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Historical Event(s)
– Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology.
– Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete’s union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
– 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.
– Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
– Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.
– The verdict in the six-month long Smarthavicharam trial of Kuriyedath Thathri is pronounced, leading to the excommunication of 65 men of various castes.
– Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
– Albert Einstein’s paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, is published in the journal “Annalen der Physik”. This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².
– Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
Who Were Born On ?
– Sterling Holloway, American Character Actor (d. 1992)
– James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (d. 1997)
– Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (d. 2005)
– Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, German army officer and 20 July Plot conspirator (d. 1944)
– Arthur Davis, American animator (d. 2000)
– Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (declined) (d. 1980)
– Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (d. 1973)
– Joseph E. Levine, American film producer (d. 1987)
– Anthony Powell, British author (d. 2000)
– William Loeb III, American newspaper publisher, (d. 1981)