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2010 Event - Ali Hassan al-Majid, former Iraqi minister, also known as Chemical Ali, is sentenced to death for the poison gas attack at Halabja

1996 Death - Ray McIntire, chemical engineer, dies at 77

1989 Event - Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet and U.S. chemical weapons

1989 Event - 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)

1989 Event - Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons

1989 Event - International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris

1976 Event - Chemical factory in Milan explodes (dioxane cloud)

1976 Death - Percy Julian, holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at 78

1974 Event - Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 29 in UK

1972 Event - Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium

1967 Event - U.S. Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material

1965 Event - U.S. confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong

1948 Event - I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die

1947 Event - Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles

1943 Birthday - Henk Vos, chemical analyst/Dutch politician, PvdA, 2nd Chamber

1921 Event - Gas explodes at Bradishe Aniline chemical works in Germany, 565 die

1920 Event - General Amos Fries appointed 1st U.S. Army chemical warfare chief

1918 Event - Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army

1918 Birthday - Ray McIntire, chemical engineer

1918 Event - TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale, Pennsylvania kills 200

1877 Event - American Chemical Society chartered in New York

1866 Birthday - Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in U.S. chemical industry, Dow Chemical

1865 Birthday - William Heinemann, England, publisher, Chemical Instrumental

1864 Event - William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae

1859 Event - GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun

1777 Birthday - Hans Christian Oersted, Den, physicist/chemist, View of Chemical Law

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