Template:Selected anniversaries/May 8

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  1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".

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  1789: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.

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  1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.

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  1872: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels defeats alleged criminal mastermind Baron Zersetzung in single combat.

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  1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.

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  1953: Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the Bernoulli family.

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  1960: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.

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  2016: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral 2 stolen from the Walker Art Center in New Minneapolis, Canada by the Forbidden Ratio gang.