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Battles & Sieges
1097 (929 years ago)
(1 July) The Crusaders defeated the Seljuks of Rum in the Battle of Dorylaeum. The Seljuks were led by Sultan Kılıç Arslan I.
Births
0965 (1061 years ago)
(1 July)  Noted Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist, Hasan ibn Al-Haytham (known as Alhazen in the West) was born in Basra, Iraq.

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