The pilgrims sign the Mayflower Compact, Thomas Edison announces the phonograph, "Frankenstein" and "Rocky" premiere 45 years apart, and Tweety Bird makes his debut, all on this day.
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1905: Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?," is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik." The paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass, which leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².