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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.
– 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.
– 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.
– Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
– 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.
– Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
– Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.
Who Were Born On ?
– Luigi Zampa, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1991)
– Franjo Šeper, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1981)
– Queenie Leonard, American actress (d. 2002)
– Red Nichols, American musician (d. 1965)
– Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
– Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
– Clarence Campbell, Canadian hockey executive (d. 1984)
– Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (d. 1990)
– Dalton Trumbo, American writer (d. 1976)
– Anthony Powell, British author (d. 2000)