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.’
9th November 1918: Wilhelm II abdicates as Kaiser of Germany
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Dozens were killed or injured when Pinkerton agents working on behalf of the Carnegie Steel Company fought striking steelworkers in Homestead, Pennsylvania.
The Brunner Mond chemical factory had been built in 1893 to manufacture caustic soda and soda crystals.
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.
On the 1st October 1928, the Soviet Union introduced Joseph Stalin’s first five-year plan.
22nd September 1888: First edition of National Geographic Magazine published
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21st September 1937: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is first published
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19th September 1970: The First Glastonbury Festival takes place in Somerset
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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