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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.
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1555 - Georg Agricola, German scientist
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1881 - Ami Boué, Austrian geologist
1970 - Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1996 - Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
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