Template:Selected anniversaries/March 8

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  1822: Pharmacist, inventor, and industrialist Ignacy Łukasiewicz born. He will build the world's first oil refinery and invent the kerosene lamp.

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  1842: Alleged supervillain Malady saves patient, accidentally kills doctor.

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  1879: Chemist and academic Otto Hahn born. He will pioneer the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission.

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  1900: Physicist and computer scientist Howard H. Aiken born. He will design the Harvard Mark I computer.

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  1901: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor uses set theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

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  1923: Theoretical physicist and academic Johannes Diderik van der Waals dies. He won the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.

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  1927: Mathematician Karl Menger publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which which generate stochastic preventive algorithms in response to crimes against mathematical constants.

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  1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.