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Guillermo Stábile
1905Jan, 17

Guillermo Stábile

Guillermo Stábile, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 1966)
Guillermo Stábile (17 January 1905 – 26 December 1966) was an Argentine professional football player and manager who played as a centre forward. At club level, Stábile won two national championships with Huracán and played in Italy and France. He was the top scorer of 1930 World Cup, the inaugural iteration of the tournament. As manager, he led Argentina to victory at six South American Championships and Racing Club to three league titles.

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    Battle of Tsushima

    Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
  • 26Sep

    Special theory of relativity

    Albert Einstein publishes his first paper on the special theory of relativity.
  • 26Oct

    Norway

    Sweden accepts the independence of Norway.
  • 30Oct

    Nicholas II of Russia

    Czar Nicholas II of Russia issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. This was October 17 in the Julian calendar.
  • 21Nov

    Mass-energy equivalence

    Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass-energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.