August 15


  • 1151 - St. Anthony's Fire - On this day in 1151 one in twenty of the 4000 inhabitants Pont Saint Esprit, a village in France, suffered hallucinations and other health effects from ergot poisoning.
  • 1785 - Thomas de Quincey, an English author and intellectual most famous for writing Confessions of an English Opium Eater, was born.

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