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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 Gen 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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