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Franjo Šeper
1905Oct, 2

Franjo Šeper

Franjo Šeper, Croatian cardinal (d. 1981)
Franjo Šeper (2 October 1905, in Osijek – 30 December 1981, in Rome) was a Croatian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1968 to 1981, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.

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  • 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.
  • 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.