2001 Terrorists break into parliament building in New Delhi, murder at least 12
2000 Frank Wills, often unemployed security guard, he the Democratic National Committee office in the Watergate Building had been burgled in June 1972, dies at 52
1997 An abandoned building collapses on New York's 42nd St, no one hurt
1997 Ali Abu Kamal opens fire in Empire State Building and kills 1
1995 Truck bomb at Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168
1995 Willem N "Pim" Koot, pianist (Concert Building), dies at 76
1994 Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose, California, 1 dead
1993 Red Tom Browning decides to watch his team play at Wrigley Field from the roof of a building across Sheffield Ave, he is fined $500
1993 2nd tallest building in world, New York City World Trade Center bombed, 7 die
1992 Last building in Gateway area in Cleveland is demolished
1991 Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building), dies at 90
1990 New York City's Empire State Building catches fire - no fatalities
1988 Royal Concert building in Amsterdam reopens
1985 Bomb attacks in NATO/AEG-Telefunken building in Brussels
1983 12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut
1982 Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building
1980 Columbia mated to SRBs and external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building
1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos and police stormed the building
1979 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate and Cat Building is dedicated
1978 Sun Bank Building opens
1978 Gov Askew dedicates RCUC solar office building
1974 Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in New York City (110 stories)
1973 Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building finished
1970 Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam
1970 Building begins of Amsterdam metro
1970 Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway
1968 Students seize administration building at Ohio State
1968 Students seize building at Bowie State College
1968 Howard University students seize administration building
1967 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College
1967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University
1966 Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in U.S.S.R.
1965 London's Post Office Tower opens, tallest building in England
1965 U.S.S.R. and Persia sign dam building and economic aid pact
1964 Ringo forms Brikley Building Company Ltd
1964 France and Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel
1963 C and A Building in Amsterdam burns down
1961 Building of Berlin Wall begins
1961 Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building in Amsterdam
1960 French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons
1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
1959 Citizens of Deerfield, Illinois block building of interracial housing
1959 U.S.S.R. and Egypt sign contracts for building Aswan Dam
1959 U.S.S.R. and Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor
1957 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM)
1956 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Francisco
1956 Pachyderm Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
1955 Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins
1953 Fokker begins building F-27 Fokker Friendship
1952 Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base
1950 Bird Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated
1950 Eliel Saarinen, Fins/US architect (Chicago Trib building), dies at 76
1950 President Truman approves building of hydrogen bomb
1949 Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses
1948 Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed
1946 Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building and burying 38
1945 Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building
1945 ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam
1945 Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin
1943 World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed
1941 Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp
1941 Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid
1941 IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1940 Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands
1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice
1936 Empire State Building emanates high definition TV-343 lines
1936 Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game)
1935 Huey P Long, (Sen-La) assassinated at Baton Rouge Capitol building
1934 Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp
1933 Adolf Loos, Austria architect (building of houses), dies at 62
1933 Nazis set fire to German parliament building, Reichstag, blame it on Communists
1931 Cornerstones laid for Opera House and Veteran's Building
1931 Blimp is moored to Empire State Building (New York City)
1931 Empire State Building opens in New York City
1930 Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium
1930 1st U.S. indoor glider flight, St. Louis Terminal Building
1929 New York City Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building
1929 President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam, Hoover Dam
1928 KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet
1928 1st U.S. air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio
1926 Building of Olympian Stadium Amsterdam, begins
1924 Louis H Sullivan, architect (Wainwright building St. Louis), dies at 67
1922 Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium
1922 Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam
1918 Willem N "Pim" Koot, pianist of Concert building, Oh, Lady! Lady!
1916 Norman Griggs, VP, Building Society Association
1914 New York Post Office Building opens to public
1911 New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft
1910 Eero Saarinen, Finnish/US architect, IBM Building, MIT Chapel
1910 Herbert Ashworth, CEO, Nationwide Building Society
1909 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, New York City)
1909 Harry B. Helmsley, born in New York City, billionaire builder, Empire State Building
1908 Max Abramovitz, U.S. architect, Lincoln Center, United Nations Building
1906 Alexander Bodon, Hungarian/Dutch architect, RAI building
1906 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas
1904 New York City begins building Grand Central Station
1902 Murk Ozinga, Dutch building historian, Monuments of Curacao
1902 Building begins on Dutch public housing
1900 Oscar Nitzchke, German architect, Alcoa building/Centre Pompidou
1899 San Francisco City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building
1898 San Francisco Ferry Building at foot of Market St. opens
1880 Building of Panama Canal, begins
1873 Louis Zimmermann, violinist and 1st concert master of Concert building
1870 Adolf Loos, Austria architect, building of houses
1864 Capt Mendell begins building 640m long ponton bridge over James R Va
1859 Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdams social alderman, building of houses
1850 Work starts on 1st brick building in San Francisco
1840 John Philip Holland, Liscannor Ireland, pioneer in submarine building
1835 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF)
1831 1st U.S. building and loan association organized, Frankford, Penn
1817 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn
1800 Congress held 1st session in Washington D.C. in incompleted Capitol building
1795 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky
1793 President Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building
1792 Cornerstone laid for 1st U.S. government building: U.S. Mint in Phila
1759 William Thornton, architect, Capitol building, Washington D.C.
1718 Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switz; kills 53
1660 Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building
1655 Middelburg Netherlands forbids building of synagogue
122 Building begins on Hadrian's Wall
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