This Day In History
- Arts
- 1934 A teenaged Ella Fitzgerald won the weekly Amateur Night at Harlem’s Apollo Theater.
- 2001 Whoopi Goldberg becomes the first woman presented with the Mark Twain Prize, American comedy's top honor.
- Law
- 1918 The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 is passed, allowing women to stand for Parliament in the UK.
- Science
- 1905 Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik. Having given up her own career when he impregnated her out of wedlock, his wife Mileva Maric was an uncredited collaborator for many years, with Einstein admitting 'My wife solves all my mathematical problems.'
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