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2013 Event - A transistor-like transcriptor is built out of DNA and RNA molecules by American bioengineers at Stanford University

2012 Event - A fire breaks out in the Tamweel Tower, one of about 80 towers built or still under construction in the Jumeirah Lake Towers, Dubai

2011 Event - At the Zekiah Swamp in Charles County, Maryland, archeologists believe they found a fort from 1680 built to protect the 'friendly' Piscataway Indians

2010 Event - Tibet's Galongla Tunnel, built at an altitude of 3,750 meters, is completed, linking Medog county to the outside world

2010 Event - The theory that Egypt's pyramids were built by free workers, not slaves, is reinforced by the discovery of new tombs near the great pyramids

1986 Event - Hall of Fame and Museum announced to be built in Cleveland

1969 Event - Last Chevrolet Corsair built

1957 Event - Giants rent Seals Stadium until Candlestick is built

1956 Event - 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago, Illinois

1955 Event - Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan

1954 Event - 1st coml jet transport plane built in U.S. tested (Boeing 707)

1952 Birthday - John Otway, born in Buckinghamshire, England, unsuccessful singer, built large cult following based on underdog persona

1942 Event - 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wi

1941 Event - Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built

1936 Event - London's Crystal Palace (built 1851), destroyed by fire

1935 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt ordersa federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox Kentucky

1933 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt authorizes 1st swimming pool built inside the White House

1931 Event - 1st theater built for rear movie projection (New York City)

1929 Event - 1st U.S. roller coaster built

1919 Event - 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched

1919 Death - Henry Clay Frick, built largest coke and steel operation, dies at 69

1913 Event - 1st 4 engine aircraft built and flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)

1906 Event - Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France

1904 Event - 1st stadium built specifically for football (Harvard Stadium)

1896 Event - 25th auto built in US

1893 Event - 1st electric car (built in Toronto) could go 15 miles between charges

1893 Event - 1st auto built in U.S. (by Duryea brothers) runs in Springfield

1892 Event - 1st concrete-paved street built, Bellefountaine, Ohio

1892 Birthday - Richard J. Neutra, Austrian and U.S. architect, Who Built America

1888 Birthday - Robert Moses, power broker, built Long Island and New York City parks and roads

1869 Birthday - J Frank Duryea, inventor, 1st auto built and operated in U.S.

1864 Event - Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)

1863 Event - Fortifications built on Angel Island (SF Bay) by troops

1861 Birthday - Charles Edgar Duryea, inventor, 1st auto built and operated in U.S.

1858 Birthday - George Washington Goethals, engineer, built Panama Canal

1857 Birthday - Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of 1st U.S. autos

1849 Birthday - Henry Clay Frick, Penn, built world's largest coke and steel operation

1846 Birthday - Daniel Burnham, U.S., architect/built skyscrapers

1830 Birthday - Adolph Sutro, San Francisco mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels

1822 Birthday - John Eberhard, built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US

1810 Birthday - Donald McKay, U.S. naval architect, built fastest clipper ships

1805 Birthday - Ferdinand de Lesseps, France, diplomat, built Suez Canal

1788 Event - 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound

1765 Birthday - Robert Fulton, built 1st steamboat

1764 Birthday - Benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect, built Capitol

1744 Birthday - Eise J Eisinga, Frisia, built planetarium Franeker

1725 Birthday - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed and built 1st automobile

1716 Event - 1st U.S. lighthouse built (Boston)

1714 Event - Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)

1592 Birthday - Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India, 1628-58, built Taj Mahal

1370 Event - Bastille begins being built in Paris

1345 Birthday - Ferdinand I, the wise one, king of Portugal, built navy

765 Event - Coffin of Ho-tse Shen-hui interred in a stupa built in China

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