The China Zun was completed
The 109-story, 528 m (1,732 ft) supertall skyscraper CITIC Tower (otherwise known as China Zun) is currently the tallest building in Beijing, China. It is a mixed-use building, featuring 60 floors of office space, 20 floors of luxury apartments and 20 floors of hotel with 300 rooms. Its construction took a little over 6 years and was delivered in 2018.
2009 Sumatra earthquakes
The first of the 2009 Sumatra earthquakes occurred off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia with a moment magnitude of 7.6 at 17:16:10 local time. The epicenter was 45 kilometres (28 mi) west-northwest of Padang, West Sumatra, and 220 kilometres (140 mi) southwest of Pekanbaru, Riau. Government and authorities confirmed 1,115 dead, 1,214 severely injured and 1,688 slightly injured. In addition, around 135,000 houses were severely damaged, 65,000 houses were moderately damaged and 79,000 houses were slightly damaged. An estimated 250,000 families (1,250,000 people) have been affected by the earthquake through the total or partial loss of their homes and livelihoods.
Wembley Stadium broke ground
Wembley Stadium opened in 2007 is a football stadium in Wembley, London. It opened in 2007 on the site of the original Wembley Stadium, which was demolished from 2002 to 2003. With 90,000 seats, it is the largest stadium in the UK and the second-largest stadium in Europe. The stadium is crowned by the 134-metre-high (440 ft) Wembley Arch which serves aesthetically as a landmark across London as well as structurally, with the arch supporting over 75% of the entire roof load. The stadium was built at a cost of £798 million (£1.27 billion today).
Maurice Lévy died
Maurice Lévy was a French engineer and member of the Institut de France. Lévy changed the assumption, "the directions of principal strains coincide with those of the principal stresses", stated by Saint-Venant, to "the directions of increments of principal strains coincide with those of the principal stresses" and that was also the first attempt of using an incremental flow rule.
Nora Stanton Barney was born
Nora Stanton Barney was an English-born American civil engineer, and suffragist. Barney was among the first women to graduate with an engineering degree in United States. Given an ultimatum to either stay a wife or practice engineering she chose engineering. She was the granddaughter of the American writer and women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
1139 Ganja earthquake
The 1139 Ganja earthquake was one of the worst seismic events in history. It affected the Seljuk Empire and Kingdom of Georgia; modern-day Azerbaijan and Georgia. The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 7.7 MLH, 7.5 Ms and 7.0-7.3 Mw. A controversial death toll of 230,000-300,000 came as a consequence of this event.
