Daily Almanac for

Aug 22, 2008

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World Events

• In Russo-Japanese War, Port Arthur surrenders to Japanese; Russia suffers other defeats.
  
  
• The Russian Revolution of 1905 begins on “Bloody Sunday” when troops fire onto a defenseless group of demonstrators in St. Petersburg. Strikes and riots follow.
  
  
• Sailors on Russian battleship Potemkin mutiny; reforms, including first Duma, established by Czar Nicholas II's “October Manifesto.”
  
  

U.S. Events

• Industrial Workers of the World is founded in Chicago with the hopes of uniting all workers and giving more control to unions.
  
  
• Numerous advancements in train service include 18-hour rides between New York and Chicago and the first train ever equipped with electric lights. Background: Railroads
  
  

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• Isadora Duncan establishes the first school of modern dance in Berlin.
• The first movie theater opens in Pittsburgh.

Science

• Albert Einstein proposes the Theory of Relativity.

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