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Historical Event(s)
– 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.
– Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden.
– Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
– Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
– 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.
– František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
– Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia’s first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
– Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.
– Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
Who Were Born On ?
– Emilio G. Segrè, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1989)
– Doris Hare, Welsh actress (d. 2000)
– Robert Frederick Sink, United States Army Officer (d. 1965)
– Arthur Davis, American animator (d. 2000)
– Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (d. 1983)
– Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (d. 1986)
– Emilio Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 2011)
– Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (d. 1987)
– Erika Mann, German writer (d. 1969)
– Jule Styne, English-born composer (d. 1994)