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||1856 – Farkas Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1775) | ||1856 – Farkas Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1775) | ||
File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The ship [[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]] attacked by [[Neptune Slaughter]] in mid-ocean. | |File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The ship [[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]] attacked by [[Neptune Slaughter]] in mid-ocean. | ||
||1885 – Olive Dennis, American engineer (d. 1957) | ||1885 – Olive Dennis, American engineer (d. 1957) | ||
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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.
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.
1980: Voyager 1 flies by Saturn, completing its primary mission.
1981: Outbreak of Geometrical frustration exposes new class of crimes against mathematical constants.