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||1981 – Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice. | ||1981 – Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice. | ||
File:Tim Berners-Lee (2009).jpg| | File:Tim Berners-Lee (2009).jpg|link=Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|1990: Engineer and computer scientist [[Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|Tim Berners-Lee]] publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web. | ||
||1997 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. | ||1997 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. | ||
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1941: New York mobster and hit man Abe Reles dies.
1944: Mathematician George David Birkhoff dies. He was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation.
1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren is convicted on falsification and fraud charges.
1990: Engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.