1968 Event Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va) 1856 Event Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos 1807 Event Lightning hits gunpowder warehouse in Luxembourg; 230 die 1769 Event Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000 1639 Event Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill 1606 Death Guy Fawkes, convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot", executed at 35 1605 Event Gunpowder Plot; Catholics try to blow up English Parliament. Plot uncovered and leader Guy Fawkes hanged
