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Bill Gates is bornUS Federal Power Act authorizes federal hydroelectric projectsUS Supreme Court allows New Jersey to dump sewage into New York harborCommerce Department holds conference to consider “the subject of water pollution and its relation to the fisheries.”Leaded gasoline discoveredHarry Ricardo publishes The High Speed Internal Combustion EngineOil Pollution Act finally passed in weakened formLeaded Gasoline Factory DeathsCommerce Secretary Herbert Hoover receives but does not publicize a report concerning alternatives to leaded gasoline then being used in 25 foreign countries.Surgeon General holds a conference on leaded gasoline. Ethyl officials claim it is a “Gift of God” and no alternatives are possible.Crash of the US Airship Shenandoah500,000 horsepower hydroelectric tidal barrage approvedSeveral industrial smog in Donora Pennsylvania killed 20 people and made 7,000 more sick.The Great Smog of 1952U.S. Congress passed the Clean Air ActOhio’s Cuyahoga River was in flames due to Chemical pollutantsFirst Earth Day.Clean Air ActClean Air Act - acid emission regulationsClean Water Act“Official Washington has no knowledge that the American people give a damn about pollution, and until they do care, there will be no great advance as to pollution.” (Drake, 1973).The EPA discussed a total ban on leaded gasolineExxon Valdez oil spillMore than 62% of industrial and municipal facilities across the country discharged more pollution into U.S. waterways than their Clean Water Act permits46% of all Americans resided in counties with unhealthy levels of either ozone or particle pollution, according to the American Lung Association (ALA)CNN reported that “up to 500 million tons of heavy metals, solvents and toxic sludge slip into the global water supply every year.How to build an x-ray machine -- for boys. A public disregard for radiation and health.Surgeon General’s committee of experts on leaded gasoline reluctantly permit Ethyl to return to the fuel market.First large scale survey of air pollution in U.S., in Salt Lake City.Bombing of HiroshimaBombing of NagasakiChina Opens Its DoorsPTSD is coinedShell Shock is coinedThe Triangle Shirtwaist Company’s fire resulted in the tragic loss of nearly 150 young women and girlsThe Great Migration (1915)The Prophet (The book to break conformity)The Birth Control Pill Is ApprovedCivil Rights Movement: The Children March in BirminghamPerioden
Microsoft Corp.Tetraethyl Lead gasoline is sold widely across AmericaNew York and other cities and states ban leaded gasoline.Environmental MovementPhilippine American WarWorld War IWorld War IIThe Spanish American WarThe Korean WarVietnam WarThe 1973 Arab Oil Embargo
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