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2012 Event - In China, violent rainfalls and flooding in the Hunan Province destroy a bridge and 3,500 homes, causing Pinhjiang County to evacuate 28,000 people

2012 Event - Progress is made on the U.K. and European Union's tallest building when the spire of the Shard London Bridge is put in place

2011 Event - Over 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested when they swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic

2011 Event - Nintendo's new video game system, the Wii U is introduced; it has a touch-screen display designed as a bridge between portable and tablet-based games and console video games

2000 Death - Sir Alec Guinness, actor, Bridge on the River Kwai, dies at 86

1998 Event - "View From the Bridge," closes at Criterion Theater New York City

1997 Event - "View From the Bridge," opens at Criterion Theater New York City

1996 Event - Metropolitan Transportation Authority raises New York City bridge tolls to $3.50 each way

1996 Death - John Terence Reese, bridge master, dies at 82

1995 Event - Lara completes 6th Test Cricket century, 152 at Trent Bridge

1995 Death - Giorgio Belladonna, bridge champion, dies at 71

1994 Event - Hana bridge is Seoul Korea crashes, 32+ die

1994 Death - Lili Damita, wife of Errol Flynn (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies at 89

1994 Event - Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge

1993 Event - Boon completes 16th Test Cricket century, 101 at Trent Bridge

1992 Death - Mary Smithuysen, Dutch dancer/actress (Bridge Too Far), dies

1992 Death - Feliks Arons, Dutch director/actor (A Bridge Too Far), dies at 48

1992 Death - Easley Blackwood, expert bridge player, dies at 89

1991 Event - George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00

1989 Event - Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge

1986 Event - Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of North Carolina State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself

1985 Event - War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"

1984 Death - Oswald Jacoby, U.S. contract bridge champion, dies at 81

1983 Event - Bridge section along I-95 in Greenwich, Ct collapsed kills 3

1982 Death - Herman W. Filarski, Dutch bridge journalist, dies at 69

1982 Event - Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into 14th St. Bridge in Washington, D.C., and falls into Potomac River, killing 78

1982 Event - Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm

1981 Event - Humbar Estuary Bridge, U.K., world's longest span, 1.4 km, opens

1981 Event - Prince Willem Alexander opens Willems Bridge in Rotterdam

1981 Event - Test cricket debut of Terry Alderman, vs. England at Trent Bridge

1980 Event - 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge

1979 Event - Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm

1977 Event - Test Cricket debut of Ian Botham vs. Australia Trent Bridge, 5-74 1st innings

1977 Birthday - Danny Gerard, Mount Vernon, New York, actor, Alan Silver-Brooklyn Bridge

1976 Event - Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur

1976 Event - Liverpool wins 5th UEFA Cup at Bridge

1975 Death - Thornton N Wilder, U.S. writer (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies at 78

1975 Event - Worst motor vehicle disaster in U.K.; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38

1975 Death - Ivo Andric, writer, novelist, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote 'Bosnian Chronicle', 'The Bridge on the Drina', dies in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, at age 82

1975 Event - 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent and Hobart, Tasmania and ship sinks

1974 Event - Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal)

1974 Death - Cornelius Ryan, war reporter/historian (Bridge too Far), dies at 54

1973 Event - Close finish at Trent Bridge, New Zealand Cricket need 479 to win, all out 440

1973 Event - Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge

1971 Event - Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure

1971 Birthday - Josh Charles, actor, Crossing the Bridge, Cooperstown

1971 Event - Golden Gate Bridge paid for

1971 Event - 13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win

1970 Event - Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35

1970 Event - Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado

1970 Event - Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge

1969 Birthday - Robert Sean Leonard, New Jersey, actor, Dead Poets Society, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge

1968 Event - Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars

1968 Event - London Bridge is sold to U.S. oil company to be erected in Arizona

1968 Event - Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River New York

1967 Event - Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hour, 34 die

1967 Event - Bridge at Annabaai crashes on Willemstad, Curaeao, kills 15

1967 Death - Wilmer King, 1st casuality on Tappan Zee Bridge NY, dies

1966 Event - Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe)

1966 Event - Test cricket debut of Derek Underwood, vs. WI Trent Bridge, wicketless

1965 Event - Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde

1965 Event - Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam

1964 Event - World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (New York City)

1964 Event - Longest bridge in Europe opens (Scottish 4th Road Bridge)

1964 Event - Test Cricket debut of Geoff Boycott vs. Australia at Trent Bridge, 48

1964 Event - Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (world's longest)

1963 Event - At 4 AM, traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck

1963 Event - Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle and Bellevue opens

1960 Event - 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil

1958 Event - 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia

1958 Event - Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated

1958 Event - 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai," Woodward and Guinness win

1957 Death - Alan Bridge, actor (Hail the Conquering Hero), dies at 66

1957 Event - World longest suspension bridge opens in Mackinac Straits, Michigan

1957 Event - Tom Graveney scores 258 vs. West Indies at Trent Bridge

1956 Event - Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India)

1955 Event - Tappan Zee Bridge in New York opens to traffic

1955 Event - Arthur Millers "View From The Bridge," premieres in New York City

1955 Event - Test Cricket debut of Ken Barrington, vs. South Africa, Trent Bridge

1953 Event - Test Cricket debut of Alan Davidson at Trent Bridge

1951 Event - Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds

1950 Event - U.S. win 1st world championship bridge contest

1950 Event - Frank Worrell completes 261 vs. England at Trent Bridge

1949 Event - American Contract Bridge League votes 58 % to keep blacks out

1949 Birthday - Billy Joel, Bronx, rock vocalist, Pianoman, Captain Jack, Bridge

1948 Event - Bradman scores 138 in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge

1948 Event - Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River

1948 Birthday - Tony DeMeur, rocker, Fabulous Poodles-Anna Rexia, Suicide Bridge

1945 Event - Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine

1944 Event - U.S. 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar

1944 Event - Last British paratroopers at bridge of Arnhem surrenders

1944 Event - Lieutenant-general Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far"

1944 Event - Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River New Jersey, killing 16

1941 Death - Frank Bridge, English violinist and composer (Sea), dies at 61

1940 Event - Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Wash

1940 Event - Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge dedicated

1939 Birthday - Johnny Maestro, New York rock vocalist, Crests-16 Candles, Brooklyn Bridge

1939 Event - Whitestone Bridge connecting Bronx and Queens opens

1938 Event - Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle, begins

1938 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting U.S. and Canada

1938 Event - Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge

1938 Event - Great Cricket innings of 232 by Stan McCabe vs. England at Trent Bridge

1938 Event - England declare at 8 for 658 vs. Australia at Trent Bridge

1938 Event - Charlie Barnett makes 98 by lunch vs. Australia at Trent Bridge

1938 Birthday - Marlies van Alcmaer, Smal, Dutch actress/director, Bridge too Far

1937 Event - Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China

1937 Event - Japanese and Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), becomes WW II

1937 Event - Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opens to vehicular traffic

1937 Event - Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, dedicated

1937 Event - San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens

1936 Event - Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined

1936 Event - Oakland Bay Bridge opens

1936 Event - Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx and Queens opens

1936 Event - Dutch queen Wilhelmina opens the Waal bridge

1933 Event - Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge

1933 Event - University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic

1933 Event - Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field

1933 Event - Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side

1932 Death - Harold "Heart" Crane, U.S. poet (Bridge), commits suicide at 32

1931 Event - George Washington Bridge connecting New York to New Jersey opens

1931 Birthday - Lord Michael Mustill, of Pateley Bridge, Lord Justice of Appeal

1931 Birthday - Siem Vroom, Dutch actor, The Lift, Bridge Too Far, Mysteries

1931 Event - Congress allows California to build Oakland-Bay Bridge

1930 Event - 1st International bridge match is held in London. U.S. team defeats England

1930 Event - Bradman scores 131 in the 1st Test cricket at Trent Bridge

1928 Birthday - Marion Ross, Albert Lea, Minnesota, actress, Marion-Happy Days, Brooklyn Bridge

1928 Event - Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey)

1927 Event - Peace Bridge between U.S. and Canada dedicated

1927 Event - Peace Bridge between U.S. and Canada opens

1924 Death - John Frederick Bridge, composer, dies at 79

1923 Birthday - Giorgio Belladonna, bridge champion

1921 Birthday - Malcolm Arnold, Northampton England, composer, Bridge over River Kwai

1918 Birthday - William Holden, born in Illinois, actor, Stalag 17, Bridge Over River Kwai, SOB

1917 Birthday - James Donald, Aberdeen Scotland, actor, Bridge on River Kwai, Vikings

1914 Event - 1st U.S. duplicate auction bridge championship held, Lake Placid, New York

1914 Birthday - Alec Guinness, born in London, England, British actor, Bridge on River Kwai

1913 Birthday - John Terence Reese, bridge master

1912 Birthday - Herman W. Filarski, Dutch bridge journalist

1910 Birthday - Albertus "Bert" Botterman, actor, Bridge Too Far

1909 Event - Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens

1907 Birthday - Mae Clarke, Klotz, Philadelphia, actress, Frankenstein, Waterloo Bridge

1906 Birthday - Eduard Ludwig, German architect, Air Bridge monument Berlin

1906 Event - Bridge in St. Lawrence Canada caves in; 70 die

1904 Event - Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colorado during a flash flood, kills 96

1903 Event - Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn and Manhattan

1901 Birthday - Sam Spiegel, producer, On the Waterfront, Bridge over River Kwai

1901 Birthday - Charles H. Goren, bridge master, 26 U.S. Titles

1900 Event - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Problem of Thor Bridge"

1899 Birthday - Hart Crane, U.S., poet, Bridge

1896 Birthday - Andre Cheron, French chess/bridge theorist

1895 Event - 1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago

1894 Event - London Tower Bridge opens

1892 Birthday - Ivo Andric, born in Dolac, Bosnia, writer, novelist, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote 'Bosnian Chronicle', 'The Bridge on the Drina'

1891 Birthday - Alan Bridge, Pennsylvania, actor, North of Arizona, Badmen of the Hills

1890 Birthday - Sessue Hayakawa, born in Japan, actor, Bridge on River Kwai, Hell to Eternity

1886 Event - Steve Brodie supposedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge

1886 Birthday - David Steinman, New York City, bridge designer, Hudson, Triborough

1885 Event - Sarah Ann Henley survives 76-m jump from Clifton Bridge, Avon, Engl

1884 Birthday - Harold Vanderbilt, New York, America Cup, 1930,34,37, invented contract bridge

1883 Event - International cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls

1883 Event - Rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse caused a stampede that kills 12

1883 Event - Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur and Governor Cleveland

1881 Birthday - Max Pechstein, German "entartet" painter/graphic artist, The Bridge

1881 Event - 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico

1879 Event - North British Railway's train falls as Firth bridge collapses (Scot)

1879 Birthday - Frank Bridge, English violinist, composer and conductor /tutor of B Britten

1877 Event - 1st cantilever bridge in U.S. completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky

1876 Birthday - Maria Ouspenskaya, Tula Russia, actress, Waterloo Bridge

1873 Event - Albert Bridge creossing Thames opens

1871 Event - Railway bridge over Dutch Deep opens

1870 Birthday - Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer/builder, Golden Gate Bridge

1870 Event - Brooklyn Bridge construction begins; completed May 24, 1883

1870 Event - Construction of Brooklyn Bridge begins

1865 Event - Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida

1864 Event - 640m long ponton bridge over James River Virginia finished

1864 Event - Captain Mendell begins building 640m long ponton bridge over James River, Virginia

1864 Event - Battle of Kellar's Bridge Kentucky, Licking River

1864 Event - Battle of Yellow Tavern, Virginia (Sheridan's Raid, South Anna Bridge)

1864 Event - Actions at Stony Creek/Nottoway bridge Virginia (Drewry's Bluff)

1864 Event - Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi

1863 Event - Battle of Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi

1862 Event - Skirmish at Davis' Bridge, Tennessee

1862 Event - Battle at Turkey Bridge Virginia: Confederate assault attack

1862 Event - Day 2 of 7 Days-Battle of Mechanicsville Virginia (Meadow Bridge)

1862 Event - Westminster Bridge across Thames opens

1855 Event - 1st train crosses Mississippi River's 1st bridge, Rock Island, Illinois to Davenport Iowa

1855 Event - 1st train crosses 1st U.S. railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls

1847 Birthday - Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theologist/bishop of Bridge

1844 Birthday - John Frederick Bridge, composer

1842 Event - 1st U.S. wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn

1831 Event - London Bridge opens to traffic

1829 Event - 1st stone arch railroad bridge in U.S. dedicated, Baltimore

1829 Birthday - Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author, Blood to Bridge

1796 Event - Napoleon defeats Austria in Battle of Lodi Bridge

1716 Event - 1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea)

1708 Event - Great Alliance captures Bridge

1679 Event - Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scottish

1660 Birthday - Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building

1654 Event - Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals

1626 Event - Battle at the Dessauer bridge: Monarch Albrecht von Wallenstein beats Earl of Mansfeld

1297 Event - Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel Wm Wallace beats English

1066 Event - Battle of Stampford Bridge King Harold Godwinson II of England, beaten by his brother King Harold Hardrada of Norway

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