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29 May, 1919

Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity which had been proposed in 1916 was tested by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin during a solar eclipse in the city of Sobral, Brazil on 29th May 1919. The scientists were able to confirm the deflection of light caused by the gravitational field of the Sun.