DDT insecticide discovered
1939 · Event
Paul Müller finds DDT kills insects, a wartime lifesaver against malaria and typhus later condemned for its ecological harm.
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- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
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- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)