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2012 Event - The nearly finished One World Trade Center overtakes the Empire State Building as the tallest building in New York City

1991 Event - Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin

1991 Event - Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd

1973 Event - Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building finished

1967 Event - Highest tower to the world finished, 537m (U.S.S.R.)

1963 Birthday - Paul Way, born in Kingsbury, Middlesex, British golfer, won Brabazon Trophy, 1981, turned pro in 1982, won KLM Dutch Open while on the European Tour, second youngest Ryder Cup player in 1983, and 1985, finished in the top 100 in 1993, on the Order of Merit, after 1997, his participation in tournament golf waned

1962 Event - Borehole for Mont Blanc-tunnel finished

1962 Event - St. Bernard Tunnel finished, Swiss and Italian workers shake hands

1957 Event - Trans-Iranian oil pipe line finished

1952 Event - New Dutch bible translation finished

1946 Event - ENIAC, U.S. 1st computer finished by Mauchly/Eckert

1943 Event - Crematory III at Birkenau is finished

1937 Event - Pumping to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay is finished

1930 Event - Prohibition of Wieringermeer finished

1929 Event - Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished

1913 Event - Franz Kafka stops working on "Amerika"; it will never be finished

1864 Event - 640m long ponton bridge over James River Virginia finished

1808 Event - 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri

1584 Event - San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid finished

1514 Event - Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin finished

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