The Brunner Mond chemical factory had been built in 1893 to manufacture caustic soda and soda crystals.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The Brunner Mond chemical factory had been built in 1893 to manufacture caustic soda and soda crystals.
Within two years up to 80% of the entire Polish workforce had joined Solidarity or one of its sub-organisations, and they regularly used strikes to achieve political change.
The Type 2 finally debuted on 12 November and by the end of its first year over nine and a half thousand vehicles had rolled off the production line.
American inventor Samuel Colt received the first government order for his revolver firearms from Captain Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers.
On the 10th April 1858 Big Ben – the bell inside the clocktower at the Palace of Westminster in Britain – was cast.
The explosion wiped out services for thousands of residents, while the stench from the open sewers was unbearable.
On the 27th September 1908, the first Model T Ford automobile rolled out of the Piquette Avenue factory in Detroit.
The first U.S. patent was awarded to Samuel Hopkins for an improvement ‘in making Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process.’
Dozens were killed or injured when Pinkerton agents working on behalf of the Carnegie Steel Company fought striking steelworkers in Homestead, Pennsylvania.
On the 1st October 1928, the Soviet Union introduced Joseph Stalin’s first five-year plan.
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