A Patent Clerk Rewrites Time: Einstein's 1905 Relativity Paper
On June 30, 1905, a 26-year-old patent clerk's paper on the electrodynamics of moving bodies reached a physics journal and quietly rewrote space and time.
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The Treaty That Ended a War Halfway Around the World
On September 5, 1905, Japan and Russia signed the Treaty of Portsmouth at a U.S. navy yard in New Hampshire, ending a brutal war — and earning President Theodore Roosevelt the Nobel Peace Prize.