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2005 Qinghai-Tibet Railway is completed in China

1992 1st subway car completed to be exported from U.S. (to Taiwan)

1990 Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years

1988 World's Largest Sausage completed at 13 miles long

1987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed

1984 Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed

1984 Cleveland Metroparks' Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails are completed

1984 Chicago White Sox beat Milw Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (completed 5/9)

1984 Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed

1982 Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18)

1981 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed, Double Eagle V

1981 Longest game at Fenway Park completed in 20, Mariners-8, Red Sox-7

1977 Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed

1974 World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed

1974 Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975

1972 Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (completed 5/13)

1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia

1970 NL offices begins move from Cin to San Francisco (completed Feb 23)

1969 Neville Williams' "Chronology of the Expanding World" completed

1968 Beatles "White Album" completed

1968 Soyuz 4 and 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft

1965 630 foot high Gateway Arch completed in St. Louis

1961 Construction on Berlin Wall completed

1960 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed by Triton

1958 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia

1958 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days

1954 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed

1952 Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed

1950 1st major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5)

1947 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed

1945 Ratification of United Nations Charter completed

1943 Burma railroad completed and opens

1943 World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed

1942 Alaska highway completed

1941 Mount Rushmore is completed

1938 Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland

1937 U.S. Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio

1936 1st all-glass windowless structure in U.S. completed, Toledo, Ohio

1935 Boulder Dam completed

1933 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans

1933 Dachau, 1st concentration camp, completed

1931 Cleveland Municipal Stadium is completed

1930 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls

1930 1st transcontinental glider tow completed

1930 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed

1929 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed

1929 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca

1927 Construction of Spirit of St. Louis is completed

1923 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (New York - San Diego) completed

1914 Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed

1914 Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, San Francisco

1911 Lotschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed

1907 1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa

1906 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas

1905 Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed

1904 After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed

1903 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed

1900 New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million

1896 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!)

1895 U.S. Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan

1889 Universal Exposition opens in Paris, Eiffel Tower completed

1885 Canadian Pacific Railway completed at Craigellachie

1884 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria

1882 1st ocean pier in U.S. completed, Washington, D.C.

1880 Koln cathedral completed, 633 years after it begun

1880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed (began in 1248)

1880 Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland and Italy completed

1877 1st telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii completed

1877 1st cantilever bridge in U.S. completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky

1876 Southern Pacific line from LA to San Francisco completed

1870 Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado

1870 Brooklyn Bridge construction begins; completed May 24, 1883

1866 Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed

1861 1st telegraph line linking West and East coasts completed

1861 Ft. Point completed and garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)

1854 Marine Telegraph from Ft. Point to San Francisco completed

1834 1st railroad tunnel in U.S. completed, in Pennsylvania (275 m long)

1825 1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England

1820 Opera "Die Jagarsbraut" is completed

1800 White House completed and President and Mrs. John Adams move in

1773 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH

1608 Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey

1457 Earliest dated book, "Mainz Psalter," completed



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