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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.
1980: Voyager 1 flies by Saturn, completing its primary mission.
1981: Outbreak of Geometrical frustration exposes new class of crimes against mathematical constants.

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 ||1885 – Olive Dennis, American engineer (d. 1957)
+||Geertruida Luberta de Haas-Lorentz (b. 20 November 1885) was a female Dutch physicist and the first to perform fluctuational analysis of electrons as Brownian particles. Consequently she is considered to be the first woman in electrical noise theory.
 File:Edwin Hubble.jpg|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|1889: Astronomer and cosmologist [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|Edwin Hubble]]. He will discover the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.