1889- Amsterdam Central Station opens for the first time in the Netherlands.
This Day in History
1998- The Ekati Diamond Mine opens.
1792- Construction begins on the White House.
1931- The statue, Christ the Redeemer, built by engineers Heitor de Silva Costa and Albert Caquot, opens in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1956- Ground breaks for the construction of Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers, in Wisconsin.
1910 - the Grunwald Bridge, a suspension bridge, opens in Poland after approximately 2 years of construction.
1888 - The Washington Monument officially opens for the first time.
1933 - Coit Tower in California opens for the first time.
1826 - The first American chartered railway, Granite Railway, begins operations.
2000- the Świętokrzyski Bridge, a cable-stayed bridge in Warsaw, Poland, opens for the first time over the Vistula River.