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May 8

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  1. 1916 CEHindu · born

    Balakrishna Menon, later Swami Chinmayananda and founder of the Chinmaya Mission, was born in Ernakulam, Kerala.

  2. 1794 CEScience · died

    Antoine Lavoisier, the French chemist who named oxygen and hydrogen and helped establish modern chemistry through careful measurement, died in Paris during the French Revolution at the age of fifty.

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