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||2005 – Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day. | ||2005 – Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day. | ||
File:Richard Smalley.jpg| | File:Richard Smalley.jpg|link=Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|2005: Chemist and academic [[Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|Richard Smalley]] dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs. | ||
||2009 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program. | ||2009 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program. | ||
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1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.
2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
