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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.

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 ||1727: Cosimo Alessandro Collini born ... historian and Voltaire's secretary from 1752 to 1756. Pic.
+||1788: Edward Sabine born ... astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer, soldier ... Sabine led the effort to establish a system of magnetic observatories in various parts of British territory all over the globe, and much of his life was devoted to their direction, and to analyzing their observations. Pic.
 ||1801: Joseph Plateau born ... physicist and academic, created the Phenakistoscope.