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1999 Jay Pritzker, billionaire, founded the Hyatt hotel chain, dies at 76

1993 Agatha Hagtingius-Seger, Dutch author (Sparkles Chain), dies at 91

1992 New York department store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores

1989 British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain

1983 Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England

1980 Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak

1974 Allen Jenkins, actor (Fugitive from a Chain Gang), dies at 74

1969 Fred Sherman, actor (Chain Lightning), dies after a stroke at 64

1966 Richard Whorf, actor (Chain Lightning), dies of heart attack at 60

1955 Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants in Illinois

1947 Denis Lawson, actor, Return of Jedi, Born Kicking, Chain

1942 Fred Ward, SD California, actor, Chain Reaction, Thunderheart, Equinox

1942 1st controlled nuclear chain reaction Enrico Fermi - University of Chicago)

1942 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago

1926 Big Mama Thornton, blues singer, Ball and Chain, Stronger than Dirt

1908 Ernst B Chain, German chemist/bacteriologist, penicillin, Nobel 1945

1904 Automobile tire chain patented

1896 Harvey Hubbell patents electric light bulb socket with a pull chain

1856 Andrey Markov, born in Russia, mathematician, Markov Chain

1766 1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley and chain



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