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2007 Hans Wollschlager, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses, dies in Bamberg, Germany
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 Cincinnati to San Francisco (completed February 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 1935 Hans Wollschlager, born in Minden, Germany, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses 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 Dika Newlin, born in Portland, Oregon, composer, child prodigy, began composing music at age 7, completed high school at 12, studied with Schoenberg at University of California at Los Angeles 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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