Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 8 May 1794

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Hellmann survived and remembered the licence plate number of her attacker's car. Later that day with the car registration number in their hands, Mainz police searched the area for the red Renault car driven by Bernd Bopp. Finding the car parked twenty miles away in Alzey, Bopp was lying in the sunshine near the car reading a book as police approached and arrested him.
(15 May 1981)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Thursday 8th of May 1794 230 years ago
Nobleman and chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier aka The Father of Modern Chemistry is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 51 in Place de la Révolution, VIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Lavoisier was charged with tax fraud and selling adulterated tobacco and tried, convicted and executed on the same day.