Data: Law of Periods. Data confirming Kepler's Law of Periods comes from measurements of the motion of the planets.
The death of Rasputin - December, 1916. One hundred years ago on 30 December 1916, Grigori Rasputin, the Russian mystic who became a confidant of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, was brutally killed. After supposedly being poisoned, shot and beaten, he was thrown into the freezing waters of St. Petersburgâs Neva River by aristocrats fearful of the influence he wielded over the Romanov court.
A Duma (parliament) was elected that was boycotted by the Marxists, who urged revolution. Rasputin, the mad monk, influenced the czar's wife Alexandra by claiming to have cured the czar's only son of hemophilia. Rasputin was murdered and the czar delayed reform.