Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah Bridge opened
The Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah Bridge, also known as the Penang Second Bridge is a dual carriageway toll bridge in Penang, Malaysia. It connects Bandar Cassia (Batu Kawan) in Seberang Perai on mainland Peninsular Malaysia with Batu Maung on Penang Island. It is the second bridge to link the island to the mainland after the first Penang Bridge. The total length of the bridge is 24 km (15 mi) with length over water at 16.9 km (10.5 mi), making it the longest bridge in Malaysia and the second longest in Southeast Asia.
Husutong Yangtze River Bridge construction started
The Husutong Yangtze River Bridge is a combined rail and road bridge which crosses the Yangtze River in Jiangsu, China. It is the easternmost railway crossing of the Yangtze river. On its upper level, it carries a six-lane highway. On its lower level it carries four railway tracks with a design speed of 200 km/h. The main cable-stayed span is 1,092 metres (3,583 ft) long and is supported by two 330 metres (1,080 ft) tall towers. The secondary arch span is 336 metres (1,102 ft) long.
Petronas Towers construction started
Located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Petronas Towers are a pair of 88-storey supertall skyscrapers. They stand at 451.9 metres (1,483 feet), height that made them the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004. Their structural system is a tube in tube design, invented by architect Fazlur Rahman Khan.
Beijing Capital International Airport opened
Beijing Capital International Airport is one of two international airports serving Beijing, the other one being Beijing Daxing International Airport. It is located 32 km (20 mi) northeast of Beijing's city center, in an exclave of Chaoyang District and the surroundings of that exclave in suburban Shunyi District. Beijing Capital has rapidly ascended in rankings of the world's busiest airports in the past decade. It overtook Tokyo-Haneda Airport as the busiest airport in Asia in terms of passenger traffic and total traffic movements in 2009, and was the world's second busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic, behind Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, from 2010 to 2019.
1910 Wellington avalanche
Wellington (later known as Tye) was a small unincorporated railroad community in the northwest United States, on the Great Northern Railway in northeastern King County, Washington. The Wellington avalanche was the deadliest avalanche in the history of the United States, marked by the total death count of 96. Just after 1 a.m. on March 1, as a result of a lightning strike, a slab of snow broke loose from the side of Windy Mountain during a thunderstorm. A ten-foot high mass of snow, half a mile long and a quarter of a mile wide, fell toward the town. A forest fire had recently ravaged the slopes above the town, leaving very little to impede the avalanche.
