The Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago) was completed
The Trump International Hotel and Tower is a skyscraper condo-hotel in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The building, named for Donald Trump, was designed by architect Adrian Smith of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Bovis Lend Lease built the 100-story structure, which reaches a height of 1,388 feet (423.2 m) including its spire, its roof topping out at 1,171 feet (357 m).
The Astrodome broke ground
The Astrodome stadium is the world's first multi-purpose, domed sports stadium, located in Houston, Texas, USA.
1920 Xalapa earthquake
The 1920 Xalapa earthquake was the deadliest in Mexico's history prior to 1985 - killing at least 648 people. Mudflows and landslides triggered by the shock destroyed buildings in rural towns across the states of Veracruz and Puebla, causing most of the deaths. The earthquake was attributed to a shallow fault in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. It measured moment magnitude 6.3-6.4 and had a hypocenter depth of less than 15 km (9.3 mi). Severely damaged towns including Xalapa were rebuilt, while others had to be abandoned. The earthquake's aftershocks were studied by scientists to determine its seismological characteristics.
Grenville M. Dodge died
Grenville Mellen Dodge was an American Civil Engineer and Union Army officer during the Civil War. He was involved in constructing, engineering and surveying more than 60,000 miles of railroads, including the Texas & Pacific, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and the Fort Worth & Denver City.
1911 Kebin earthquake
The 1911 Kebin earthquake, or Chon-Kemin earthquake, struck Russian Turkestan on 3 January. Registering at a moment magnitude of 8.0, it killed 452 people, destroyed more than 770 buildings (which was almost all of the city) in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and resulted in 125 miles (201 km) of surface faulting in the valleys of Chon-Kemin, Chilik and Chon-Aksu.
Henry Darcy died
Henry Philibert Gaspard Darcy was a French engineer who made several important contributions to hydraulics, including Darcy's law for flow in porous media.
