Hangzhou Bay Bridge was completed
Hangzhou Bay Bridge is a long 35.7 km (22.2 mi) highway bridge with two separate cable-stayed portions, built across the mouth of Hangzhou Bay in the eastern coastal region of China. It connects the municipalities of Jiaxing and Ningbo in Zhejiang province. At 35.673 km (22 mi) in length, Hangzhou Bay Bridge was among the ten longest trans-oceanic bridges.
Great Belt Bridge opened
The Great Belt Bridge is a multi-element fixed link crossing the Great Belt strait between the Danish islands of Zealand and Funen. It consists of a road suspension bridge and a railway tunnel between Zealand and the small island Sprogø¸ in the middle of the Great Belt, and a box-girder bridge for both road and rail traffic between Sprogø¸ and Funen. The total length is 18 kilometres (11 mi).
William Le Baron Jenney died
William Le Baron Jenney as an American architect and engineer who is known for building the first skyscraper in 1884.
Pierre Charles L'Enfant died
Pierre "Peter" Charles L'Enfant was an American-French military engineer who in 1791 designed the basic plan for Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States. His work is known today as the L'Enfant Plan. He also inspired the street plan for Detroit, Michigan.
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was born
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was a French officer, engineer, and physicist. He is best known as the eponymous discoverer of what is now called Coulomb's law, the description of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion. He also did important work on friction. The SI unit of electric charge, the coulomb, was named in his honor in 1880.
