinEleanor Roosevelt; President Roosevelt, the bride's uncle, gives her away.
• March 20 –Grover Shoe Factory disaster: A boiler explosion, building collapse and fire inBrockton, Massachusetts kills 58.
• March 24 –Toastmasters International is founded byRalph C. Smedley inBloomington, Illinois.^[3]
• March 27 –Plumas National Forest is established.
• April 6 –Lochner v. New York: TheSupreme Court of the United States invalidates New York's 8-hour-day law.
• April 6–July 19 – The1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike; 21 people die and 416 are injured in the violence.^[4]
• May–June –John C. Merriam leads theSaurian Expedition, apaleontological research mission in northernNevada.
• May 6 –Klamath National Forest is established.
• May 10 – The1905 Snyder, Oklahoma tornado destroys much ofSnyder, Oklahoma, killing at least 97.
• May 12 –Gunnison National Forest is established.
• May 15 –Las Vegas, Nevada is founded when 110 acres (45 ha), in what later becomes downtown, are auctioned off.
• May 15 –Saint Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery is founded in South Canaan Township in western Wayne County, in the northeastern corner of Pennsylvania.
• May 29 –Sawtooth National Forest is established.
• June 1–October 14 – TheLewis and Clark Centennial Exposition is held inPortland, Oregon, celebrating the 100th anniversary of theLewis and Clark Expedition.
• June 2 –Lassen National Forest is established.
• June 3 –San Juan andPayette National Forest is established.
• June 14 –Uncompahgre National Forest is established.
• June 24 – Thefounding convention of theIndustrial Workers of the World, A radical workers union, which had great impact during the first two decades of the 20th century.

• July 11 –W. E. B. Du Bois andWilliam Monroe Trotter establish theNiagara Movement, a precursor to theNAACP.
• July 22 – Florence Kelly delivers her landmark speech aboutchild labor before the convention of theNational American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia.
• July 29 – U.S. Secretary of WarWilliam Howard Taft has talks withPrime Minister of JapanKatsura Taro. Notes from these conversations (known as theTaft–Katsura Agreement) are later found in 1924 and cause a controversy as it appears to contain U.S. recognition of Japan's claims inKorea.
• August 15 – Mexican-American prospectorPablo Valencia gets lost in theSonoran Desert ofArizona with no water. Enduring almost eight days of dehydration, Valencia wanders until he is discovered on August 23 by anthropologist William J. McGee and McGee's Papago Indian assistant, Jose.^[5]
• August 21 – The Sequoyah Constitutional Convention takes place inMuskogee in the U.S.Indian Territory and approves a constitution for the proposedState of Sequoyah, seeking admission as the only Native American majority state in the U.S.^[6] President Roosevelt will reject the idea in favor of joining the Indian Territory with the white-ruled Oklahoma Territory to create the 46th U.S. state.
• August 23 –A. Roy Knabenshue introduces the dirigible to the skies of New York City, piloting the lighter-than-air vehicle within view of hundreds of thousands of spectators.^[7]
• September 5 –Russo-Japanese War –Treaty of Portsmouth: InNew Hampshire, atreaty mediated by U.S. PresidentTheodore Roosevelt is signed by victorJapan andRussia. Russia cedes the island ofSakhalin and port and rail rights inManchuria to Japan.
• September 11 – 19 die and 48 are seriously injured when theNinth Avenue Elevated train derails inManhattan.
• October –John W. Taylor andMatthias F. Cowley resign from theQuorum of Twelve in protest, disputingthe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' stance againstpolygamy that was reaffirmed in theSecond Manifesto (following theReed Smoot hearings).
• October 3 –Tonto National Forest is established.
• October 5 – TheWright Brothers' third aeroplane (Wright Flyer III) stays in the air for 39 minutes with Wilbur piloting. This is the first aeroplane flight lasting over half an hour.
• October 11 – The Institute of Musical Art, predecessor of theJuilliard School, opens inNew York City.^[8]
• October 14 – The National League'sNew York Giants win baseball'sWorld Series, beating theAmerican League'sPhiladelphia Athletics, 2-0, in Game 5.
• November 28–29 – The massiveMataafa Storm on theGreat Lakes damages or destroys 29 vessels.^[9]
• December 24 – The operaThe Sho-Gun, authored byGeorge Ade andGustav Luders, is performed at theGrand Opera House inSeattle, Washington.^[10]
• December 30 – A bomb killsFrank Steunenberg, ex-governor ofIdaho; the case leads to a trial against leaders of theWestern Federation of Miners.

• Refilling ofSalton Sea begins.
• Huckleberry Finn andTom Sawyer are banned from theBrooklyn Public Library for setting a "bad example."

• Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
• Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
• Black Patch Tobacco Wars (1904–1909)^[11]

• May 29 - Brooklyn Superbas pitcherElmer Stricklett introduces the "spitball" to major league baseball.^[12]
• October 14 - TheNational League'sNew York Giants won their 1stWorld Series by defeating theAmerican League'sPhiladelphia Athletics 4 games to 1New York City'sPolo Grounds

• January 3 –Anna May Wong, film actress (died1961)
• January 7
  • Sterling Holloway, actor (died1992)
  • James Simpson Jr., race car driver and politician (died1960)
• January 11 –Dorothy Hale, socialite (suicide1938)
• January 19 –Oveta Culp Hobby, government official and businesswoman (died1995)
• January 24 –J. Howard Marshall, billionaire businessman (died1995)^[13]
• January 27 –Howard McNear, actor (died1969)^[14]
• February 6 –Merze Tate, African American academic (died1996)
• February 10
  • Walter A. Brown, basketball and ice hockey pioneer (died1964)
  • Chick Webb, drummer and bandleader (died1939)^[15]
• March 15 –Nat Perrin, comedy screenwriter (died1998)
• March 17 –Lillian Yarbo, actress (died1996)^[16]
• March 18 –Thomas Townsend Brown, inventor (died1985)
• April 9 –J. William Fulbright, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1945 to 1974 (died1995)
• May 11 –Catherine Bauer Wurster, architect and public housing advocate (died1964)
• May 15 –Joseph Cotten, actor (died1994)
• May 16 –Henry Fonda, actor (died1982)^[17]
• May 17 –Roy Nelson, cartoonist (died1956)
• May 18
  • Ruth Alexander, pilot (died1930)
  • Cecilia H. Hauge, nurse (died1990)
• June 10 –Sally Childs, language training specialist (died1988)^[18]
• June 14 –Arthur Davis, American animator (died2000)
• June 20 –Lillian Hellman, playwright (died1984)^[19]
• June 24 –Fred Alderman, Olympic sprinter (died1998)
• June 25 –Leon deValinger Jr., archivist and historian (died2000)
• June 29 –Tarzan Woltzen, basketball player (died1995)
• June 30
  • John Harmon, actor (died1985)
  • John Van Ryn, tennis player (died1999)
• July 4 –Irving Johnson, sailor and author (died1991)
• July 10 –Thomas Gomez, actor (died1971)
• July 11 –David Louis Lidman, writer (died1982)
• July 12 –Edward Bernds, screenwriter and film director (died2000)
• July 13 –Magda Foy, child actress (died2000)
• July 15
  • Dorothy Fields, lyricist (died1974)
  • Addie McPhail, actress (died2003)
  • Shirley Povich, sports columnist (died1998)
• July 16 –Lou Garland, baseball player (died1990)
• July 18 –Robert Elton Brooker, business executive (died2000)
• July 20 –Joseph Levis, Olympic fencer (died2005)
• July 21
  • David M. Kennedy, U.S. 60th Secretary of Treasury, 8th U.S. Representative to N.A.T.O., Special Representative of The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-day Saints (died1996)
  • Diana Trilling, literary critic and author (died1996)
• July 22 –Doc Cramer, baseball player (died1990)
• July 26 –Alex Radcliffe, baseball player (d.1983)
• July 31 –Robert A. Grant, judge (died1998)
• August 2 –Ruth Nelson, actress (died1992)^[20]
• August 21 –Friz Freleng, animator, cartoonist, director, producer, and composer (died1995)
• August 23 –Abbie Rowe, White House photographer (died1967)
• August 26 –Helen Sharsmith, biologist and educator (died1982)^[21]
• August 29 –Al Taliaferro, Disney comics artist (died1969)
• September 1 –Elvera Sanchez, dancer (died2000)
• September 20 –Reinhold O. Carlson, politician (died2006)
• October 5 –John Hoyt, actor, editorial board member ofThe Yale Record (died1991)
• October 6 –Helen Wills, tennis player (died1998)
• October 7 –Andy Devine, character actor (died1977)
• October 11 –Fred Trump, real estate developer, father ofDonald Trump (died1999)
• October 23 –Gertrude Ederle, swimmer (died2003)^[22]
• November 1 –Eric Siday, bandleader, electronic composer (died1976)
• November 3 –Joseph H. Ball, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1940 to 1942 and 1943 to 1949 (died1993)
• November 4 –Nannie Doss, serial killer who murdered eleven people (died 1965)
• November 13 –Frank Levingston, supercentenarian (died2016)
• November 19
  • Eleanor Audley, actress (died1991)
  • Tommy Dorsey, bandleader (died1956)
• November 26 –Bob Johnson, baseball player (died1982)
• November 27 –Astrid Allwyn, actress (died1978)
• December 7 –Leonard Goldenson, television executive (died1999)
• December 19 –Irving Kahn, financial analyst and investor (died2015)
• December 22 –Kenneth Rexroth, poet (died1982)
• December 23 –Paul Caraway, general, High Commissioner,United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands (died1985)
• December 24 –Howard Hughes, business magnate, investor, director, pilot, and philanthropist (died1976)

• January 2 –Clara Augusta Jones Trask, dime novelist (born1839)
• January 6
  • Ann Eliza Smith, patriot (born1819)
  • George Van Cleaf, swimmer and water polo player (born1880)
• January 19 –Benjamin F. Rice,U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1868 to 1873 (born1828)
• January 22 –Clara Harrison Stranahan, college co-founder and trustee (born1831)
• January 27 –Watson Heston, cartoonist (born1846)
• January 28 –Cordelia A. Greene, physician, reformer, benefactor (born1831)
• February 8 –John Leary, politician, 37thMayor of Seattle (born1837)
• February 15 –Lew Wallace,Union general in theAmerican Civil War and politician (born1827)
• February 20 –Jeremiah W. Farnham, merchant captain (born c. 1828)
• February 27 –George S. Boutwell, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1851 to 1853 (born1818)
• March 1 –Edward O. Wolcott, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1889 to 1901 (born1848)
• March 6 –John Henninger Reagan, U.S. Senator fromTexas, ActingConfederate States Secretary of the Treasury,Confederate States Postmaster General (born1818)
• March 9 –William B. Bate, 23rd Governor of Tennessee from 1883 to 1887 and U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1887 to 1905 (born1826)
• March 18 –Joseph Roswell Hawley, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1881 to 1905 (born 1826)
• April 21 –Orville H. Platt, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1879 to 1905 (born1827)
• April 28 –Fitzhugh Lee, 40th Governor of Virginia, U.S. Army general, Confederate cavalry general (born1835)
• May 5 –William M. Robbins, U.S. Representative from North Carolina (born1828)
• May 12 –Sam S. Shubert, theater owner (born1878)
• May 23 –Mary Livermore, journalist, abolitionist and women's rights advocate (born1820)
• July 1 –John Hay, author, biographer and 37thUnited States Secretary of State (born1838)
• July 24 –Adolf Cluss, engineer architect (born1825 in Germany)
• August 1 –Andrew Wylie, judge (born1814)
• August 21 –Mary Mapes Dodge, children's author (b.1831)
• September 5 –Touch the Clouds,Minneconjou chief (b. c.1838)
• September 12 –John Rogan, second tallest person in recorded history (b.1868)
• October 6 –Hibbard H. Shedd, politician and novelist (born1847)
• December 3 –John Bartlett, lexicographer and publisher (born1820)

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