James Simpson, Jr., American race car driver and politician (d. 1960)
James C. Simpson Jr. (January 7, 1905 – February 29, 1960) was an American politician who served one term in the United States House of Representatives from 1933 to 1935, representing Illinois.
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Events on 1905
- 27May
Battle of Tsushima
Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins. - 28May
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. - 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.