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||1909: A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
||1909: A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.


||1912: The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
||1911: Daniel Paul Schreber dies ... judge who suffered from what was then diagnosed as dementia praecox (later known as paranoid schizophrenia or schizophrenia, paranoid type). Though Schreber's book was made famous because of its value as a psychological memoir, the reason Schreber wrote the book was not for reasons of psychology. Schreber's purpose was expressed in its subtitle (which was not translated as part of the English edition, but fully reproduced inside it): "In what circumstance can a person deemed insane be detained in an asylum against his declared will?" Schreber, an accomplished jurist, wrote these memoirs in order to pose a legal question, namely, to what extent is it legitimate to keep someone like himself in an asylum when he expressly declares he desires his liberty. Pic.
 
||1912: The British passenger liner RMS ''Titanic'' hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).


||1927: Alan MacDiarmid born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. His best-known research was the discovery and development of conductive polymers—plastic materials that conduct electricity. He collaborated with the Japanese chemist Hideki Shirakawa and the American physicist Alan Heeger in this research and published the first results in 1977. The three of them shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work. Pic.
||1927: Alan MacDiarmid born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. His best-known research was the discovery and development of conductive polymers—plastic materials that conduct electricity. He collaborated with the Japanese chemist Hideki Shirakawa and the American physicist Alan Heeger in this research and published the first results in 1977. The three of them shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work. Pic.

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