2014 Event National 9/11 Memorial officials announce that the 9/11 Museum will open mid-May; the long-delayed Museum, dedicated to the victims of the terror attack, plans to charge $24 for most adult tickets 2012 Event A new wing dedicated to Islamic art is opened at the Musee du Louvre in Paris, France; the area contains 3,000 from the seventh to the 19th century 2010 Event The first dedicated 3D TV channel in Europe, Sky 3D, launches in the UK 1994 Event Bob Feller Statue on Indians Plaza, dedicated 1992 Event Holocaust Museum dedicated in Washington D.C. 1989 Event 1st U.S. postmark dedicated to Lesbian and Gay Pride 1986 Event President Carter's presidential library dedicated in Atlanta 1985 Event Central Park's Strawberry Fields, dedicated 1982 Event Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington D.C. 1981 Event Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated 1980 Event Very Large Array radio telescope network dedicated 1980 Event Bronze plaque dedicated to memory of Thurman Munson at Yankee Stadium 1980 Event Plaque dedicated in Thurman Munson's memory at Yankee Stadium 1979 Event John F. Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston 1979 Event National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, New York) dedicated 1979 Event Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate and Cat Building is dedicated 1978 Event First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched 1978 Event Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm and Market, SF, dedicated 1977 Event Empress Lilly dedicated 1975 Event Louisiana Superdome is dedicated 1974 Event Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks' Big Creek Reservation dedicated 1972 Event American Museum of Immigration dedicated 1971 Event Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in San Francisco 1971 Event Fort Point, San Francisco dedicated as a national historic site 1971 Event Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium dedicated 1969 Event Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated 1968 Event Tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated 1968 Event Gateway Arch in St. Louis dedicated 1968 Event Japanese Trade and Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco 1966 Event Pioneer Plaza dedicated 1964 Event San Francisco Fire Department Museum is dedicated 1963 Event Pro Football Hall of Fame dedicated in Canton, Ohio 1962 Event Lion and Tiger Veldt at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated 1960 Event Tinseltown dedicated its Walk of Fame on Hollywood Blvd 1960 Event National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated 1959 Event Stinchcomb Memorial in Cleveland Metroparks' dedicated 1958 Event Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated 1958 Event Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated in San Francisco 1957 Event 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va 1956 Event World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Francisco 1955 Event New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado with 300 cadets 1954 Event Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising U.S. flag) dedicated in Arlington 1954 Event 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated, New Brunswick, New Jersey 1950 Event Bird Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated 1949 Event United Nations' permanent New York City headquarters is dedicated 1948 Event 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory 1941 Event 1st U.S. Army flying school for black cadets dedicated 1940 Event Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated 1940 Event Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge dedicated 1939 Event Aquatic Park, near Fisherman's Wharf, SF, is dedicated 1938 Event Rugers beats Princeton 1st time in 60 years as Rutgers Stad dedicated 1937 Event Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, dedicated 1934 Event Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated 1934 Event Easter Cross on Mount Davidson (SF) dedicated 1933 Event Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters 1933 Event Mount Rushmore dedicated 1930 Event Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated 1929 Event Mount Davidson dedicated as a San Francisco city park 1929 Event Salem, Oregon airport dedicated 1927 Event Peace Bridge between U.S. and Canada dedicated 1927 Event San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated 1926 Event Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu 1925 Event Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated 1924 Event Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated (SF) 1922 Event Lincoln Memorial dedicated 1919 Event Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala 1918 Event Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa 1917 Death Oswald Chambers, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning, dies from a ruptured appendix 1917 Event SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated 1915 Event SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph 1915 Event Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, SF 1911 Event New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft 1907 Event Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle 1904 Event Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated 1901 Event Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated 1897 Event Yerkes Observatory of University of Chicago is dedicated 1897 Event Grant's Tomb (famed of song and legend) dedicated 1893 Event Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah dedicated 1889 Event Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC 1886 Event Statue of Liberty dedicated by President Grover Cleveland 1885 Event Washington Monument dedicated in Washington D.C. 1882 Event Epping Forest England dedicated by Queen Victoria 1875 Event Lotta's Fountain (Kearny and Market) dedicated 1874 Birthday Oswald Chambers born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning 1864 Event 1st U.S. Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore 1838 Event Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Massachusetts 1836 Event 1st Mormon temple dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio 1829 Event 1st stone arch railroad bridge in U.S. dedicated, Baltimore 1821 Event Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, 1st U.S. Catholic cathedral, is dedicated in Baltimore 1817 Event 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn 1800 Event Zion AME Church dedicated (New York City) 1794 Event African Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated 1763 Event Touro shul of Newport RI dedicated (oldest existing U.S. synagogue)
