1895- The 1st US patent is granted for a gasoline driven car.
This Day in History
1948- Five people are killed when a fire breaks out at a coal mine in KItzmiller, Maryland.
1871- The Yaquina Bay Light, a 51-foot lighthouse in Yaquina Bay (near San Francisco), opens.
1972- Construction begins on the Kingdome, Seattle
1864- Railway bridge, the Albert Edward Bridge, opens in England.
1950- Dame Zaha Hadid, the first Arab woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, is born.
1894- The time clock is patented.
2013- The first phase of the Marmaray Tunnel opens
1965- The Gateway Arch is completed.
1854- A passenger train and a 15-car grave train collide in Ontario, Canada, killing 52 and injuring 48.