1698- Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
1955- First legislation concerning automobile seatbelts.
1870- the 1st part of the Atlantic City Boardwalk opens in New Jersey.
1894- The American Railway Union goes on strike.
1834- The reaping machine is patented by Cyrus Hall McCormick.
2002- 111 miners are killed when a gas explosion occurs in the Chengzihe coal mine in northeast China.
2011- the Basarab Overpass, a cable-stayed bridge, opens in Bucharest, Romania.
2011- Oil is $93/barrel.
1796- Construction begins on the Chirk Aqueduct on the England-Wales border.
1952- Construction begins on the British Yacht, the HMY Brittania.