1844- The vulcanization of rubber is patented by Charles Goodyear.
1952- Construction begins on the world’s first operational nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus.
2005- the Svinesund Bridge, a through arch bridge spanning 242 metres in Halden, Norway, opens.
1964- the Old Port Mann Bridge opens.
1764- United States’ oldest working lighthouse, Sandy Hook Light, opens in New Jersey.
1981- 800 people are killed when a passenger train plunges into the Bagmati River in India.
2003- Construction begins on the Hangzhou Bay Bridge.
1835- The Boston Carpenters Strike: 20,000 workers fight and succeed to have the work day shortened to 10hrs a day.
1899- Otis Barton, American designer of the bathysphere (a spherical deep-sea submersible) is born.
1783- the 1st public unmanned hot-air balloon flight.