Template:Selected anniversaries/August 3
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1792: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright dies. Later in his life Arkwright was known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system." Pic.
1917: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand Georg Frobenius dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.
1918: Chemist and spymaster Sidney Gottlieb born. Gottlieb will be known as "America's Poisoner" for his development of assassination weapons for the CIA, and for his leadership in the Project MKUltra mind control program.