** The breech refers to the mass of solid metal behind the bottom of the bore extending to the base of the breech and including the base ring ; it also generally refers to the end of the cannon opposite the muzzle, i. e., the location where the explosion of the gunpowder begins as opposed to the opening through which the pressurized gas escapes.

** At a mail rockets demonstration by Gerhard Zucker on Hasselkopf Mountain near Braunlage ( Lower Saxonia, Germany ), 3 persons are killed by a rocket explosion.

** Space: 1999 ( 1975 – 1977 ): A huge explosion sends the Moon hurtling out of Earth's orbit on September 13 ( a Friday in the series, but not in reality ).

** Halifax Explosion: Two freighters collide in Halifax Harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia and cause a huge explosion that kills at least 1, 963 people, injures 9, 000 and destroys part of the city ( until the Trinity nuclear test, the biggest manmade explosion in recorded history ).

** A coal gas explosion at the giant Bishop coal mine in Bishop, Virginia kills 37 men.

** An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314.

** The worst coal dust explosion to date, in Honkeiko, China, claims 1, 549 lives.

** An explosion in Shaoyang, China kills 122 and injures over 400 when 10 tons of dynamite in an illegal explosives warehouse underneath an apartment building detonate.

** An explosion in a São Paulo suburban shopping centre kills 44 and injures more than 100.

** A bomb explosion in Kaspiysk, Russia, kills 32 people.

** A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33.

** Miike Coal Mine explosion: In Japan, a coal mine explosion kills 458 and sends 839 carbon monoxide poisoning victims to the hospital.

** A coal mine explosion in West Virginia kills 50 miners.

** A double explosion in downtown Richmond, Indiana kills 41 and injures 150.

** An explosion in an ammunition factory in Lapua, Finland kills 40.

** An explosion in Seveso, Italy, causes extended pollution to a large area in the neighborhood of Milano, with many evacuations and a large number of people affected by the toxic cloud.

** Mother Frances Hospital opens in Tyler, Texas in response to the New London School explosion.

** In Sriperumbudur, India, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated at a public meeting in Sriperumbudur, by suicide bomber Thenmozhi Rajaratnam ; many others are killed in the explosion.

** A huge gas explosion at a subway construction site in Osaka, Japan kills 79 and injures over 400.

** The Clarkston explosion in Scotland kills 22 people.

** An explosion and fire aboard the U. S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead.

** A coal mine explosion in Fukuoka, Japan kills 237.

** A fireworks factory disaster in Enschede, the Netherlands, kills 23.

** WWII: After flying from Britain, 160 American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.

** Linden Assembly, former factory site

** The Plane Makers, drama series set in an aircraft factory, 1962 – 65

** Chelsea porcelain factory

** Opening of new printing plate factory in Wuxi, China.

** Information / Knowledge Intensity — efficient production relies on information and know-how ; over 70 per cent of workers in developed economies are information workers ; many factory workers use their heads more than their hands.

** Kathmandu: A soft-drink bottling factory owned by a multi-national company is attacked and the building torched.

** Branch plant, factory

** 369 British bombers and five U. S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortresses make a very successful attack on the Dunlop Rubber factory at Montluçon, France, hitting every building and starting a large fire.

** 123 British bombers seriously damage the SNCAM aircraft factory at Meulan-Les-Meureaux, France.

** 15 Lancasters of No. 617 Squadron successfully attack the aircraft factory at Albert, France.

** 22 British Lancasters, mostly from No. 617 Squadron, make a successful precision attack on the Michelin tire factory at Clermont-Ferrand, France.

** 19 Lancasters ( 13 from No. 617 Squadron ) make a successful precision raid on the explosives factory at Bergerac, France.

** Twentieth Air Force B-29s raid the Ōmura aircraft factory on Kyushu.

** In support of the upcoming U. S. invasion of Okinawa, Twentieth Air Force B-29s strike airfields and an aircraft factory on Kyushu and lay naval mines in Shimonoseki Strait.

** 275 B-17s escorted by four groups of P-51 Mustangs attack the Pilzen-Škoda armament factory in Czechoslovakia.

** Seven dead after factory blast, but rescuers hopeful ( Wednesday )

** Education and training-a municipal college, a professional factory maintenance college, 44 primary schools, 4 nursery schools, a women's institute for education and training ( IFEF ).

** No OEM fuel / water separator was factory installed on any Olds Diesel.

** At least 12 workers have been shot dead as they are driven away from the state owned factory they work at, in the Abu Ghraib area, by insurgents.

** Canadian Air and Space Museum, formerly the Toronto Aerospace Museum and before that the original factory for de Havilland Aircraft of Canada ( until 2012 )

** Transcend broke ground on the future site of its factory in Shanghai, China.