Nagpur Metro opened
Nagpur Metro is a rapid transit system for the city of Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. Phase I of the metro project cost was estimated to cost 8,650 crore Indian rupees (equivalent to 140 billion Indian rupees or US$1.7 billion in 2023) but the final project cost incurred was 9,279 crore Indian rupees (US$1.2 billion). Nagpur Metro became the 13th Metro system in India to be operational. It is also being touted as the greenest metro rail in India.
Marc Basnight Bridge construction started
Marc Basnight Bridge is a 2.8-mile-long bridge that cost $252 million. The bridge received the Deep Foundation Institute's Outstanding Project Award in 2019 due to the bridge's innovative foundation, designed to withstand extreme bridge scour.
Charles de Gaulle Airport opened
Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, also known as Roissy Airport or simply Paris CDG, is the main international airport serving Paris, France. Opened in 1974, it is in Roissy-en-France, 23 km (14 mi) northeast of Paris and is named after World War II statesman Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), whose initials (CDG) are used as its IATA airport code. In 2022, the airport handled 57,474,033 passengers and 34,657 aircraft movements, thus making it the world's ninth busiest airport and Europe's third busiest airport (after Istanbul and Heathrow) in terms of passenger numbers. Charles de Gaulle is also the busiest airport within the European Union.
Castle Gate Mine disaster
The Castle Gate mine disaster occurred on March 8, 1924, in a coal mine near the town of Castle Gate, Utah (now dismantled), located approximately 90 miles (140 km) southeast of Salt Lake City. All of the 171 men working in the mine were killed in the series of three violent explosions. One worker, the leader of the rescue crew, died from carbon monoxide inhalation while attempting to reach the victims shortly after the explosion. The explosions were determined to have been caused by a failure to properly dampen coal dust in the mine during the previous shift.
James Buchanan Eads died
American civil engineer and inventor James Buchanan Eads was the first U.S. citizen awarded the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of the Arts. He holded more than 50 patents. Eads designed and built the first road and rail bridge to cross the Mississippi River at St. Louis, which was the longest arch bridge in the world when completed.
