2012 Event Mohamed Yousef el-Magariaf, Chairman of Libya's legislative authority, the General National Congress, says al-Qaeda elements who fought with rebels in Libya's civil war number "up to 200" in Libya 2012 Event For the first time, a browsable, analysable overview of four million functional elements of the human genome discovered to date, are made available to the public in the 'Encyclopedia of DNA Elements' 1999 Death "Glen Seaborg, Ph.D", chemist, won a Nobel for discovering plutonium and other elements, dies at 86 1995 Death James Ingram Merrill, U.S. poet (Braving the elements), dies at 68 1932 Birthday Graham Arnold, born in England, artist, founder of Brotherhood of Ruralists, other members include Jann Haworth, Sir Peter Blake, worked with oil and mixed media, realistic and surrealistic elements 1899 Birthday E. B. White, Charlotte's Web, Elements of Style 1875 Death Charles Lyell, British geologist (Elements of Geology), dies at 77 1834 Birthday Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist, discovered periodic table of the elements 1799 Birthday John Lindley, English botanist, Elements of Botany 1778 Birthday Hunphry Davy, English chemist, discovered some elements
