Sydney Metro opened
Serving the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Metro is a fully automated rapid transit system consisting of one line that opened on 26 May 2019. It consists of 13 stations and 36 km (22.4 mi) of (mostly underground) twin tracks. It is Australia's first and only fully automated heavy rail system.
1983 Sea of Japan earthquake
The 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8 on the moment magnitude scale. It occurred in the Sea of Japan, about 100 km west of the coast of Noshiro in Akita Prefecture, Japan. Out of the 104 fatalities, all but four were killed by the resulting tsunami.
Estadio Monumental (Buenos Aires) opened
Estadio Monumental is a stadium in Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the largest stadium in both Argentina and all of South America with a capacity of 83,196 (84.567 in 2024) and is also home of Club Atlético River Plate and the Argentina national football team. El Monumental was built on land reclaimed from the marshy coast of Río de la Plata, and required open pit excavation to ensure the stability of the ground and pumping bilge water from the site.
Andrew Clennel Palmer was born
Andrew Clennel Palmer was a British engineer who worked on offshore geotechnical problems of submarine pipeline design and the study of the properties of ice.
Jacques Cartier Bridge construction started
Connecting Montreal Island with Longueuil at Quebec, Canada, Jacques Cartier Bridge is a 3,425.6 m (11,239 ft) five-lane highway bridge. A steel truss cantilever bridge, it the third busiest bridge in Canada by vehicular traffic. Its name was given in honor of the French-Breton maritime explorer Jacques Cartier, who was the first European to sail the river crossed by the bridge.
Washington Roebling was born
American civil engineer Augustus Roebling is best known for supervising the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge (a bridge designed by his father, John A. Roebling). He also had a hobby of collecting rocks and minerals, his collection numbering 16,000 specimens and being donated to the Smithsonian Institution.
