1997- South Africa announces that it is building the world’s largest modern day blimp.
1973- Gold is a record $95/ounce in London.
1978- the Istiqlal Mosque, one of the largest mosques in Asia, opens.
1804- the world’s first locomotive runs for the first time in Wales.
1877- The first cantilever bridge in the United States is completed in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
1969- first test flight of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.
1901- the Alexandra Bridge, a steel truss cantilever bridge opens over the Ottawa River in Ottawa, Canada.
1817- Gas is used for the first time to light a city in the United States (Baltimore).
1881- The Canadian Pacific Railway Company is incorporated.
1898- the USS Maine sinks, as a result 258 sailors die.