1835- The Boston Carpenters Strike: 20,000 workers fight and succeed to have the work day shortened to 10hrs a day.
This Day in History
1899- Otis Barton, American designer of the bathysphere (a spherical deep-sea submersible) is born.
1783- the 1st public unmanned hot-air balloon flight.
1620- Construction begins on the oldest stone church in French North America (Notre-Dame-des-Anges) in Quebec, Canada.
1883- Lights are used in the first night baseball game in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1907- Inventor of the turbojet engine, Frank Whittle, is born.
1997- Traffic is able to cross from Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick for the first time using the Confederations Bridge in Eastern Canada.
1959- After 5 years of construction, the Auckland Harbour Bridge, an 8-lane steel bridge in New Zealand, opens.
2016- After approximately 3 years of construction, the world's largest passenger ship, the MS Harmony of the Seas, takes its maiden voyage.
1742- The world's first indoor swimming pool opens in London, England.