1996 Death Susan Bosence, textile designer, dies at 82 1996 Death Tibor Reich, textile designer, dies at 79 1993 Event Fire in textile factory in Fuzjou China, 60 killed 1940 Event Netherlands starts rationing textile 1938 Birthday Alan Lewis, English textile factory/multi-millionaire 1934 Birthday Bernard Nevill, textile designer 1932 Event 200,000 English textile workers strike 1932 Event Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions 1932 Birthday David Alliance, Iran/British textile factory/multi-millionaire 1924 Event 8 month Twenste textile strike ends 1924 Event Unions terminate Twentse textile strike 1923 Event Textile strike in Enschede, Netherlands, against lower wages, begins 1916 Birthday Tibor Reich, textile designer 1915 Death Gerrit Jan van Heek, Dutch textile manufacturer/politician, dies at 78 1914 Event 600 Dutch textile workers go on strike 1913 Birthday Susan Bosence, textile designer 1912 Event Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, MA 1907 Event Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union 1902 Event Textile workers strike in Enschede Netherlands till June 1 1895 Death Friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/marxist, dies 1837 Birthday Gerrit Jan van Heek, textile factory/politician 1795 Birthday Thomas Ainsworth, English/Netherlands industrialist, Twentse textile 1794 Event 1st U.S. textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Philadelphia 1775 Birthday Francis C. Lowell, founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill 1358 Death Etienne Marcel, French textile merchant/reformer/Boer leader, dies
