Template:Selected anniversaries/May 5
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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.