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March 5th

1575 - Birth of William Oughtred, English mathematician

1748 - Birth of Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist

1827 - Death of Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician

1827 - Death of Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist

1904 - Nikola Tesla describes the process of ball lightning formation.

1910 - Birth of Józef Marcinkiewicz, Polish mathematician

1915 - Birth of Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician

1925 - Death of Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician

1927 - Death of Franz Mertens, German mathematician

1958 - Explorer 2 spacecraft launches but fails to reach Earth orbit.

1970 - Dubnium atoms first detected conclusively.

1979 - Detection equipment picks up a gamma ray burst originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.

1979 - Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter (172000 miles).

1982 - Venera 14, a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus.

1998 - NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony.

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