1937- Czech architect, and designer of the Selfridges Building in England, Jan Kaplicky, is born.
This Day in History
1964- The Ford Mustang is first introduced
1907- Canadian inventor of the snowmobile, Joseph-Armand Bombarbier, is born
1972- the N Seoul Tower, a 236-meter-tall communicational and observational tower, opens in South Korea.
1909- the Anglo-Persian Oil Company is formed in London
1749- the Radcliffe Camera, an Oxford University building, designed in the neo-classical architectural style, opens.
1937-Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft at Rugby, England.
1942- Construction begins on the Alaska Highway
1930- Synthetic rubber is first produced.
1896- Construction begins on the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge in Niagara Falls, U.S.A.