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Bloody peasants.

 

In some ways, Lavoisier is a classic example of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. His education, wealth, and connections allowed him to conduct experiments that nobody else could, which lead to many breakthroughs.  And, sadly, to his death. (Damn you, Marat.)

 

Had he lived in England, he might have lived another 20 years. Who knows what he could have come up with in that time?

 

It's also worth noting that much of what we know about Lavoisier's work comes from his wife, who was his lab partner and was not guillotined. 

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  • 1858 

    Minnesota became the 32nd state in the United States

  • 1894 

    The Pullman Strike began. 

  • 1949 

    Siam changed its name to Thailand

  • 1960 

    Israeli agents captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. 

  • 1973 

    Charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed. 

  • 1981 

    Reggae performer Bob Marley died of cancer in Miami at the age of 36. 

  • 1997 

    IBM's supercomputer, Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion, in a six game chess match (2 for blue, 1 for Kasparov, and 3 ties). 

  • 1998 

    India set off atomic blasts. 

  • 2003 

    91% of Lithuanian voters opted to join the European Union—the first former Soviet nation to do so.

     
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  • 1870 

    Manitoba became a province of Canada. #Canada150

  • 1932 

    The body of Charles and Anne Lindbergh's kidnapped baby was found. 

  • 1937 

    Britain’s King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London. 

  • 1943 

    Axis forces in North Africa surrendered. 

  • 1949 

    The Soviet blockade that prompted the Berlin airlift was ended. 

  • 1970 

    Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks, swatted his 500th home run. 

  • 2002 

    Former president Jimmy Carter became the first U.S. president (in or out of office) to visit Fidel Castro's Cuba

  • 2008 

    Tens of thousands killed and thousands injured when a 7.9 magnitude earthquake strikes Sichuan, Gansu, and Yunnan Provinces in western China. 

  • 2012 

    The 2012 World Expo began in Yeosu, South Korea.

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  • 1862 

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress on this day. 

  • 1911 

    The Standard Oil Company, headed by John D. Rockefeller, was ordered dissolved by the Supreme Court, under the Sherman Antitrust Act

  • 1918 

    The first air mail route in the U.S. was established between New York and Washington, DC, with a stop at Philadelphia. 

  • 1930 

    On a Boeing Air Transport flight between Oakland and Chicago, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess. 

  • 1940 

    Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States. 

    1941 
  • Historian and comix creator Jack Jackson was born. The cartoonist responsible for God Nose, Recuerden el Alamo, and a new, revamped version of Texas History Movies.
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  • 1972 

    Alabama Governor George Wallace was shot and crippled as he campaigned for the presidency. 

  • 1988 

    The Soviet Union began to withdraw its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.

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1863

 

Champion Hill - Grant mauled Pemberton’s army, forcing it back to Vicksburg and practically guaranteeing the fall of that city a month and a half later. It was there the fate of the Southern Confederacy, chattel slavery in the United States, and the entire political economy of the South was decided. Destroying that polity was the last bastion of the socio-economic/class war that had started in Henry VIII’s time, placing the value of capital and human talent over that of land and inherited privilege.

 

1868 

The first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment in the U.S. Senate failed to convict President Andrew Johnson.

 

  • 1929 

    The first Academy Awards were given on this night. The term, Oscars, was not used to describe the statuettes given to actors and actresses until 1931. 

  • 1946 

    The Irving Berlin musical, Annie Get Your Gun, opened on Broadway. d

  • 1952 

  • The son and successor of a well-known comic-strip cartoonist was born. Chris Browne, who much later took over Hagar the Horrible from his father, Dik Browne (whose other work includes The Tracy Twins).

  • 1975 

    Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest

  • 1991 

    Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress. 

  • 1997 

    President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire ended 32 years of autocratic rule when rebel forces led by Laurent Kabila expelled him from the country.

     
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  • 1536 

    Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was beheaded. 

  • 1588 

    The 130-ship-strong Spanish Armada set sail for England; it was defeated in August. 

  • 1643 

    The colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Harbor met to form the New England Confederation

  • 1921 

    Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, establishing national quotas for immigrants. 

  • 1928 

    The first annual Calaveras County "Frog Jumping Jubilee" was held in Angel's Camp, California. 

  • 1935 

    British author and soldier, T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash. 

  • 1962 

    Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy Birthday” to president John F. Kennedy.

  • 1992 

    The 27th  Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibited Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises, went into effect. 

  • 1994 

    Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York.

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  • 1455 

    The first battle in the 30-year War of Roses took place at St. Albans. 

  • 1761 

    The first life insurance policy in the United States was issued in Philadelphia. 

  • 1849 

    Abraham Lincoln received patent number 6469 for his floating dry dock. 

  • 1927 

    An earthquake near Xining, China, measuring 8.3 claimed approximately 200,000 victims. 

  • 1947 

    Harry S. Truman's Doctrine brought aid to Greece and Turkey to combat the spread of Communism

  • 1972 

    Richard Nixon arrived in Moscow, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the Soviet Union. 

  • 1990 

    North Yemen and South Yemen merged to form the Republic of Yemen

  • 1992 

    Johnny Carson hosted the last episode of his Tonight Show

  • 2003 

    The UN Security Council approved a resolution lifting the economic sanctions against Iraq and supporting the U.S.-led administration in Iraq. 

  • 2011 

    At least 140 people are killed and hundreds more injured as a three-quarter-mile-wide tornado hits Joplin, Missouri. The tornado is among the deadliest in the nation's history, destroying nearly a third of the city and damaging about 2,000 buildings, including water treatment and sewage plants. 

  • 2012 

    Tokyo Skytree, which at 634 meters high is the tallest tower in the world, opened to the public.

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  • 1647 

    The first recorded execution of a witch reportedly took place in Massachusetts when Achsah Young was hanged. 

  • 1703 

    St. Petersburg was founded by Czar Peter the Great. 

  • 1936 

    The Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage, arriving in France four hours later. 

  • 1937 

    Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opened. 

  • 1941 

    British ships sank the German battleship Bismarck off the coast of France, resulting in the loss of 2,300 lives. 

  • 1994 

    Nobel-prize winning dissident, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile. 

  • 1996 

    After a year and a half of bloodshed, Russian President Boris Yeltsin met with the leader of the Chechen rebels and negotiated a cease-fire. 

  • 1999 

    Slobodan Milosevic was indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague for crimes against humanity.

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  • 1431 

    Joan of Arc was burned at the stake as a heretic. 

  • 1536 

    King Henry VIII of England married his 3rd wife, Jane Seymour, 11 days after he had his 2nd wife, Anne Boleyn executed. 

  • 1911 

    The first Indianapolis 500 was won by Ray Harroun. 

  • 1922 

    The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, was dedicated by Chief Justice William Howard Taft

  • 1998 

    An earthquake in Northern Afghanistan (and subsequent aftershocks) killed an estimated 5,000 and injured at least 1,500. A quake on Feb. 4 in the same area had killed about 2,300.

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1790 

The first U.S. Copyright Law was enacted, protecting books, maps, and other original materials. 

  • 1889 

    Heavy rains caused the South Fork Dam to collapse, sending 20 million tons of water into Johnstown, Pa. Over 2,200 people were killed and the town was nearly destroyed. 

  • 1911 

    The hull of the Titanic was launched in Belfast. At the ceremony, a White Star Line employee claimed, “Not even God himself could sink this ship.” 

  • 1961 

    South Africa became an independent republic. 

  • 1962 

    Former Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel. 

  • 1970 

    An earthquake in Peru left more than 50,000 dead. 

  • 2004 

    Alberta Martin, 97, one of the last widows of a U.S. Civil War veteran, died. She had married Confederate veteran William Martin in 1927 when she was 21 and he was 81. 

  • 2010 

    Nine people are dead after an Israeli navy commando attacks a flotilla of cargo ships and passenger boats on their way to Gaza to provide aid and supplies for the area.

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  • 1792 

    Kentucky became the 15th state in the United States

  • 1796 

    Tennessee became the 16th state in the United States

  • 1938 

    The first issue of Action Comics, featuring Superman, was published. 

  • 1958 

    General Charles De Gaulle became the premier of France

  • 1968 

    Helen Keller, blind and deaf author-lecturer, died. 

  • 1980 

    Cable News Network (CNN) debuted. 

  • 2001 

    Nepal’s Crown Prince Dipendra went on a shooting spree, killing his father, mother, sister, brother, and other members of the royal family before shooting himself.

     
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