1899- A patent is issued to Albert Marshall for the household refrigeration device.
This Day in History
1904- A locomotive derails in Colorado and falls into a creek, resulting in 96 causalities.
1927- Union Station in Toronto opens for the first time
1884- The cornerstone for Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe’s Island.
1902- The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
1997- After three years of construction, the Sky Tower in Auckland, New Zealand opens.
1791- The nail-making machine is patented.
1900- The White Pass & Yukon Route opens
1959- the Gdanski Bridge, a steel truss bridge built across the Vistula River in Warsaw, Poland, opens
1991- Construction begins the futuristic-styled Oriental Peal Tower in Shanghai, China