Timeline June 1905

Events in June 1905 8

• 1905 Birth in Paris A philosopher is born Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was born on 21 June 1905 in Paris to Jean-Baptiste Sartre, a naval officer, and Anne-Marie Schweitzer. His father's family had modest means, while his mother was a cousin of the theologian and physician Albert Schweitzer. He would grow up as an only child in a household increasingly shaped by loss.
• 1905 – 1980 Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Playwright, and Voice of Existentialism Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, and political activist who became the foremost public exponent of existentialism in the twentieth century. Through works such as Being and Nothingness, Nausea, and No Exit, he explored themes of freedom, bad faith, and radical responsibility for one's own existence. A lifelong partner of Simone de Beauvoir and a prominent left-wing intellectual, he shaped postwar European thought, engaged directly in the political struggles of his era, and in 1964 became the only person ever to decline the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1905 – 1980 Jean-Paul Sartre French philosopher and writer Sartre was a leading existentialist thinker who explored freedom, responsibility, and human existence.
• 1905 The Lodz insurrection Barricades in Russian Poland Three days of street fighting in Lodz, in Russian-controlled Congress Poland, leave several hundred dead. It is the bloodiest single episode of the revolution outside Russia proper, and a reminder that the empire's national minorities have their own reasons for rising. Special punitive expeditions are later sent to Poland, the Baltic provinces and Georgia.
• 1905 Industrial Workers of the World founded Radical labor union formed in Chicago Delegates from dozens of labor organizations met in Chicago to found the Industrial Workers of the World, a union aiming to organize all workers into one union regardless of trade or skill. Known as the Wobblies, the union promoted industrial unionism and radical labor tactics. It became a significant force in American labor conflicts over the following decades.
• 1905 Mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin Crew revolt over rotten meat spreads to Odessa Sailors on the Russian battleship Potemkin mutinied after being served maggot-infested meat, killing several officers and taking control of the ship. The mutineers sailed to Odessa, where their arrival coincided with a bloody crackdown on striking workers. The episode became a lasting symbol of revolutionary defiance, later dramatized in Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 film.
• 1905 Mutiny on the Potemkin Over rotten meat The crew of the battleship Potemkin refuse borscht made with maggoty beef, an officer threatens to shoot them, and the ship ends the day under the control of its sailors with seven officers dead. The Potemkin steams to Odessa, where the city is already in revolt, and troops fire on crowds at the harbour steps. The ship eventually surrenders in Romania. Eisenstein films it twenty years later and the sequence on the steps, which he largely invented, becomes better known than the mutiny.
• 1905 Special relativity On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies The June 1905 paper dropped absolute time and kept the speed of light constant for every observer. Moving clocks run slow, moving lengths contract, and simultaneity depends on who is asking. It cited no sources and thanked only his friend Michele Besso.