Template:Selected anniversaries/March 8
1822: Pharmacist, inventor, and industrialist Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)Ignacy Łukasiewicz born. He will build the world's first oil refinery and invent of the kerosene lamp.
1842: Rudolf Clausius demonstrates new type of scrying engine which pre-visualizes laws of thermodynamics.
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.
1927: Mathematician Karl Menger publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which which generate stochastic preventive algorithms in response to crimes against mathematical constants.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.