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1889: Astronomer and cosmologist Edwin Hubble. He will discover the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.
1908: Mathematician Georgy Voronoy dies. He invented what are today called Voronoi diagrams or Voronoi tessellations.
1924: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot born.
1924: Captive supervillain Fugitive Rubies gathering strength for escape attempt, says Niles Cartouchian.
1934: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Willem de Sitter dies. He co-authored a paper with Albert Einstein in 1932 in which they discuss the implications of cosmological data for the curvature of the universe.
1980: Lake Peigneur drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.
1996: Theoretical physicist and crime-fighter Mohammad Abdus Salam translates electroweak unification theory into Gnomon algorithm functions, providing a library of techniques for detecting and preventing crimes against electroweak forces.
1980: Voyager 1 flies by Saturn, completing its primary mission.
1981: Outbreak of Geometrical frustration releases previously unknown class of crimes against mathematical constants, causing an outbreak of Scrimshaw abuse.

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 ||1778: Francesco Cetti dies ... priest, zoologist, and mathematician.
+||1787: Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse born ... firearms inventor and manufacturer. He is most famous for submitting the Dreyse needle gun in 1836 to the Prussian army. Pic.
 ||1820: An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel ''Moby-Dick'' is in part inspired by this story.)