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Historical Event(s)
– Russo-Japanese War: The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, China
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology.
– The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
– Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.
– Norway and Sweden sign the “Karlstad treaty”, peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
– The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the equation E=mc².
– The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
– Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia’s first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
– 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 ?
– Luigi Zampa, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1991)
– Harold Arlen, American composer (d. 1986)
– Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician
– Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (d. 1990)
– Constant Lambert, British composer (d. 1951)
– Ernst Kuzorra, German footballer (d. 1990)
– Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (d. 1960)
– Erika Mann, German writer (d. 1969)
– Mischa Auer, American actor (d. 1967)
– William Loeb III, American newspaper publisher, (d. 1981)