2003- 60% of London’s underground rail network is halted when an electricity blackout occurs.
This Day in History
1997- Construction begins at the Shanghai World Financial Center.
1895- Electric generator first produces power at Niagara Falls.
1919- The world’s first scheduled passenger service by plane.
1909- Concrete is poured for Panama Canal.
1873- After approximately 3 years of construction, the Albert Bridge opens in London.
1967- the Tjeldsund Bridge, a suspension bridge that crosses the Tjeldsundet strait in Norway, opens.
1754- Inventor of gas lighting, William Murdoch, is born in Scotland.
1923- London dock strike ends.
1871- American engineer, Orville Wright, is born in Ohio.