August 26, 1743 –
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was born on this date. Dr. Lavoisier discovered Oxygen (Joseph Priestley may beg to differ) but not on this date; he was usually too busy celebrating his birthday.
The discovery was a great boon to science, as it enabled Breathing, without which many subsequent scientific advances would have been impossible.
And so it goes
The Haus of Dcaligari 