Timeline January 1905

Events in January 1905 11

• 1830 – 1905 Louise Michel (1830-1905) Died 9 January 1905, aged 74 French anarchist and teacher Louise Michel was a leading figure in the Paris Commune of 1871, for which she was deported to New Caledonia. After returning to France she remained a prominent anarchist agitator and writer for the rest of her life. She is remembered as one of the most significant figures of French anarchism.
• 1840 – 1905 Ernst Abbe (1840-1905) Died 14 January 1905, aged 64 German physicist Ernst Abbe developed the theory of optical resolution that transformed microscope design and co-founded the Carl Zeiss optical company. His formula for the diffraction limit of microscopes remains fundamental to optics. He also pioneered progressive labor policies at Zeiss, including profit-sharing and the eight-hour workday.
• 1905 Australian Open 1905 — first edition Men: Rodney Heath First Australasian Championships held in Melbourne. Rodney Heath won the inaugural men's singles. Women did not compete until 1922. The tournament became a Grand Slam in 1924.
• 1905 – 1961 Anna May Wong (1905-1961) American actress, the first Chinese American film star, who fought against Hollywood's stereotypes of Asians.
• 1905 Anna May Wong born in Los Angeles Anna May Wong is born in Los Angeles.
• 1905 – 1968 Kay Francis (1905-1968) American actress, a glamorous star of pre-Code melodramas and comedies.
• 1905 Kay Francis born in Oklahoma City Kay Francis is born in Oklahoma City.
• 1905 – 1957 Christian Dior The New Look Fashion designer who revolutionized women's post-war fashion.
• 1905 – 1978 Karl Wallenda (1905-1978) Died 22 March 1978, aged 73 Wallenda was the founder of the high-wire circus troupe The Flying Wallendas. He fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• 1905 Bloody Sunday A petition, and a volley Some tens of thousands of workers process to the Winter Palace behind Father Georgy Gapon, carrying icons and portraits of the Tsar, to hand over a petition asking for an eight-hour day, a living wage and an elected assembly. The Guard opens fire. Estimates of the dead run from around a hundred to several times that. Nicholas II is not even in the city. The petitioners had addressed him as their father, and by the evening that relationship is finished. Old Style 9 January.
• 1905 Bloody Sunday massacre in St. Petersburg Troops fire on peaceful petitioners, igniting the 1905 Revolution Imperial Guard troops opened fire on an unarmed crowd marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II at the Winter Palace, killing hundreds. The massacre destroyed remaining faith in the tsar among ordinary Russians and triggered a wave of strikes and uprisings across the empire. It is widely regarded as the spark that ignited the Revolution of 1905.