Brooklyn Bridge Opens: 14 Years to Build, 27 Workers Dead
The Brooklyn Bridge opened to a crowd of thousands as President Chester Arthur walked across the world's longest suspension bridge, a 1,595-foot span that connected Manhattan and Brooklyn for the first time by land. The 14-year construction project cost 27 lives, including designer John Roebling, but delivered an engineering marvel that carried 150,300 people on its opening day alone.
May 24, 1883
143 years ago
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احتراق معبد هوريو-جي بالكامل.
bataille de Blain, victoire des troupes bretonnes de Nominoë sur les troupes franques du roi de Francie occidentale Charles II dit le chauve petit-fils de Charl…
الحصول على الموافقة الإمبراطورية بكتابة كوكين واكاشو.
They caught him hunting when the messengers arrived. Henry the Fowler was setting bird traps in the Harz Mountains—literally fowling—when Saxon nobles found him…
élection du pape Victor III.
Der Babenberger Herzog Leopold V. von Österreich und sein Sohn Friedrich erhalten nach dem Tod des letzten Traungauers Ottokar IV. von Kaiser Heinrich VI. auf B…
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