1900- Last spike driven through White Pass & Yukon Railway in Northern Canada.
This Day in History
1951- Architect/Engineer Santiago Calatrava (designer of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex) is born in Spain.
1946- Aloha Airlines begins service from the Honolulu Airport.
1850- Gold is first discovered in Oregon.
1996- Ground breaks on the M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, home of the Baltimore Ravens.
1977- the high-level hollow box girder bridge, Itchen Bridge, opens for the first time in England.
1878- Ontario Agricultural College founded
1856- Serbian American electrical and mechanical engineer, Nikola Tesla, is born.
1865- Union Pacific rails are first laid in Omaha, Nebraska
1933- Ground broke on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge