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1996 Ray McIntire, chemical engineer, dies at 77
1989 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet and U.S. chemical weapons 1989 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc) 1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons 1989 International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris 1976 Chemical factory in Milan explodes (dioxane cloud) 1976 Percy Julian, holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at 78 1974 Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 29 in UK 1972 Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium 1967 U.S. Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material 1965 U.S. confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong 1948 I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die 1947 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles 1943 Henk Vos, chemical analyst/Dutch politician, PvdA, 2nd Chamber 1921 Gas explodes at Bradishe Aniline chemical works in Germany, 565 die 1920 General Amos Fries appointed 1st U.S. Army chemical warfare chief 1918 Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army 1918 Ray McIntire, chemical engineer 1918 TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale, Pennsylvania kills 200 1877 American Chemical Society chartered in New York 1866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in U.S. chemical industry, Dow Chemical 1865 William Heinemann, England, publisher, Chemical Instrumental 1864 William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae 1859 GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun 1777 Hans Christian Oersted, Den, physicist/chemist, View of Chemical Law |
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