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||1082: Nizam al-Mulk dies ... scholar and vizier. He wrote Siyasatnama ("Book of Government"), a political treatise that uses historical examples to discuss justice, effective rule, and the role of government in Islamic society. Pic search sculpture: https://www.google.com/search?q=nizam+al-mulk | |||
||1563: Jodocus Hondius born ... engraver and cartographer. Pic. | ||1563: Jodocus Hondius born ... engraver and cartographer. Pic. | ||
||1641: Joachim Tielke born ... instrument maker. Pic search instruments: https://www.google.com/search?q=joachim+tielke | ||1641: Joachim Tielke born ... instrument maker. Pic search instruments: https://www.google.com/search?q=joachim+tielke | ||
||1687: Robert Simson born ... mathematician and academic. | ||1687: Robert Simson born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||1727: Cosimo Alessandro Collini born ... historian and Voltaire's secretary from 1752 to 1756. Pic. | ||1727: Cosimo Alessandro Collini born ... historian and Voltaire's secretary from 1752 to 1756. Pic. | ||
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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.
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.
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.
2016: Blue City Sunset voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
