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Powder Events in History



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)









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