Zeyzoun Dam
Located near Zayzun, Hama Governorate, Syria, the Zeyzoun Dam is a failed embankment dam that impounded water pumped from the nearby Orontes River. A few hours after some cracks were noticed in the embankment, the dam failed on 4 June 2002, killing 27 people, displacing 2,000 and directly affecting over 10,000.
Ufa train disaster
The Ufa train disaster was a railway accident that occurred in Iglinsky District, Bashkir ASSR, Soviet Union, when an explosion killed 575 people and injured 800 more. It is the deadliest rail disaster during peacetime in Soviet/Russian history.
Alec Skempton was born
English civil engineer Sir Alec Westley Skempton was internationally recognised, along with Karl Terzaghi, as one of the founding fathers of the engineering discipline of soil mechanics. He established the soil mechanics course at Imperial College London, where the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department's building was renamed after him in 2004, and was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to engineering. He was also a notable contributor on the history of British civil engineering.
Transcontinental Express
As a publicity stunt, the express train called the Transcontinental Express arrived in San Francisco, California, via the First transcontinental railroad on 4 June 1876, only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City. The feat was reported widely in U.S. newspapers.
