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||1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young). | ||1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young). | ||
||Léon Rosenfeld (d. 23 March 1974) was a Belgian physicist and Marxist. Pic. | |||
||1977 – The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes. | ||1977 – The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes. | ||
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1749: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.
1882: Mathematician Emmy Noether born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
1964: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2001: The Mir spacecraft is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.
2011: Jean Bartik dies. She was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.
2017: Signed first edition of the "Enter or Exit" sequence from Game of Chance sells for five thousand dollars in charity auction of victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
