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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.
– Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world’s first service club.
– Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete’s union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
– Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Togo Heihachiro and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
– Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
– 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.
– František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
– The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
– Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
Who Were Born On ?
– Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, director (d. 1993)
– Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2007)
– John O'Hara, American writer (d. 1970)
– Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)
– Hussain Sha, Indian philosopher (d. 1981)
– Severo Ochoa, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
– Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)
– Manès Sperber, Austrian writer (d. 1984)
– Anthony Powell, British author (d. 2000)
– Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (d. 1982)