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1774: Astronomer Francis Baily born. He will observe "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse (1836).
1847: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker uses number theory to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1868: Mathematician Georgy Voronoy born. He will invent what are today called Voronoi diagrams or Voronoi tessellations.
1986: High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
1986: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane visits the stricken Chernobyl reactor, calls it "a waste of good fissionable material."
2017: New survey shows that Fantasy Voronoi diagram is more popular than Fantasy Football.

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 File:Georgy Voronoy.jpg|link=Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|1868: Mathematician [[Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|Georgy Voronoy]] born. He will invent what are today called [[Voronoi diagram (nonfiction)|Voronoi diagrams]] or Voronoi tessellations.
 File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: High levels of radiation resulting from the [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl disaster]] are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
+File:Radium Jane.jpg|link=Radium Jane|1986: Celebrity time-traveller [[Radium Jane]] visits the stricken [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl  reactor]], calls it "a waste of good fissionable material."
 File:Voronoi-diagram-color-commentators.jpg|link=Fantasy Voronoi diagram|2017: New survey shows that [[Fantasy Voronoi diagram]] is more popular than [[Fantasy football (American) (nonfiction)|Fantasy Football]].
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