* 1905 – Pat Brown, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Governor of California ( d. 1996 )

* 1905 – Red Nichols, American cornettist, composer, and bandleader ( The California Ramblers ) ( d. 1965 )

** Pat Brown, Governor of California ( b. 1905 )

David Fairchild of the United States Department of Agriculture introduced hardier cultivars collected in China to California in 1904 and 1905, but it was not promoted as a commercial crop until 1929.

In 1905, George Chaffey, an agricultural developer from Southern California, purchased Shepherd's ranch and subdivided it, along with other adjacent ranches.

The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, named in his honor, was founded when the University of California purchased his book collection in 1905.

Inglewood Park Cemetery was founded in 1905 in Inglewood, California.

This line includes two newly constructed trolleys built to resemble the wood-bodied 500 class cars introduced in 1905 for the Pacific Electric Railway, which once operated more than of track running streetcars and interurbans in Southern California.

* William Moseley Jones ( 1905 – 1988 ), Democratic politician in the California State Assembly

Riverside County, California ( Mendenhall, 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.

In 1905, the Saurian Expedition led by John C. Merriam of the University of California and financed by Annie Alexander, found 25 specimens in central Nevada, which during the Triassic was under a shallow ocean.

** Salton Sea in California, a lake accidentally recreated in 1905 when irrigation canals ruptured, filling a desert endorheic basin and recreating an ancient saline sea.

The first illustrated architectural history course west of the Mississippi was John Galen Howard's Architecture 5A-F at the University of California, Berkeley in 1905.

Edmund Gerald “ Pat ” Brown, Sr. ( April 21, 1905 – February 16, 1996 ) was the 32nd governor of California from 1959 to 1967 and the father of 34th and 39th governor of California, Jerry Brown.

A streetcar of the Pacific Electric Railway makes a stop at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel ( just outside Los Angeles, California | Los Angeles ), c. 1905.

* Edmund G. Brown ( 1905 – 1996 ), Attorney General and Governor of California

* November 18-Robert Bacher ( b. 1905 ), nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project, Professor and Provost of the California Institute of Technology.

* Pat Brown ( 1905 – 1996 ), Edmund G. Brown, Sr., the 32nd Governor of California

Max Otto Lorenz ( September 19, 1876 in Burlington, IowaJuly 1, 1959 in Sunnyvale, California ) was an American economist who developed the Lorenz curve in 1905 to describe income inequalities.

In 1905, Montgomery's pilot Daniel Maloney made several successful flights in the vicinity of Aptos, California and Santa Clara, California using a tandem wing Montgomery glider launched from a hot air balloon, but was killed on July 18, 1905 when the aircraft suffered a structural failure.

The Village office of Western Union with George Towsley as manager and telegrapher continued in Hard's drugstore until 1905.

James Robert Wills ( March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975 ), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader.

* A Trans-Generational Effect of The Aborigines Act 1905 ( WA ): The Making of the Fringedwellers in the South-West of Western Australia

The IWW was founded in Chicago in June 1905 at a convention of two hundred socialists, anarchists, and radical trade unionists from all over the United States ( mainly the Western Federation of Miners ) who were opposed to the policies of the American Federation of Labor ( AFL ).

On June 27, 1905, in Chicago, Illinois, Debs and other influential union leaders including Big Bill Haywood, leader of the Western Federation of Miners, and Daniel De León, leader of the Socialist Labor Party, held what Haywood called the " Continental Congress of the working class ".

Peter Wagner's Neumenkunde ( 1905 ) volume set out the various musical signs of all the most ancient notational styles historically and paleographically, including Jewish and Byzantine neumes, while providing a number of facsimile illustrations, giving rhythmically proportional values for the musical signs along with a few examples of proportional interpretations of certain chants in modern Western European notation.

With east Kimberley cattlemen keen to find a way to get their cattle to market, and the Government of Western Australia keen for competition to bring prices down, a 1905 proposal of a stock route through the desert was taken seriously.

The citizens of Indian Territory tried, in 1905, to gain admission to the union as the State of Sequoyah, but were rebuffed by Congress and an Administration which did not want two new Western states, Sequoyah and Oklahoma.

Gerlach was founded during the construction of the Feather River Route of the Western Pacific Railroad between 1905 and 1909.

Ambridge is a borough in Beaver County in Western Pennsylvania, incorporated in 1905 and named after the American Bridge Company.

The Cairn Valley Light Railway was opened from Dumfries in 1905 as a subsidiary company of the Glasgow and South Western Railway.

Japan's development after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 followed the Western lead in industrialization and militarism, enabling her to gain control of Taiwan in 1895, Korea in 1910 and then a sphere of influence in Manchuria ( 1905 ), following the defeat of Russia in the Russo-Japanese War.

The British Western Pacific Territories were permanently governed as a group of minor insular colonial territories, under one single part-time Western Pacific High Commissioner ( 1905 – 1953 ), an office attached first to the governorship of Fiji, and subsequently to that of the Solomon Islands.

In 1905 Western Electric began construction of the Hawthorne Works on the outskirts of Chicago and which, by 1914 had absorbed all manufacturing work from Clinton Street and Western Electric's other plant in New York.

They, along with the WFM's Bill Haywood and others, were instrumental in launching the Western Labor Union, which soon became the American Labor Union, which in 1905 led the way to the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ).

Southern Baptists sent C. R. Daniel to oversee the work in 1901, and he was instrumental in organizing the Baptist Convention of Western Cuba in 1905.

His major work is Kaichoon 海潮音 ( The Sound of the Tide, 1905 ), a collection of translations from Western Poets by Ueda himself.

In 1903 he was also a member of the Royal Commission on Forestry, and during 1904 and 1905 he was President of the Municipal Association of Western Australia.

The foundation stone was laid by the Prince of Wales on the 11 November 1905 and the museum was formally named " Prince of Wales Museum of Western India ".

In 1905, Iwadare visited Western Electric in the U. S. to see their management and production control.

Connolly also covered the Idaho trial of the leaders of the Western Federation of Miners, who were accused of the assassination in 1905 of a former Idaho governor, Frank Steunenberg, putatively in retaliation for Steunenberg's calling of federal troops to suppress what he called a union " reign of terror.

Following the departure of Frank Brettell, Jack became player-manager of Plymouth Argyle in 1905, 1905 – 06, and led the club to third in the Western League and fifth in the Southern League.