2014 Event Hewlett-Packard (HP) plans to split into two companies: HP Enterprise, focused on enterprise products and services, and HP Inc., focused on printing and personal computing; the move will be completed in 2015 2014 Event Dubai International Airport beat London Heathrow Airport in the first quarter of this year as the world's busiest international airport; Dubai Airport hopes to retain this position after a series of expansion projects are completed 2014 Event A long-delayed review of the Keystone XL Pipeline is completed by the U.S. State Department; it concluded the pipeline would not significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions 2013 Event Researchers in Vietnam completed a two-year project to use nanotechnology to produce Nano Curcumin, a substance that can help treat cancer; the substance Curcumin has a low absorption rate and does not dissolve well in water 2013 Event The Organization on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons reports it has completed the inspection of 21 out of 23 chemical weapons sites across Syria, resulting in the destruction of over 1,000 metric tons of toxic agents and munitions 2013 Event A railway under the sea, first proposed by Ottoman Sultan Abdulmejid 150 years ago is completed; the sea tunnel, connecting Europe and Asia is the deepest submerged railway tunnel of its kind in the world 2013 Event The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, completed his last shift as a search and rescue helicopter pilot in the Royal Air Force; he will now focus on Royal and community work 2013 Event In England, a man is arrested for charges related to the attack on 'The Hay Wain' painting, completed by artist John Constable in 1821; the work is considered one of England's greatest and most popular paintings 2012 Event The FBI claim to have completed it's investigation into the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya in one day 2012 Event The China Central Television Headquarters, designed by the Officer for Metropolitan Architecture, a firm based in Rotterdam ten years ago, is finally completed in Beijing 2010 Event Tibet's Galongla Tunnel, built at an altitude of 3,750 meters, is completed, linking Medog county to the outside world 2010 Event Swiebodzin, Poland announces the world's biggest statue of Jesus, called Christ the King, is completed 2007 Death Hans Wollschlager, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses, dies in Bamberg, Germany 2005 Event Qinghai-Tibet Railway is completed in China 1992 Event 1st subway car completed to be exported from U.S. (to Taiwan) 1990 Event Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years 1988 Event World's Largest Sausage completed at 13 miles long 1987 Event Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed 1984 Event Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed 1984 Event Cleveland Metroparks' Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails are completed 1984 Event Chicago White Sox beat Milw Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (completed 5/9) 1984 Event Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed 1982 Event Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18) 1981 Event 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed, Double Eagle V 1981 Event Longest game at Fenway Park completed in 20, Mariners-8, Red Sox-7 1977 Event Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed 1974 Event World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed 1974 Event Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975 1972 Event Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (completed 5/13) 1972 Event Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia 1970 Event NL offices begins move from Cincinnati to San Francisco (completed February 23) 1969 Event Neville Williams' "Chronology of the Expanding World" completed 1968 Event Beatles "White Album" completed 1968 Birthday Tony Hawk, professional skateboarder, completed the first 2.5-revolution aerial spin, the 900, licensed the 'Tony Hawk' videogame series 1968 Event Soyuz 4 and 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft 1965 Event 630 foot high Gateway Arch completed in St. Louis 1961 Event Construction on Berlin Wall completed 1960 Event 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed by Triton 1958 Event 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia 1958 Event 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days 1954 Event 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed 1952 Event Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed 1950 Event 1st major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5) 1947 Event 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed 1945 Event Ratification of United Nations Charter completed 1943 Event Burma railroad completed and opens 1943 Event World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed 1942 Event Alaska highway completed 1941 Event Mount Rushmore is completed 1938 Event Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland 1937 Event U.S. Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio 1936 Event 1st all-glass windowless structure in U.S. completed, Toledo, Ohio 1935 Event Boulder Dam completed 1935 Birthday Hans Wollschlager, born in Minden, Germany, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses 1933 Event 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans 1933 Event Dachau, 1st concentration camp, completed 1931 Event Cleveland Municipal Stadium is completed 1930 Event 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls 1930 Event 1st transcontinental glider tow completed 1930 Event 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed 1929 Event 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed 1929 Event 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca 1927 Event Construction of Spirit of St. Louis is completed 1923 Birthday 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 Event 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (New York - San Diego) completed 1914 Event Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed 1914 Event Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, San Francisco 1911 Event Lotschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed 1907 Event 1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa 1906 Event 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas 1905 Event Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed 1904 Event After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed 1903 Event 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed 1900 Event New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million 1896 Event 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!) 1895 Event U.S. Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan 1889 Event Universal Exposition opens in Paris, Eiffel Tower completed 1885 Event Canadian Pacific Railway completed at Craigellachie 1884 Event 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria 1882 Event 1st ocean pier in U.S. completed, Washington, D.C. 1880 Event Koln cathedral completed, 633 years after it begun 1880 Event Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed (began in 1248) 1880 Event Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland and Italy completed 1877 Event 1st telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii completed 1877 Event 1st cantilever bridge in U.S. completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky 1876 Event Southern Pacific line from LA to San Francisco completed 1870 Event Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado 1870 Event Brooklyn Bridge construction begins; completed May 24, 1883 1866 Event Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed 1861 Event 1st telegraph line linking West and East coasts completed 1861 Event Ft. Point completed and garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger) 1854 Event Marine Telegraph from Ft. Point to San Francisco completed 1834 Event 1st railroad tunnel in U.S. completed, in Pennsylvania (275 m long) 1825 Event 1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England 1820 Event Opera "Die Jagarsbraut" is completed 1800 Event White House completed and President and Mrs. John Adams move in 1773 Event 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH 1608 Event Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey 1457 Event Earliest dated book, "Mainz Psalter," completed
