1913- 263 are killed in New Mexico when an explosion occurs at a coal mine.
This Day in History
2004- Construction started on the Burj Khalifa.
2011- the Myllysilta, a steel girder bridge, opens in Turku, Finland.
1793- Construction begins on the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
1908- Designer of the St. Vartan Cathedral in NYC, Rafael Israelyan, is born.
1966- The Metropolitan Opera House, in New York City, opens for the first time.
1584- San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is completed.
1937- Italian architect-engineer Renzo Piano is born.
1997- After 1.5 years of construction, the FedExField in Landover, Maryland, home of the Washington Redskins, opens.
1905- The Victoria Falls Bridge opens over the Zambezi River in Zimbabwe.