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1865: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page dies.
1866: Friedrich Nietzsche uses Gnomon algorithm terminology to restate his doctrine of eternal return.
1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by Karl Guthe Jansky.
1965: Mathematician Karl Menger uses formalized definitions of the notions of angle and of curvature in terms of directly measurable physical quantities (ratios of distance values) to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

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 File:Nietzsche.jpg|link=|1866: [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Friedrich Nietzsche]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] terminology to restate his doctrine of eternal return.
 File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]].
-File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1965: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] in memory of [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]].
+File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1965: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] uses formalized definitions of the notions of angle and of curvature in terms of directly measurable physical quantities (ratios of distance values) to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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-– Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (b. 1805)
-– Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (b. 1878)
-– World War II: Six people are killed when a Japanese fire balloon explodes near Bly, Oregon. They are the only Americans killed in the continental US during the war.
-– The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.