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Gunpowder

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

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