1986 Hall of Fame and Museum announced to be built in Cleveland
1969 Last Chevrolet Corsair built
1957 Giants rent Seals Stadium until Candlestick is built
1956 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago, Illinois
1955 Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan
1954 1st coml jet transport plane built in U.S. tested (Boeing 707)
1942 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wi
1941 Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built
1936 London's Crystal Palace (built 1851), destroyed by fire
1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt ordersa federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox Kentucky
1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt authorizes 1st swimming pool built inside the White House
1931 1st theater built for rear movie projection (New York City)
1930 1st night game in Detroit at newly built Hamtramck Stadium as Negro League Detroit Stars take on Kansas City, Missouri narchs
1929 1st U.S. roller coaster built
1919 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
1919 Henry Clay Frick, built largest coke and steel operation, dies at 69
1913 1st 4 engine aircraft built and flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)
1906 Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France
1904 1st stadium built specifically for football (Harvard Stadium)
1896 25th auto built in US
1893 1st electric car (built in Toronto) could go 15 miles between charges
1893 1st auto built in U.S. (by Duryea brothers) runs in Springfield
1892 1st concrete-paved street built, Bellefountaine, Ohio
1892 Richard J. Neutra, Austrian and U.S. architect, Who Built America
1888 Robert Moses, power broker, built Long Island and New York City parks and roads
1869 J Frank Duryea, inventor, 1st auto built and operated in U.S.
1864 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
1863 Fortifications built on Angel Island (SF Bay) by troops
1861 Charles Edgar Duryea, inventor, 1st auto built and operated in U.S.
1858 George Washington Goethals, engineer, built Panama Canal
1857 Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of 1st U.S. autos
1849 Henry Clay Frick, Penn, built world's largest coke and steel operation
1846 Daniel Burnham, U.S., architect/built skyscrapers
1830 Adolph Sutro, San Francisco mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels
1822 John Eberhard, built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US
1810 Donald McKay, U.S. naval architect, built fastest clipper ships
1805 Ferdinand de Lesseps, France, diplomat, built Suez Canal
1788 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound
1765 Robert Fulton, built 1st steamboat
1764 Benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect, built Capitol
1744 Eise J Eisinga, Frisia, built planetarium Franeker
1725 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed and built 1st automobile
1716 1st U.S. lighthouse built (Boston)
1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
1592 Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India, 1628-58, built Taj Mahal
1370 Bastille begins being built in Paris
1345 Ferdinand I, the wise one, king of Portugal, built navy
765 Coffin of Ho-tse Shen-hui interred in a stupa built in China
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