Events
1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies," where he introduces special relativity.
Births
1817 - Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist and confidant of Charles Darwin.
1926 - Paul Berg, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1709 - Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist
1857 - Alcide d’Orbigny, French naturalist
1919 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
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