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41st year  -  N° 9                 Friday, 9 January 2026         Antwerpen		
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Thursday 2nd of November 1944
82 years, 2 months and 7 days ago




Engineer and chemist Thomas Midgley aka the One-Man Environmental Disaster dies of strangulation at the age of 55 in Worthington, Ohio, United States.


Midgley accidently strangled himself with an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys he designed himself to lift him from his bed since he was struck by poliomyelitis in 1940.