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Design
2004 Max Faget, engineer, led the design of the Gemini space capsule, dies at 83

1991 IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1981 Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial

1969 Walter Gropius, architect/found (Bauhaus school of design), dies at 86

1965 Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict present-day

1960 Helen Rees, director, Design Museum

1946 Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show

1935 Royal Proclamation sets design of Canada's new Jubilee Silver Dollar

1933 Noel Coward's "Design for Living," premieres in New York City

1931 1st rocket-powered aircraft design patented, Robert Goddard

1914 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted, Dr. Robert Goddard

1883 Walter Gropius, Berlin Germany, architect, Bauhaus school of design

1869 Albert Kahn, architect, originated modern factory design

1865 Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag"

1848 Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding design/painter, Rue de Paris

1772 William Congreve, English officer, design fire rocket

1737 Francis Hopkinson, U.S., writer/lawyer, design Stars and Stripes



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