Events
1958 - Explorer program: Explorer I - The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
1958 - James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
1961 - Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 - Ham the Chimp becomes the first hominid in outer space.
Births
1868 - Theodore William Richards, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1881 - Irving Langmuir, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1929 - Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
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Staffers for Virginia Senator George Allen attacked a blogger today at a campaign event, and are now trying to lie their way out of it.
About a week ago, Sen. George Allen (R-VA) referred to an American of Indian descent as a "macaca" which is a racist slur (derived from the French word for monkey).
Sen. George "Macaca" Allen (R-VA) is quite possibly one sick puppy:
OK, I'm kidding (legally, he's too young). S.R. Sidarth is the native born Virginian who was called a racist slur by Californian transplant Sen. George Allen (R-VA).