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February 17, 1905: Grand Duke Sergius, Moscow's Governor-General, assassinated when a bomb is thrown into his horse-drawn carriage
February 23, 1905: Rotary Club, now Rotary International, founded
The remains of the Grand Duke's carriage

The following events occurred in February 1905:

February 1, 1905 (Wednesday)

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  • U.S. Senator John H. Mitchell of Oregon was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges arising from a scandal involving land grants in the state and illegally using his influence for private clients.[1] On July 3, he would be found guilty of receiving compensation illegally for representation against the federal government but would die before an appeal of his conviction could be decided.
  • Pyotr Sviatopolk-Mirsky, referred to in the press as "Prince Mirsky", resigned as the Russian Interior Minister.[1]
  • Russia and Germany signed a treaty, with the Russians accepting the 1902 Brussels Sugar Convention and promising that no restrictions would be place on Jewish salesmen.[1]
  • Born: Emilio Segrè, Italian physicist, 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (with Owen Chamberlain) for his discovery of the subatomic antiproton, as well as the elements technetium and astatine; in Tivoli (d. 1989)

February 2, 1905 (Thursday)

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  • Russia's cabinet of ministers recommended to Tsar Nicholas II that an elected legislature should be created to allow a public voice in the nation's government.[1]
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February 3, 1905 (Friday)

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February 4, 1905 (Saturday)

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February 5, 1905 (Sunday)

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A hut built by one of the castaways from the Anjou
  • The French ship Anjou was wrecked off of the coast of the uninhabited Auckland Island, located 290 miles (470 km) from the nearest inhabited land in New Zealand, the South Island. While Captain Raphaël Le Tallec and the crew of 22 men was able to reach shore, the castaways lived on the isle for more than three months until being rescued on May 7 by the government steamer NZGSS Hinemoa.[6][7]

February 6, 1905 (Monday)

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Chancellor Soisalon

February 7, 1905 (Tuesday)

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  • The U.S. Senate passed a bill providing for the admission for statehood of the Indian Territory (as Oklahoma) and for what are now New Mexico and Arizona as a single "State of New Mexico".[1]
  • Born:

February 8, 1905 (Wednesday)

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Roosevelt and Fairbanks

February 9, 1905 (Thursday)

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February 10, 1905 (Friday)

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February 11, 1905 (Saturday)

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  • J. N. Williamson, one of the two U.S. representatives for Oregon, was indicted on charges arising from the Oregon land fraud scandal.[1] He would be convicted of political corruption and the illegal acquisition of public lands, but the conviction would be overturned in 1908 by the United States Supreme Court in Williamson v. United States.

February 12, 1905 (Sunday)

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February 13, 1905 (Monday)

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February 14, 1905 (Tuesday)

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  • King Edward VII opened Parliament in the United Kingdom.[1]

February 15, 1905 (Wednesday)

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General Wallace
  • Died: U.S. Army General Lew Wallace, 77, American officer, civil servant, diplomat and writer known for the bestselling novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (b. 1827).[15] He also served as Governor of the New Mexico Territory (1878-1881) and the U.S. Minister to the Ottoman Empire (1881-1885), and is the only novelist whose statue is displayed in the U.S. Capitol.

February 16, 1905 (Thursday)

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February 17, 1905 (Friday)

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  • Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, the Governor-General of Moscow and uncle of Tsar Nicholas II, was assassinated when a nitroglycerin bomb was thrown into the carriage in which he was riding.[16] As the carriage was being driven by Andrei Rudinkin through the gate of Nikolskaya Tower of the Kremlin, anarchist Ivan Kalyayev stepped forward and threw the bomb directly into Sergei's lap. The explosion blast disintegrated the carriage and the Grand Duke. Driver Rudinkin and assassin Kalyayev were both injured, with Rudinkin dying three days later.[17]
  • The first public demonstration of judo in the United States was given at Princeton University as Japanese judokas Tsunejiro Tomita and Mitsuyo Maeda threw two challengers, Princeton Tigers football player N. B. Tooker, and Princeton instructor Samuel Feagles. Baltimore Sun, February 18, 1905. A second demonstration took place four days later at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. [18]
  • At Fremantle, Australia, the RMS Orizaba was wrecked, but all 160 passengers and the mail were saved.
  • Born: Frans Piët, Dutch comic strip artist known for Sjors en Sjimmie; in Haarlem (d. 1997)[19]

February 18, 1905 (Saturday)

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  • The UK, France, Italy and Russia all declined to support a proposal by Prince George of Greece to allow for the annexation of Crete.[16]

February 19, 1905 (Sunday)

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February 20, 1905 (Monday)

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February 21, 1905 (Tuesday)

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  • Sir Wilfrid Laurier introduced a resolution in the Canadian parliament proposing that two new provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, be created out of the Northwest Territories.[16]
  • The United Kingdom House of Commons voted against passing the proposed resolution by MP John Redmond of Ireland to declare that he British government was opposed to the will of the Irish people. The with the amendment failing, 236 to 286.[16]

February 22, 1905 (Wednesday)

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February 23, 1905 (Thursday)

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February 24, 1905 (Friday)

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Mrs. Smith of the Palawas

February 25, 1905 (Saturday)

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  • Alcide Laurin became the first known ice hockey player to be killed during a game. Laurine, a 24-year-old player for the playing for the Alexandria Crescents was beaten to death with a hockey stick by during a game at Maxville, Ontario by Maxville's Allan Loney.[21] Loney became the first ice hockey player to be charged with murdering another player during a game, but was tried for manslaughter and was acquitted.

February 26, 1905 (Sunday)

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  • The Panama Canal Commission of the U.S. unanimously recommended construction of a sea-level canal across the Isthmus of Panama, and estimated that it could be completed within 12 years at a cost of $230,500,000.[16]
  • In the Russo-Japanese War, the Russians sustained a severe defeat in Manchuria at Tsen-ho-Cheng.[16]
  • More than 20 miners were killed in a coal mine explosion at Wilcoe, West Virginia.[16]

February 27, 1905 (Monday)

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February 28, 1905 (Tuesday)

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  • Jane Stanford, the co-founder with her husband Leland of Stanford University, was fatally poisoned while visiting the Moana Hotel in Hawaii. Although a coroner's jury determined that she had been murdered after having strychnine introduced to her in a bicarbonate of soda, but no charges were brought. A historian would conclude later that Mrs. Stanford had been poisoned by her personal secretary, Bertha Berner, who had been present at an earlier incident of poisoning on January 14.[22]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m The American Monthly Review of Reviews (March 1905) pp. 283-286
  2. ^ John K. Roth; Christina J. Moose; Rowena Wildin (2000). World Philosophers and Their Works: Ockham, William of - Zhuangzi. Salem Press. p. 1604. ISBN 978-0-89356-881-8.
  3. ^ "The woman in the photograph: the mystery and tragedy of Mabel Cahill, a forgotten Irish star", The 42, in TheJournal.ie, September 1, 2019
  4. ^ Stephen Banfield, Sensibility and English Song (Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 233-234
  5. ^ Adolf Bastian and the Psychic Unity of Mankind: The Foundations of Anthropology in Nineteenth Century Germany. University of Queensland Press. 1983. p. 27.
  6. ^ "Islands of Despair: The Wreck of the Anjou"
  7. ^ "Chronique", Revue de l'Anjou (1905) p. 541
  8. ^ Terrie M. Rooney (1998). Contemporary Authors. Gale Research International, Limited. p. 293. ISBN 978-0-7876-1994-7.
  9. ^ Maurice A. Bigelow, Sex-Education: A Series of Lectures Concerning Knowledge of Sex and Its Relation to Human Life (The Macmillan Company, 1916) p. 227
  10. ^ History of Social Hygiene 1850-1930 (American Social Hygiene Association, 1930) pp. 1–6
  11. ^ James M. Gustafson, Kirman and the Qajar Empire: Local Dimensions of Modernity in Iran, 1794-1914 (Taylor & Francis, 2015) p. 148
  12. ^ "Adolf von Menzel | German painter". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  13. ^ ""Legend: Ra'ana Liaqat Ali Khan", in The Directorate for Electronic Government (Women Parliament Caucuses of Pakistan Parliament, 2010)
  14. ^ Gerald Bordman (March 2001). American Musical Theater: A Chronicle. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 517. ISBN 978-0-19-513074-4.
  15. ^ Frank Northen Magill (1958). Masterplots: Cyclopedia of world authors; seven hundred fifty three novelists, poets, playwrights from the world's fine literature. Salem Press. p. 1122.
  16. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m The American Monthly Review of Reviews (April 1905) pp. 413-416
  17. ^ W. Bruce Lincoln, The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias (Anchor Books, 1981) p. 651
  18. ^ "Cadets Down the 'Jap'; Exponent of Jiu-Jitsu Thrown by West Point Athletes", The New York Times, February 21, 1905, p. 5
  19. ^ "Frans Piët | Lambiek Comiclopedia". Archived from the original on June 27, 2018. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  20. ^ "Our History", Rotary International
  21. ^ "The Killing of Alcide Laurin in a Hockey Match at Maxville", Ottawa Journal, February 27, 1905, p. 1
  22. ^ Richard White, Who Killed Jane Stanford? A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits, and the Birth of a University (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022)