In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to ban the sport following a series of player deaths from injuries suffered during games. The deaths and injuries were a result of the mass formations and gang tackling that characterized the sport in its early years.

President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Landis a federal judge in 1905.

* 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.

From left, clockwise: The Wright brothers achieve the first manned flight by airplane, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina | Kitty Hawk in 1903 ; U. S. President William McKinley is William McKinley assassination | assassinated in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition ; An 1906 San Francisco earthquake | earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, killing at least 3, 000 in 1906 ; United States | America gains control over the Philippines in 1902, after the Philippine – American War ; Rock being moved to construct the Panama Canal ; Admiral Heihachiro Togo | Togo before the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, part of the Russo-Japanese War, leading to Japanese victory and their establishment as a great power.

* November 17 – Erskine Hamilton Childers, 4th President of Ireland ( b. 1905 )

** Abeid Karume, President of Zanzibar ( b. 1905 )

* June 28 – Clifford Dupont, 1st President of Rhodesia ( b. 1905 )

Research conducted for the 100th anniversary of the Treaty in 1905 explored participants ' diaries, local newspapers and government documents to explain the causes of the war, the military conflict on land and sea, President Theodore Roosevelt's back channel diplomacy, and the peace negotiations hosted by the United States Navy and the State of New Hampshire, as the nearby city of Portsmouth acted as host to the diplomats.

The reactions to this incident included a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia on behalf of the American people by the US President Theodore Roosevelt in July 1905.

In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Bonaparte Secretary of the Navy.

Charles Warren Fairbanks ( May 11, 1852 – June 4, 1918 ) was an American politician who served as a Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 and the 26th Vice President of the United States from 1905 to 1909.

President Theodore Roosevelt arranged for the base to host negotiations leading to the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese War.

When President Theodore Roosevelt mediated the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth to end the Russo-Japanese War, envoys from both countries stayed at the Wentworth by the Sea, ferried by launch to negotiations held at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

After returning from French Indochina, Doumer served as President of the Chamber of Deputies ( a post equivalent to the speaker of parliament ) from 1902 to 1905.

Erskine Hamilton Childers ( 11 December 1905 – 17 November 1974 ) served as the fourth President of Ireland from 1973 until his death in 1974.

He was President of the Privy Council from 1893 – 94 and 1905 – 22.

In April 1905 a monument by Dalou to his memory at Bordeaux was unveiled by President Loubet.

Horace Porter, ( April 15, 1837 – May 29, 1921 ) was an American soldier and diplomat who served as a lieutenant colonel, ordnance officer and staff officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, personal secretary to General and President Ulysses S. Grant and to General William T. Sherman, vice president of the Pullman Palace Car Company and U. S. Ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905.

He was President of the Confederation twice, in 1905 and 1911.

Yen Chia-kan (; Suzhou dialect: nyie cia / ka koe ), or Yen Chia-jin ( October 23, 1905 – December 24, 1993 ), better known as C. K. Yen, succeeded Chiang Kai-shek as President of the Republic of China upon Chiang's death on April 5, 1975.

The members were initially very similar to the old Committee and the President of the Board was the Lord President of the Council ; however, from 1902 this ceased to be the case and the President of the Board was appointed separately ( although the Marquess of Londonderry happened to hold both jobs from 1903 to 1905 ).

Hay continued serving as Secretary of State after Theodore Roosevelt succeeded McKinley, serving until his own death in 1905.

In 1905, Roosevelt, an admirer of various western figures, named Captain Bill McDonald of the Texas Rangers, as his bodyguard and entertained the legendary Texan in the White House.

Booker Washington and Theodore Roosevelt at Tuskegee Institute, 1905

The strip contained a number of references to contemporary events, such as the 1904 election of Theodore Roosevelt ; the recently built Flatiron Building ( 1902 ) and St. Regis Hotel ( 1904 ) in New York City ; and the 1904 – 1905 Russo-Japanese War.

* SS Roosevelt, the ship used on Robert Peary's 1905 arctic expeditions

He blamed these interventions on the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine of 1905 which had turned the United States into an arrogant " policeman of the western continent.

A recently published book, The Imperial Cruise: The Secret History of Empire and War, documents that in 1905 Roosevelt imagined that his " international police powers " extended to North Asia.

In July 1905 Roosevelt secretly agreed a " Japanese Monroe Doctrine for Asia.

Roosevelt had " the first Camp David ", called Pine Knot, here from 1905.

# Theodore Roosevelt Meighen ( 1905 – 1979 ), whose son Michael Meighen is a Canadian senator, lawyer and cultural patron.

In 1905, while on a business trip to the United States with board members of the Dresdner Bank, Schacht met the famous American banker J. P. Morgan, as well as U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt.

He was supported by Roosevelt and presented in 1905 a report to the Congress.

* 1905 – Theodore Roosevelt in the address at the Harvard commencement recounts how lawyers can help the rich evade the law

Then, in 1905, at Hill's recommendation, he was hired by Theodore Roosevelt as chief engineer on the Panama Canal.

" In 1905 Roosevelt decided to expand the house adding the largest room, entitled the " North Room " ( 40x30 ) for $ 19, 000 ( equal to $ today ).

As early as 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt asserted the need for campaign finance reform and called for legislation to ban corporate contributions for political purposes.

Sterling Morton was a " Bourbon " ( i. e. conservative ) Democrat, his son Paul Morton served as Secretary of the Navy under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1904 to 1905 as a Progressive Republican.

It is named after Ernst Abbe ( 1840 – 1905 ), the German physicist who defined it.

Albert Pike has often been named as influential in the early Ku Klux Klan, being named in 1905 as " the chief judicial officer " of the Klan by a sympathetic historian of the early Klan, Walter Fleming.

* In 1905, the National Audubon Society was incorporated and named in his honor.

Albert Einstein's mathematical description of how the photoelectric effect was caused by absorption of quanta of light ( now called photons ), was in one of his 1905 papers, named " On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light ".

In 1905 the position was given some official recognition when the " Prime Minister " was named in the order of precedence, outranked, among non-royals, only by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and the Lord Chancellor.

These include Ulster Qualifying League Two side Letterkenny RFC, whose ground is named after Dave Gallaher, the captain of the 1905 New Zealand All Blacks touring team, who have since become known as The Originals.

Gerard Peter Kuiper (; ; born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper on December 7, 1905 in Tuitjenhorn ( Harenkarspel ), Netherlands ; died December 24, 1973 in Mexico City ) was a Dutch-American astronomer after whom the Kuiper belt was named.

Adams County is named for Alva Adams, Governor of the State of Colorado 1887 – 1889, 1897 – 1899, and 1905.

* Temple Lea Houston, 1860 – 1905 ( named after Margaret's father ) ( state senator of Texas legislature, 1885 – 1888 )

She was named danseuse in 1902, première danseuse in 1905, and finally prima ballerina in 1906 after a resounding performance in Giselle.

In 1905, American mycologist William Murrill isolated and described the fungus responsible ( which he named Diaporthe parasitica ), and demonstrated by inoculation into healthy plants that the fungus caused the disease.

It was named for Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, Governor of Florida from 1905 to 1909.

Up until 1905 the area had been under Brevard County ( although Brevard County had been named St. Lucie County from 1844 until 1855 when it was renamed Brevard County ).

Most roof prism binoculars use either the Abbe-Koenig prism ( named after Ernst Karl Abbe and Albert Koenig and patented by Carl Zeiss in 1905 ) or Schmidt-Pechan prism ( invented in 1899 ) designs to erect the image and fold the optical path.

The county was created in 1914 and organized in 1915, and is named for Haakon VII, who became king of Norway in 1905.

* Glennon-Located at the intersection of Route T and Route AB, it is named after Archbishop John Glennon, who gave permission to establish a parish here on November 29, 1905.

The County was created on August 17, 1905, and is named for Nelson Tift, founder of the Georgia city of Albany and a United States Representative.

It was created on August 17, 1905 and named for Charles Frederick Crisp.

Some weeks later he named the peak after his brother, Sir Augustus Charles Gregory ( 1819 – 1905 ).

The town is named after mining pioneer Dr. James Douglas, and was incorporated in 1905.

The ore for which the town is named was discovered in the area in the early 1890s and mined by the General Bauxite Company until 1905, when the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, a northeastern aluminum refining company, purchased vast tracts of land in Saline County after learning of the high-quality ore that was being shipped from the area.

The named was changed to Kent in the 1890s, and finally to Kentfield with the opening of the first post office in 1905.

Founded in 1902, incorporated in 1905, and named for C. L. Wellington ( an employee of the Colorado and Southern Railroad ).