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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