Pliny the Elder (Naturalis Historia) died on this day in 79 AD | |
Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume (History of England, The Natural History of Religion) died on this day in 1776 | |
Friedrich Nietzsche (Also Sprach Zarathustra, Ecce Homo) died on this day in 1900 | |
Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany's) died on this day in 1984 | |
On this day in 1992, Serbian forces destroyed 1.5 million books and manuscripts at the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, in one of the most extensive examples of ethnically-motivated biblioclasm of the 20th century. |
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