1998 Death Walter Diemer, inventor (bubble gum 1928), dies of heart failure at 93 1998 Death Walter Diemer, inventor/accountant, invented bubble gum, dies at 93 1984 Death David, spent most of his life in a plastic bubble, dies at 12 1968 Event Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber) 1956 Event Noel Coward's musical "South Sea Bubble," premieres in London
