Template:Selected anniversaries/May 8
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1703: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.
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.
1953: Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the Bernoulli family.
Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction) dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.