Mitchell Regrets Disasters.
Date: 09 April 1911
Melvin Calvin Birthday, Date of Birth
Melvin Ellis Calvin (April 8, 1911 – January 8, 1997) was an American biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Saturday, April 8, 1911
- Place of Birth
- Saint Paul
- Age
- 110
- Star Sign
- ♈
The April 8, 1911 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 97 day of the year. President of the United States was William Howard Taft.
If you were born on this day, you are 110 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, April 8, 2021, 4 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, April 8, 2022, in 360 days. You have lived for 40,182 days, or about 964,374 hours, or about 57,862,470 minutes, or about ∞ seconds.
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- Philip IV of Spain (monarch, born April 8, 1605)
- Edmund Husserl (mathematician, philosopher, university teacher, born April 8, 1859)
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- Christian IX of Denmark (monarch, born April 8, 1818)
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- John Richard Hicks (economist, university teacher, born April 8, 1904)
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- Jean Prouvé (politician, artist, architect, designer, born April 8, 1901)
- Fred Ebb (playwright, writer, poet, author, songwriter, composer, lyricist, born April 8, 1928)
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- Jürgen Moltmann (university teacher, theologian, born April 8, 1926)
- Alfred von Waldersee (politician, military officer, born April 8, 1832)
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- Walter Berry (singer, university teacher, opera singer, born April 8, 1929)
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- Larry Norman (singer, songwriter, composer, born April 8, 1947)
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8th of April 1911 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on April 8, 1911
ASTOR SAVED GARVIN FROM LOSING PAPER; Editor of The Observer Had to Retire or Buy Lord Northcliffe's Interest.
Date: 09 April 1911
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES
BURGLARY INSURANCE MEN SAY CRIME IS DECREASING; They Are Paying Less Money for Losses by Robbery Than for Years Past---Flynn Has Reduced the Number of Burglaries Below That in Any Regime Since Inspector Byrnes's.
Date: 09 April 1911
ART AT HOME AND ABROAD; Brooklyn Museum's Recent Acquisition of Enamels Makes That Institution a Mecca to Students of Chinese Art.
Date: 09 April 1911
LITERARY NOTES FROM LONDON; American Publishers on Their Annual Spring Quest for Books by English Authors
Date: 09 April 1911
THE ORGANIZED UNDERWORLD.; Judge of the Kings County Court.
Date: 09 April 1911
By Norman S. Dike
Norman Dike
What the Well Dressed Woman Wears; The French Dressmakers Revert to the Old-Fashioned Surah Silk for Warm Weather Gowns.
Date: 09 April 1911
By ANNE RITTENHOUSE
Anne RITTENHOUSE
OUR STOCKS INSPIRE FAITH ABROAD -- KAHN; Finds Flotation Veto in Germany Has Not Impaired Confidence in Them There.
Date: 09 April 1911
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times
Marconi Wireless
SENT WEDDING NEWS BY WIRE; Miss Wood Was Mrs. Sparrow, but Wasn't at Home When Guests Arrived.
Date: 09 April 1911
STATION AGENT SLAIN AT TELEGRAPH KEY; Murdered and Robbed Between Trains at Croton Lake, on the Central's Putnam Division.
Date: 09 April 1911
NY Central RR Croton Lake Station Agent Conklin slain while at telegraph key by holdup men