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1905 – Albert Einstein’s paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", is published in Annalen der Physik. This paper leads to the mass-energy equivalence E = mc².
1953 – Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the "Piltdown Man" skull was a hoax.
1969 – The first ARPANET link is established.
Births
1931 – Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian scientist
Deaths
1555 – Georg Agricola, German scientist
1652 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer
1881 – Ami Boué, Austrian geologist
1970 – Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1996 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel Prize laureate