John Cornforth

John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)

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John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)

John Cornforth appears on our December 8 calendar for 2013 as a death entry.

Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.

May 112013 Reyhanlı car bombingsTwo car bombs by unknown perpetrators exploded in Reyhanlı, Turkey, resulting in 52 killed and 140 injured.
September 12NASANASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.
September 13TalibanTaliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead…
September 15Ivan KuleshThe Belarusian serial killer Ivan Kulesh murdered two saleswomen in Lida.
September 16Washington Navy Yard shootingA lone gunman fatally shot twelve people and injured three others at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C.
September 17Grand Theft Auto VGrand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.
September 18Via RailA VIA Rail train crashes into a double-decker bus at a train station in Ottawa, Canada, killing six people and injuring 35 others.
November 17Tornado outbreak of November 17, 2013An outbreak of 77 confirmed tornadoes occurred in seven U.S. states; it became the largest November tornado outbreak in Illinois and Indi…

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December 8 2013 — 13 years ago, on a Sunday.

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