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| Joseph Lister sprays antiseptic on a patient during surgery |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Thomas Hobbes (1588; died December 4, 1679) English philosopher;
Leviathan
Joseph Lister (1827; died February 10, 1912) British surgeon;
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery;
Autobiography
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837; died April 10, 1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic;
Poems and Ballads
Booker T. Washington (1856; died November 14, 1915) American educator and author;
The Story of My Life and Work;
Up From Slavery
Died on this day:
Allen Ginsberg (1997; born June 3, 1926) American poet; best-known for "Howl"
Saul Bellow (2005; born June 10, 1915) Canadian-American novelist, short story writer, and playwright;
The Adventures of Augie March;
Henderson the Rain King;
Herzog;
Mr. Sammler's Planet;
Humboldt's Gift; Nobel Prize in Literature (1976); Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1976)
Bonus Classic:
Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan (composed between 1618 and 1681) "
The Story of a Marital Fate to Awaken the World," Chinese novel attributed to "Xizhou Sheng" (a pseudonym).
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