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