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1996 Susan Bosence, textile designer, dies at 82

1996 Tibor Reich, textile designer, dies at 79

1993 Fire in textile factory in Fuzjou China, 60 killed

1940 Netherlands starts rationing textile

1938 Alan Lewis, English textile factory/multi-millionaire

1934 Bernard Nevill, textile designer

1932 200,000 English textile workers strike

1932 Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions

1932 David Alliance, Iran/British textile factory/multi-millionaire

1924 8 month Twenste textile strike ends

1924 Unions terminate Twentse textile strike

1923 Textile strike in Enschede, Netherlands, against lower wages, begins

1916 Tibor Reich, textile designer

1915 Gerrit Jan van Heek, Dutch textile manufacturer/politician, dies at 78

1914 600 Dutch textile workers go on strike

1913 Susan Bosence, textile designer

1912 Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, MA

1907 Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union

1902 Textile workers strike in Enschede Netherlands till June 1

1895 Friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/marxist, dies

1837 Gerrit Jan van Heek, textile factory/politician

1795 Thomas Ainsworth, English/Netherlands industrialist, Twentse textile

1794 1st U.S. textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Philadelphia

1775 Francis C. Lowell, founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill

1358 Etienne Marcel, French textile merchant/reformer/Boer leader, dies


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