2013 Event Columbia University researchers believe the new material, graphene, even if stitched together, is the strongest material in the world 2013 Event A small pyrotechnics show ignited foram sound insulating material in the ceiling of Kiss, a crowded, windowless nightclub in southern Brazil's city of Santa Maria, killing 237 partygoers and injuring 169 others 2012 Event Scientists studying the Sutter's Mill meteorite, found near where the Sutter's Mill California Gold Rush site, determine it contains the oldest material in the Solar System 2009 Event Panic ensues when an earthquake strikes off the Bali coast in Indonesia, causing few injuries and little material damage 1978 Event Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode," blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado 1973 Event George Harrison releases "Living in the Material World" 1973 Event George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" goes gold 1969 Event Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material 1967 Event U.S. Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material
