* Robert Nisbet Bain, The First Romanovs 1613 – 1725 ( London, 1905 ; reprint, New York, 1967 ).

* 1905 – The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which holds that the " right to free contract " is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

* 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

* 1905 – George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player ( d. 1986 )

View from the Stamford Bridge ( stadium )# West_Stand | West Stand of Stamford Bridge ( stadium ) | Stamford Bridge during a UEFA Champions League | Champions League game, 2008 In October 1905 it hosted a rugby union match between the All Blacks and Middlesex, and in 1914 hosted a baseball match between the touring New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox.

In 1905, he was appointed as counsel to the New York state legislative " Stevens Gas Commission ", a committee investigating utility rates.

" Citing Lochner v. New York, the controversial decision of 1905 upholding freedom of contract, Pound assailed the Supreme Court for giving " us rules which, when applied to the existing commercial and industrial situation, are wholly inadequate.

At first the movement grew most in the Russian empire and eastern Europe, but soon spread to western Europe and beyond: to Argentina in 1889 ; to Canada in 1901 ; to Algeria, Chile, Japan, Mexico, and Peru in 1903 ; to Tunisia in 1904 ; and to Australia, the United States, Guinea, Indochina, New Zealand, Tonkin, and Uruguay in 1905.

* On-Line Medieval and Classical History: The Danish History books I-IX, translated by Oliver Elton ( Norroena Society, New York, 1905 ).

In August – September 1905, he founded the Zinc Corporation ( later, following various mergers, to become part of the Rio Tinto Group ) with William Baillieu and others, with the intention to purchase and treat the zinc rich-tailings in Broken Hill, New South Wales.

The passenger manifest of the S. S. Rotterdam, which arrived in New York on 26 January 1905, lists Peter Weissmüller, a 29-year-old laborer, his 24-year-old wife Elisabeth, and seven-month-old Johann.

They left Rotterdam on January 14, 1905, and arrived at Ellis Island in New York harbor twelve days later as Peter, Elisabeth and Johann Weissmüller.

The majority of New York City's District Assembly 49 joined the Industrial Workers of the World at its 1905 foundation.

* H. W. Thayer, Laurence Sterne in Germany ( New York, 1905 )

* P. E. More, Shelburne Essays ( third series, New York, 1905 )

Little Nemo is the main fictional character in a series of weekly comic strips by Winsor McCay that appeared in the New York Herald and William Randolph Hearst's New York American newspapers from October 15, 1905 – July 23, 1911 and September 3, 1911 – July 26, 1914 ; respectively.

* Lochner v. New York, 198 U. S. 45 ( 1905 ), a notorious, and now defunct case by the US Supreme Court that regulation of working time ( for bakeries ) to limit workers to a 10-hour day.

Baby New Year 1905 chases old 1904 into the history books in this cartoon by John T. McCutcheon.

After New York Giants ' manager John McGraw told reporters that Philadelphia manufacturer Benjamin Shibe, who owned the controlling interest in the new team, had a " white elephant on his hands ," Mack defiantly adopted the white elephant as the team mascot, and presented McGraw with a stuffed toy elephant at the start of the 1905 World Series.

Hundreds of open clusters were listed in the New General Catalogue, first published in 1888 by the Danish-Irish astronomer J. L. E. Dreyer, and the two supplemental Index Catalogues, published in 1896 and 1905.

The southern half was colonised in the same year by the United Kingdom as British New Guinea, but in 1904 with the passage of the Papua Act, 1905 was transferred to the newly formed Commonwealth of Australia who took on its administration.

Additionally from 1905, British New Guinea was renamed the Territory of Papua.

Following the passage of the Papua Act, 1905, British New Guinea became the Territory of Papua, and formal Australian administration began in 1906, although Papua remained de jure a British possession until the independence of Papua New Guinea in 1975.

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.

*“ A Source Book for Medieval History ,” New York, 1905.

The federal status for the 1905 trademark is registered and renewed and is owned by Pepsico, Inc. of Purchase, New York.

On August 30, 1905, in his first major league at-bat, Cobb doubled off the New York Highlanders's Jack Chesbro who had won a record 41 games the previous season.

Thus, the Court struck down a law decreeing maximum hours for workers in a bakery in Lochner v. New York ( 1905 ) and struck down a minimum wage law in Adkins v. Children's Hospital ( 1923 ).

* 1905: Lochner v. New York

New York and Pennsylvania theaters of the war, image from 1905

He died in New York aged 68 in 1905, a victim of kidney disease, before any of his works on the London railways were completed but with the construction well underway.

* 90 West Street, New York City, Manhattan, 1905 – 1907.

* Ed Don George, ( 1905 – 1985 ), born in North Java, New York, professional wrestler, naval commander.

* Zanzibar in Contemporary Times, R. N. Lyne, ( London, 1905 )

The New York Times published two positive reviews of the book: Basil Davenport ( 1905 – 1966 ) compared Clarke to Olaf Stapledon, C. S. Lewis, and H. G. Wells — a " very small group of writers who have used science fiction as the vehicle of philosophic ideas.

The Times newspaper in Britain was still using tire as late as 1905.

A letter in The Times ( London ), January 16, 1905, signed by Oswald Crawford, describes auction bridge as first played in 1904, while a book by " John Doe " ( F. Roe ), published in Alláhábád, India, in 1889, puts forward auction bridge as an invention of three members of the Indian Civil Service stationed at an isolated community, designed a three-handed form of bridge to compensate the lack of a fourth player.

According to the February 24, 1905 edition of the Wilkes-Barre Times:

On March 23, 1905, the Wilkes-Barre Times reported:

" The New York Times, February 2, 1905, p. 6.

September 3, 1905 ; " Text of Treaty ; Signed by the Emperor of Japan and Czar of Russia <" New York Times.

According to the New York Times, her book Lady Rose's Daughter was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1903, as was The Marriage of William Ashe in 1905.

The translation, described by The Times as of " remarkable quality " was taken up by the Oxford University Press and published in four volumes in 1905.

Led by Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler, the company controlled 800, 000 hectares of land in northern Baja California by 1905 and began to construct the irrigation system for this valley.

The Minneapolis Times was a morning paper starting in 1889 ; it was purchased by the Tribune in 1905 and its name was used in various forms until 1948.

A dispatch in The New York Times of March 11, 1905, stated that the verdict was " written out with the knowledge and assistance of Deputy High Sheriff Rawlins ", implying that the jurors may have been coached on what conclusion to reach.

In 1905, The Times tried but failed to challenge the agreement by setting up a low-cost book borrowing club.

To paraphrase Tamagno's New York Times obituary of 1 September 1905, such was the extraordinary facility of the tenor's upper register, he made the hurling forth of his high A, B and C sound as easy as everyday speech.

Eliakum Zunser ( Eliakim Badchen, Elikum Tsunzer ) ( October 28, 1836 – September 22, 1913 ), was a Lithuanian Jewish Yiddish-language poet, songwriter, and badchen who lived out the last part of his life in U. S .. A 1905 article in the New York Times lauded him as " the father of Yiddish poetry ".

* —, " East Side Honors Poet of its Masses ", New York Times, March 31, 1905, 7.

He began to publish numerous articles and monographs, as well as his History of Egypt from the Earliest Times Down to the Persian Conquest in 1905.

In the March 26, 1911 New York Times, Mark Twain was quoted posthumously from a 1905 letter to L. M. Powers in which he wrote,

In an article in The Times in 1905, details were given of the Simpson's method of cooking beef.

The idea for a regular section on education in The Times was first proposed in 1905 by J E G de Montmorency, a barrister and writer who later composed leader articles for The TES.

A contemporary account of the 1905 pogrom was reported in the NY Times December 13, 1905

The events precipitated a political crisis ; Wyndham repudiated the scheme in a letter to The Times, but by March 1905, due to repeated Unionist attacks, his position as Chief Secretary had become untenable and he was forced to resign from Cabinet.