2013 Event Savar, Bangladesh celebrates a woman found alive in the rubble 17 days after after a garment factory building collapsed and killed over 1,042 people 2012 Event Sweden's media reports the country is helping Saudi Arabia plan the construction of a weapons factory 1993 Event Fire in textile factory in Fuzjou China, 60 killed 1993 Event Fire in clothing factory at Bangkok, kills 145 1992 Death Jean Daskalides, Belgian chocolate factory, dies at 70 1992 Event 19th American Music Award: C and C Music Factory, Michael Bolton win 1985 Event Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK explodes, 21 die 1978 Event Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode," blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado 1976 Event Chemical factory in Milan explodes (dioxane cloud) 1972 Event Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy) 1966 Event Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in U.S.S.R. 1960 Event Scotch factory explodes burying 20 fire fighters (Glasgow Scotland) 1959 Event Dutch prince Bernhard visits Lockheed factory 1957 Birthday Teresa Ganzel, born in Toledo, Ohio, actress, Teachers Only, Duck Factory 1955 Birthday Clarence Gilyard, Jr., Moses Lake Wash, actor, Chips, Duck Factory 1954 Event Great Britain's 2 biggest steel factory nationalized 1954 Birthday Iain [Menzies] Banks, UK, sci-fi author, Wasp Factory 1954 Birthday Saskia ten Batenburg, Dutch actress, Factory, Hunk 1953 Event Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory 1952 Birthday Melvyn Gale, born in London, England, musician, classical musician, cellist, member, Electronic Light Orchestra, ELO, runs CD factory 1950 Event Doorne's Auto factory opens in Netherlands 1947 Event Naval torpedo and mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300 1947 Event Muiden Netherlands ammunition factory explodes, 16 die 1944 Birthday John Thornton, English chocolate factory/multi-millionaire 1943 Event RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam 1942 Event RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die) 1942 Event German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed 1942 Event German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad 1940 Event British bomb factory at Breda 1939 Birthday Jay Tarses, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actor and writer, Open All Night, Duck Factory 1938 Birthday Alan Lewis, English textile factory/multi-millionaire 1932 Birthday David Alliance, Iran/British textile factory/multi-millionaire 1929 Event ENKA/Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (Genl Kunstzijde Union) 1929 Event Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven, Netherlands opens 1924 Event Dutch Blast Furnace and Steel Factory opens 1923 Event French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die 1919 Event Anthony Fokker's establishes airplane factory at Hamburg and Amsterdam 1918 Event Royal Dutch Blast furnace and Steel factory opens in Hague 1918 Event TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale, Pennsylvania kills 200 1918 Event Strike on Berlin ammunition's factory 1917 Event Ammunition factory in Boleweg Bohemia explodes, killing 1,000 1917 Event Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers 1917 Event Silvertown Essex's ammunition factory explodes; 300 die 1916 Event U.S.S.R. La Satannaya ammunitions factory explodes, killing 1,000 1911 Event Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls 1902 Birthday Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, Ultimatum Factory, 1902 Birthday Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, Ultimatum Factory, 1895 Death Charles T Stork, great industrialist (cotton mach factory), dies at 73 1869 Birthday Albert Kahn, architect, originated modern factory design 1862 Birthday Auguste Lumiere, made 1st movie, Workers Leaving Lumiere Factory 1851 Event Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory 1837 Birthday Gerrit Jan van Heek, textile factory/politician 1825 Event Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community 1822 Birthday John Eberhard, built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US 1815 Event World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland 1786 Event Montplaisir Ceramic factory opens in Schaarbeek Belgium 1771 Birthday Robert Owen, England, factory owner/socialist
