Matt Baldwin died
Mathew Martyn Baldwin was a petroleum engineer. He and classmate George Knoll formed Baldwin and Knoll, a well servicing company that became Canada's largest service rig company for three decades. He was a founding director of Alberta Energy Company, serving for 25 years, and in 2000 named a member of the Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame.
The Changsha IFS Tower T1 was completed
The Changsha IFS Tower T1 is a skyscrapper in Changsha, Nunan, China. It stands 452 meters tall and the IFS in its name stands for "International Finance Square"
The Bahrain World Trade Center's wind turbines inaugurated
Located in Manama, Bahrain World Trade Center (also called Bahrain WTC or BWTC) is a 240-metre-high (787 ft), 50-floor, twin tower complex. The BWTC's wind turbines turned together for the first time in 2008, making it officially the world's first building with integrated wind turbines.
1946 Dominican Republic earthquake
The 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake occurred on August 4 at 17:51 UTC near Samana, Dominican Republic. The mainshock measured 7.8 on the moment magnitude scale and 8.1 on the surface wave magnitude scale. An aftershock occurred four days later on August 8 at 13:28 UTC with a moment magnitude of 7.0. A tsunami was generated by the initial earthquake and caused widespread devastation across Hispaniola. The tsunami was observed in much of the Caribbean and the northwestern Atlantic Ocean.
Electricite de France is formed
Electricite de France S.A., commonly known as EDF, is a French multinational electric utility company, largely owned by the French state. Headquartered in Paris, EDF operates a diverse portfolio of at least 120 gigawatts of generation capacity in Europe, South America, North America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The company was created on 8 April 1946 by the 1945 parliament, from the merging of various divided actors. EDF specialises in electricity, from engineering to distribution, and is active in nuclear power, hydropower, wind power, solar energy, biomass, geothermal energy and fossil-fired energy.
The Longacre Square was renamed Times Square
The Longacre Square in Manhattan, New York was renamed Times square in 1904, to honor the relocation of The New York Times' relocation to the Times Building.
Carl Friedrich Gauss proved the quadratic reciprocity law
The law of quadratic reciprocity is a theorem about modular arithmetic that gives conditions for the solvability of quadratic equations.
The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded
Situated by the Gulf of Bothnia, Oulu is the most populous city in northern Finland. The city is served by a railway station, port and Finland's second largest airport by passenger volume. Oulu is home to the northernmost school of architecture in the world and, despite being close to the Arctic Circle, is home to the most powerful photovoltaic solar plant in Finland.
