BARON DE HIRSCH'S FUNERAL.; A Magnificent Pageant Follows to Montmartre a Plain Hearse.
Date: 28 April 1896
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Wallace Carothers Birthday, Date of Birth
Wallace Hume Carothers (; April 27, 1896 – April 29, 1937) was an American chemist, inventor, and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, who was credited with the invention of nylon.
Carothers was a group leader at the DuPont Experimental Station laboratory, near Wilmington, Delaware, where most polymer research was done. Carothers was an organic chemist who, in addition to first developing nylon, also helped lay the groundwork for neoprene. After receiving his Ph.D., he taught at several universities before he was hired by DuPont to work on fundamental research.
He married Helen Sweetman on February 21, 1936. Carothers had been troubled by periods of depression since his youth. Despite his success with nylon, he felt that he had not accomplished much and had run out of ideas. His unhappiness was exacerbated by the death of his sister, and on April 28, 1937, he committed suicide by drinking potassium cyanide, sixteen months before the public announcement of nylon's discovery on October 27, 1938. His daughter, Jane, was born on November 27, 1937.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Monday, April 27, 1896
- Place of Birth
- Burlington
- Age
- 129
- Star Sign
- ♉
The April 27, 1896 was a Monday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 117 day of the year. President of the United States was Grover Cleveland Second Term.
If you were born on this day, you are 129 years old. Your last birthday was on the Sunday, April 27, 2025, 188 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, April 27, 2026, in 176 days. You have lived for 47,304 days, or about 1,135,314 hours, or about 68,118,848 minutes, or about 4,087,130,880 seconds.
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27th of April 1896 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on April 27, 1896
CUBA'S REBELS ASSISTED; ARMS AND AMMUNITION LANDED ON THE COAST OF PINAR DEL RIO. Supplies Safe in the lianas of the in- surgents -- All the Tobacco Planta- tions Belonging to Pedro Murias, including Three Hundred Houses, Destroyed, and Three Thousand Persons made Dependent on the Rations of the Spanish Troops.
Date: 28 April 1896
Havana and Pinar del Rio; State of Siege; Marshal Campos's Proclamation; News Censorship; Horse Requisition
NEWS OF THE RAILROADS; A MINORITY REPORT ON PACIFIC ROADS INDEBTEDNESS. Congressman Hubbard of Missouri Appears Anxious to Head Off a Monopoly -- He Favors the Passage of the Morgan-Brice Senate Bill for the Adjustment of the Obli- gations of the Pacific Railroads to the Government.
Date: 28 April 1896
House Committee's Reports
DREAM LEADS TO DEATH; MRS. ANNA SNOW JUMPS FROM A WINDOW OF HER HOUSE. Unable to Rid Herself of the Halluci- nation that the Building Was on Fire, the Old Lady, Nearly Blind, Tries to Escape -- Of Good Birth and Well-to-do, Her Mind Had Been Weakened by Age and Sick- ness.
Date: 27 April 1896
Arrest for Kidnapping Alice Weidemeyer
THE SITUATION IN CUBA; SPANIARDS VIOLATE CIVILIZED METHODS OF WARFARE. J. Frank Clark, a United Press Corre- spondent, Tells of the Terrible Means Employed to Exterminate All Cubans and of the Actual State of Affairs as They Were When He Left Cuba a Short Time Ago -- Thinks Cuba Will Be Freed.
Date: 27 April 1896
Foreign Notes
SIXTY-SEVEN BURIED ALIVE.; Contractors' Greed Caused the Mine Disaster in Mexico.
Date: 27 April 1896
Santa Eulalia (Mexico) Mine Caves in; Sixty-seven Killed