Template:Selected anniversaries/May 5

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  1865: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page dies.

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  1866: Friedrich Nietzsche uses Gnomon algorithm terminology to restate his doctrine of eternal return.

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  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.

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  1965: Mathematician Karl Menger publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions in memory of Charles Grafton Page.

1859 – Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (b. 1805)

1957 – Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (b. 1878)

1945 – 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.

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