On May 28, 1959 a rhesus monkey named Able and a squirrel monkey named Miss Baker blasted off on an American Jupiter missile and became the first primates to successfully travel into space and return to Earth alive.
Rochdale were seeking their second successive play-off final - having lost 3-2 to Stockport County at Wembley last season - but it is Gillingham who keep their dream alive of an instant return to League One following last season's relegation.
Part two of this three part series explores how the recreational and semi-professional players of Seattle would keep the sport alive until it was able to return to top flight US soccer.
In return for them, in effect, keeping Kyoto alive for another five years, they want all countries to pledge to negotiate a new agreement, to be completed by 2015.
Even if doctors could tell which patients' livers were already on the path to recovery, they would still need to keep those patients alive long enough for the liver to return to form.
Those pesky Liberal Democrats were Labour's poodle said John Redwood while Oliver Letwin almost fluffed his return while musing out loud that he may have been a Liberal if Jo Grimmond were still alive, but as he wasn't the Liberals were clearly a very bad thing - after all they would raise taxes even higher than Labour.