1913- 439 miners were killed in a coal dust explosion at the Senghenydd Colliery in Wales.
This Day in History
1785- Construction begins on the Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany.
1945- the Paso de Los Libres- Uruguaiana International Bridge, a rail and road bridge, opens, connecting Brazil and Argentina.
2006- the 91-floor Eureka Tower in Australia opens after 4 years of construction.
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.
1882- Inventor of the first liquid-fueled rocket, Robert Goddard, is born in Massachusetts.