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File:Jean-Louis_Pons.jpg|link=Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|1831: Astronomer [[Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|Jean-Louis Pons]] dies. He was the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.
File:Jean-Louis_Pons.jpg|link=Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|1831: Astronomer [[Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|Jean-Louis Pons]] dies. He was the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.
||Alessandro Padoa (b. 14 October 1868) was an Italian mathematician and logician, a contributor to the school of Giuseppe Peano. He is remembered for a method for deciding whether, given some formal theory, a new primitive notion is truly independent of the other primitive notions.


File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1881: Writer and alleged troll [[Culvert Origenes]] calls [[Extract of Radium]] "a plague on all living things, and a curse on civilization."
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1881: Writer and alleged troll [[Culvert Origenes]] calls [[Extract of Radium]] "a plague on all living things, and a curse on civilization."

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  • 1831: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons dies. He was the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.

    1831: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons dies. He was the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.

  • 1881: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes calls Extract of Radium "a plague on all living things, and a curse on civilization."

    1881: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes calls Extract of Radium "a plague on all living things, and a curse on civilization."

  • 1884: Inventor George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.

    1884: Inventor George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.

  • 1948: Musician and physicist J. R. Oppenheimer performs his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

    1948: Musician and physicist J. R. Oppenheimer performs his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

  • 2010: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot dies.

    2010: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot dies.

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