1907- The first passenger train arrives at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station
This Day in History
2011- Boeing’s first airliner, the 787, is introduced
1861- Construction begins on the US iron-hulled steamship, the USS Monitor
1918- Designer of the Lippo Centre in Hong Kong, Paul Rudolph, is born in Kentucky.
2003- Last commercial flight of Concorde
1877- 207 miners are killed in an explosion at a mine in Blantyre, Scotland.
1833- Inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel, is born in Sweden.
1801- Designer of the Natural History Museum of Basel in Switzerland, Melchior Berri, is born.
1872- the world’s largest gold nugget is found in New South Wales
1997- Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao opens