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Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (/ l ə ˈ v w ɑː z i eɪ / lə-VWAH-zee-ay; [1] [2] [3] French: [ɑ̃twan lɔʁɑ̃ də lavwazje]; 26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794), [4] also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
The Haymarket affair, also known as the Haymarket massacre, the Haymarket riot, the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
This is a list of people executed in Illinois. A total of twelve people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Illinois since 1977. [1] All were executed by lethal injection. Another man condemned in Illinois, Alton Coleman, was executed in Ohio. [2] Capital punishment in Illinois was abolished in 2011.
During their first date, Leslie Reeves and Chris Smith were ambushed in his Illinois home – both shot in the head. A crime scene investigator described it as one of the most horrific crime ...
On May 11, 1978, 28-year-old Lawrence Lionberg (who was working a night shift at a Homewood, Illinois, gas station) and his 23-year-old fiancé Carol Schmal were kidnapped. Schmal was raped several times and both were shot in the back of the head. [4] There was a public outcry at the brutal murder. The four suspects were tried in 1978.
On February 5, 2001, a mass shooting occurred at a Navistar engine plant in Melrose Park, Illinois, when 66-year-old William Daniel Baker fatally shot four employees and wounded four others with an SKS rifle before turning the gun on himself. He had previously worked at the facility until he was fired for conspiring to steal machinery. He had ...
One man was killed and seven people were wounded in three separate shootings hours apart in Peoria, continuing a spate of gun violence that started in the central Illinois city last weekend. The ...
The release of the video comes about two weeks after the fatal shooting and just days after Grayson was charged in her death.. Grayson, 30, was indicted by a grand jury last week on three counts ...