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Étienne Desmarteau
1905Oct, 29

Étienne Desmarteau

Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian weight thrower and shot putter (b. 1873)
Étienne Desmarteau (4 February 1873 – 29 October 1905) was a Canadian athlete, winner of the weight throwing event at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

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    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.