september 27 in history: what happened

In 1825, the first public railway began in England. The steam locomotive, designed by George Stephenson, carried a train with 450 passengers from Darlington to Stockton at a speed of 24 km / h.

In 1863, the first kindergarten in Russia was opened in St. Petersburg.

On this day, but in 1905, Albert Einstein published the work “Does the inertia of a body depend on the energy contained in it?”, which proposed the famous E = mc2.

In 2001, the Norwegian government established the Abel Prize for Mathematical Research.

On September 27, the Dutch painter and engraver Karel Dujardin (1622); American astronomer, meteorologist, creator of the American Astronomical Journal Benjamin Gould (1824); French violinist virtuoso Jacques Thibaut (1880); lawyer, publicist, Russian writer, author of detectives Friedrich Neznansky (1932) were born.