June 1905

Wednesday 07:

Norway declares the union with Sweden dissolved.

Wednesday 14:

Battleship Potemkin uprising: Sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war. (See also Eisenstein's classic film on the subject, The Battleship Potemkin).

Thursday 15:

Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustav, Crown Prince of Sweden.

Tuesday 27:

Mutiny on the battleship Potemkin.

Thursday 29:

Moonlight Graham makes his only major league baseball appearance, in a game between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Superbas but gets no at-bat.

Friday 30:

Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", where he introduces special relativity.