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Old April 22nd, 2008, 11:17 AM
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Re: This day in history

1915 – The Germans released chlorine gas as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres, killing over 5,000 soldiers within ten minutes by asphyxiation in the first large-scale successful use of poison gas in World War I. Ouch! a nasty way to die.
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