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2012 Event - The FBI claim to have completed it's investigation into the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya in one day

2012 Event - The China Central Television Headquarters, designed by the Officer for Metropolitan Architecture, a firm based in Rotterdam ten years ago, is finally completed in Beijing

2010 Event - Tibet's Galongla Tunnel, built at an altitude of 3,750 meters, is completed, linking Medog county to the outside world

2010 Event - Swiebodzin, Poland announces the world's biggest statue of Jesus, called Christ the King, is completed

2007 Death - Hans Wollschlager, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses, dies in Bamberg, Germany

2005 Event - Qinghai-Tibet Railway is completed in China

1992 Event - 1st subway car completed to be exported from U.S. (to Taiwan)

1990 Event - Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years

1988 Event - World's Largest Sausage completed at 13 miles long

1987 Event - Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed

1984 Event - Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed

1984 Event - Cleveland Metroparks' Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails are completed

1984 Event - Chicago White Sox beat Milw Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (completed 5/9)

1984 Event - Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed

1982 Event - Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18)

1981 Event - 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed, Double Eagle V

1981 Event - Longest game at Fenway Park completed in 20, Mariners-8, Red Sox-7

1977 Event - Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed

1974 Event - World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed

1974 Event - Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975

1972 Event - Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (completed 5/13)

1972 Event - Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia

1970 Event - NL offices begins move from Cincinnati to San Francisco (completed February 23)

1969 Event - Neville Williams' "Chronology of the Expanding World" completed

1968 Event - Beatles "White Album" completed

1968 Birthday - Tony Hawk, professional skateboarder, completed the first 2.5-revolution aerial spin, the 900, licensed the 'Tony Hawk' videogame series

1968 Event - Soyuz 4 and 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft

1965 Event - 630 foot high Gateway Arch completed in St. Louis

1961 Event - Construction on Berlin Wall completed

1960 Event - 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed by Triton

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

1958 Event - 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days

1954 Event - 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed

1952 Event - Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed

1950 Event - 1st major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5)

1947 Event - 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed

1945 Event - Ratification of United Nations Charter completed

1943 Event - Burma railroad completed and opens

1943 Event - World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed

1942 Event - Alaska highway completed

1941 Event - Mount Rushmore is completed

1938 Event - Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland

1937 Event - U.S. Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio

1936 Event - 1st all-glass windowless structure in U.S. completed, Toledo, Ohio

1935 Event - Boulder Dam completed

1935 Birthday - Hans Wollschlager, born in Minden, Germany, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses

1933 Event - 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans

1933 Event - Dachau, 1st concentration camp, completed

1931 Event - Cleveland Municipal Stadium is completed

1930 Event - 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls

1930 Event - 1st transcontinental glider tow completed

1930 Event - 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed

1929 Event - 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed

1929 Event - 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca

1927 Event - Construction of Spirit of St. Louis is completed

1923 Birthday - Dika Newlin, born in Portland, Oregon, composer, child prodigy, began composing music at age 7, completed high school at 12, studied with Schoenberg at University of California at Los Angeles

1923 Event - 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (New York - San Diego) completed

1914 Event - Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed

1914 Event - Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, San Francisco

1911 Event - Lotschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed

1907 Event - 1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa

1906 Event - 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas

1905 Event - Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed

1904 Event - After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed

1903 Event - 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed

1900 Event - New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million

1896 Event - 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!)

1895 Event - U.S. Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan

1889 Event - Universal Exposition opens in Paris, Eiffel Tower completed

1885 Event - Canadian Pacific Railway completed at Craigellachie

1884 Event - 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria

1882 Event - 1st ocean pier in U.S. completed, Washington, D.C.

1880 Event - Koln cathedral completed, 633 years after it begun

1880 Event - Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed (began in 1248)

1880 Event - Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland and Italy completed

1877 Event - 1st telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii completed

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

1876 Event - Southern Pacific line from LA to San Francisco completed

1870 Event - Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado

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

1866 Event - Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed

1861 Event - 1st telegraph line linking West and East coasts completed

1861 Event - Ft. Point completed and garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)

1854 Event - Marine Telegraph from Ft. Point to San Francisco completed

1834 Event - 1st railroad tunnel in U.S. completed, in Pennsylvania (275 m long)

1825 Event - 1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England

1820 Event - Opera "Die Jagarsbraut" is completed

1800 Event - White House completed and President and Mrs. John Adams move in

1773 Event - 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH

1608 Event - Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey

1457 Event - Earliest dated book, "Mainz Psalter," completed

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