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||1961 – The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
||1961 – The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.


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]].
|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]].


||1987 – Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
||1987 – Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America

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  • 1859: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

    1859: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

  • 1868: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.

    1868: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.

  • 1869: Friedrich Nietzsche uses his doctrine of eternal return to hunt down and capture math criminals.

    1869: Friedrich Nietzsche uses his doctrine of eternal return to hunt down and capture math criminals.

  • 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.

    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.

  • 2017: The Eel Time-Surfing wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most exciting illustration of the decade."

    2017: The Eel Time-Surfing wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most exciting illustration of the decade."

  • 2018: Creature 3, stolen last year by the Forbidden Ratio gang, is recovered with all of its data intact.

    2018: Creature 3, stolen last year by the Forbidden Ratio gang, is recovered with all of its data intact.

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