1970 Event 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield, Connecticut 1970 Event Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, and German youths (Val d'Isere, France) 1965 Birthday Sean Patrick Flanery, actor, Young Indiana Jones, Powder 1940 Event 49 die and 200 injured when Hercules Powder Company plant explodes, New Jersey 1889 Event Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany) 1887 Event Cliff House damaged when schooner "Parallel"'s powder cargo explodes 1867 Event 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall 1864 Event Skirmish at Lattermore's Mills/Powder Springs Georgia 1828 Event Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam)
