1960- the Oil pipeline from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens.
This Day in History
1907- Royal Oil & Shell merge to form BP (British Petroleum)
1728, John Wood, the Younger, English architect and designer of England’s Royal Crescent, is born.
2010- 13 miners are killed after a coal mine collapses due to a methane gas explosion in Turkey.
1912- the 1st airplane flies over 100mph.
1922- Italian airship, Roma, crashes in Virgina, 34 die.
1872- Cyrus Baldwin patents the Hydraulic electric elevator
1967- Construction began on the Calgary Tower, a $3.5-million-dollar project in Alberta, Canada.
1745- Inventor of the battery, Alessandro Volta, is born.
1911- the world’s first electric self-starter is installed in a Cadillac.