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2015
The Wuhan Center was topped-out

Wuhan Center is a skyscraper in Wuhan near Wuhan Business District Station in Jianghan District, Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is the second tallest building in Central China, and the first building in Wuhan to exceed 400 m (1,300 ft).

1955
David Kirkwood died

David Kirkwood, 1st Baron Kirkwood was a Scottish politician, trade unionist and socialist activist from the East End of Glasgow, who was as a leading figure of the Red Clydeside era. He was recognised as the Scottish engineers' leader for many years.

1937
Jay Johnson Morrow died

Jay Johnson Morrow was Chief Engineer of the United States First Army and as Deputy Chief Engineer of the American Expeditionary Force during World War I and Governor of the Panama Canal Zone from 1921 to 1924.

1930
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium broke ground

Known as Florida Field when it opened as a 22,000 seat facility in 1930, Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, popularly known as "The Swamp", is a football stadium on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville and the home field of the Florida Gators football team. It is the largest stadium in Florida, the 12th largest stadium in the United States, and the 18th largest stadium in the world, as measured by its official seating capacity of 88,548.

1900
Dankmar Adler died

Dankmar Adler was a German-born American architect and civil engineer. He is best known for his fifteen-year partnership with Louis Sullivan, during which they designed influential skyscrapers that boldly addressed their steel skeleton through their exterior design: the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri (1891), the Chicago Stock Exchange Building (1894), and the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, New York (1896).

1895
Ove Arup was born

Sir Ove Nyquist Arup was an English engineer who founded Arup Group Limited, a multinational corporation that offers engineering, design, planning, project management, and consulting services for building systems. Ove Arup is considered to be among the foremost architectural structural engineers of his time. He was involved in several notable projects, like Kingsgate Bridge, Van Ginkel Footbridge, and Sydney Opera House.

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