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2001 Terrorists break into parliament building in New Delhi, murder at least 12
2000 Frank Wills, often unemployed security guard, he the Democratic National Committee office in the Watergate Building had been burgled in June 1972, dies at 52 1997 An abandoned building collapses on New York's 42nd St, no one hurt 1997 Ali Abu Kamal opens fire in Empire State Building and kills 1 1995 Truck bomb at Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168 1995 Willem N "Pim" Koot, pianist (Concert Building), dies at 76 1994 Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose, California, 1 dead 1993 Red Tom Browning decides to watch his team play at Wrigley Field from the roof of a building across Sheffield Ave, he is fined $500 1993 2nd tallest building in world, New York City World Trade Center bombed, 7 die 1992 Last building in Gateway area in Cleveland is demolished 1991 Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building), dies at 90 1990 New York City's Empire State Building catches fire - no fatalities 1990 Mary Victor Bruce, who flew around empire state building in 1930, dies 1988 Royal Concert building in Amsterdam reopens 1985 Bomb attacks in NATO/AEG-Telefunken building in Brussels 1983 12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut 1982 Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building 1981 Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Building, 10m 1980 Columbia mated to SRBs and external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building 1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos and police stormed the building 1979 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate and Cat Building is dedicated 1978 Sun Bank Building opens 1978 Governor Askew dedicates RCUC solar office building 1977 5 die as New York Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am building in New York City 1974 Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in New York City (110 stories) 1973 Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building finished 1970 Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam 1970 Building begins of Amsterdam metro 1970 Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway 1968 Students seize administration building at Ohio State 1968 Students seize building at Bowie State College 1968 Howard University students seize administration building 1967 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College 1967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University 1966 Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in U.S.S.R. 1965 London's Post Office Tower opens, tallest building in England 1965 U.S.S.R. and Persia sign dam building and economic aid pact 1964 Ringo forms Brikley Building Company Ltd 1964 Pierre Monteux, French/U.S. conductor, Concert Building Orchestra, dies at 89 1964 France and Great Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel 1963 C and A Building in Amsterdam burns down 1961 Building of Berlin Wall begins 1961 Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building in Amsterdam 1960 French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons 1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins 1959 Citizens of Deerfield, Illinois block building of interracial housing 1959 U.S.S.R. and Egypt sign contracts for building Aswan Dam 1959 U.S.S.R. and Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor 1957 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM) 1956 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Francisco 1956 Pachyderm Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens 1955 Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins 1953 Fokker begins building F-27 Fokker Friendship 1952 Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base 1950 Bird Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated 1950 Eliel Saarinen, Fins/US architect (Chicago Trib building), dies at 76 1950 President Truman approves building of hydrogen bomb 1949 Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses 1948 Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed 1946 Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building and burying 38 1945 Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building 1945 U.S. Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Building, 14 die 1945 ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam 1945 Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin 1943 World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed 1941 Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp 1941 Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid 1941 IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1940 Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands 1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice 1936 Empire State Building emanates high definition TV-343 lines 1936 Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game) 1935 Huey P Long, (Sen-La) assassinated at Baton Rouge Capitol building 1934 Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp 1933 Adolf Loos, Austria architect (building of houses), dies at 62 1933 Nazis set fire to German parliament building, Reichstag, blame it on Communists 1931 Cornerstones laid for Opera House and Veteran's Building 1931 Blimp is moored to Empire State Building (New York City) 1931 Empire State Building opens in New York City 1930 Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium 1930 1st U.S. indoor glider flight, St. Louis Terminal Building 1929 New York City Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building 1929 President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam, Hoover Dam 1928 KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet 1928 1st U.S. air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio 1926 Building of Olympian Stadium Amsterdam, begins 1924 Louis H Sullivan, architect (Wainwright building St. Louis), dies at 67 1922 Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium 1922 Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam 1918 Willem N "Pim" Koot, pianist of Concert building, Oh, Lady! Lady! 1916 Norman Griggs, Vice President, Building Society Association 1914 New York Post Office Building opens to public 1911 New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft 1910 Eero Saarinen, Finnish/U.S. architect, IBM Building, MIT Chapel 1910 Herbert Ashworth, CEO, Nationwide Building Society 1909 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, New York City) 1909 Harry B. Helmsley, born in New York City, billionaire builder, Empire State Building 1908 Max Abramovitz, U.S. architect, Lincoln Center, United Nations Building 1906 Alexander Bodon, Hungarian/Dutch architect, RAI building 1906 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas 1904 New York City begins building Grand Central Station 1902 Murk Ozinga, Dutch building historian, Monuments of Curacao 1902 Building begins on Dutch public housing 1900 Oscar Nitzchke, German architect, Alcoa building/Centre Pompidou 1899 San Francisco City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building 1898 San Francisco Ferry Building at foot of Market St. opens 1880 Building of Panama Canal, begins 1873 Louis Zimmermann, violinist and 1st concert master of Concert building 1870 Adolf Loos, Austria architect, building of houses 1864 Captain Mendell begins building 640m long ponton bridge over James River, Virginia 1859 Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdams social alderman, building of houses 1850 Work starts on 1st brick building in San Francisco 1840 John Philip Holland, Liscannor Ireland, pioneer in submarine building 1835 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF) 1831 1st U.S. building and loan association organized, Frankford, Penn 1817 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn 1800 Congress held 1st session in Washington D.C. in incompleted Capitol building 1795 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky 1793 President Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building 1792 Cornerstone laid for 1st U.S. government building: U.S. Mint in Philadelphia 1759 William Thornton, architect, Capitol building, Washington D.C. 1718 Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switzerland; kills 53 1660 Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building 1655 Middelburg Netherlands forbids building of synagogue 122 Building begins on Hadrian's Wall |
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