Panshet and Khadakwasla dam failures
Panshet and Khadakwasla dams were located on the Mutha River. Flooding caused by their failure caused more than 2,000 fatalities.
Boris Galerkin died
Boris Galerkin was a Soviet mathematician and an engineer. Among many other things, in 1915, Galerkin published an article in which he put forward an idea of an approximate method for differential equations, in particular boundary value problems. He applied his method to a big number of pivot and plate analysis problems. The Galerkin method (or Bubnov-Galerkin method) with Galerkin's (or "weak") differential equations problem statement form are known all over the world. Today, they provide a foundation for algorithms in the fields of mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, hydrodynamics, and many others.
Fritz Leonhardt was born
Fritz Leonhardt was a German structural engineer who made major contributions to 20th-century bridge engineering, especially in the development of cable-stayed bridges. His book Bridges: Aesthetics and Design is well known throughout the bridge engineering community.
Robert Stevenson died
Robert Stevenson was a Scottish civil engineer, and designer and builder of lighthouses.
Thomas Hawksley was born
Thomas Hawksley was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with early water supply and coal gas engineering projects. Hawksley was, with John Frederick Bateman, the leading British water engineer of the nineteenth century and was personally responsible for upwards of 150 water-supply schemes, in the British Isles and overseas.
