Nantong Rail Transit opened
Nantong Rail Transit is a rapid transit system in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China. In August 2014, China's National Development and Reform Commission approved Nantong Rail Transit's short-term (2014-2020) construction plan, including Line 1 and Line 2. Line 1's construction began on 18 December 2017, and opened on 10 November 2022. Line 1 begins at Pingchao Station and ends at Zhenxing Lu Station. The line is 39.182 kilometres (24.3 mi) in length with 28 underground stations. Construction for Line 2 began on 26 October 2018. Line 2 is 20.85 km in length with 17 stations. It is scheduled to open in March 2023.
Mário Schenberg died
Mário Schenberg was a Brazilian electrical engineer, physicist, art critic and writer. Together with Indian physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar he discovered and published in 1942 the so-called Schönberg-Chandrasekhar limit, which is the maximum mass of the core of a star that can support the overlying layers against gravitational collapse, once the core hydrogen is exhausted. Schenberg also contributed to quantum phyrics and geometric algebra.
1946 Ancash earthquake
The 1946 Ancash earthquake in the Andes Mountains of central Peru had a surface-wave magnitude of 7.0, and achieved a maximum Mercalli intensity scale rating of XI (Extreme). About 1,400 Peruvians are thought to have died from the event.
1940 Vrancea earthquake
The 1940 Vrancea earthquake, also known as the 1940 Bucharest earthquake, occurred on Sunday, 10 November 1940, in Romania, at 03:39 (local time), when the majority of the population was at home. The 1940 earthquake registered a magnitude of 7.7 on the moment magnitude scale, being the strongest earthquake recorded in the 20th century in Romania. Its epicenter lay in the Vrancea zone at a depth of about 133 km. The area of maximum intensity for this earthquake was 80,000 km and macroseismic effects were felt over an area of more than 2,000,000 km2. Effects were reported to the north as far away as Leningrad, over 1,300 km away.
Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu was born
Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu was a Romanian engineer who was one of the first women to obtain a degree in engineering. She was born in the Romanian town of Gala?i but qualified in Berlin. During World War I she managed a hospital in Romania. Due to prejudices against women in the sciences, Zamfirescu was rejected by the School of Bridges and Roads in Bucharest. In 1909 she was accepted at the Royal Academy of Technology Berlin, Charlottenburg. She graduated in 1912, with a degree in engineering. It has been claimed that Zamfirescu was the world's first female engineer, but Englishwoman Nina Cameron Graham also gained a degree in civil engineering in 1912, from the University of Liverpool and the Irish engineer Alice Perry graduated six years before either of them in 1906.
Leon Moisseiff was born
Born in Riga, Latvia (at the time, Russian Empire), to a Jewish family, Leon Solomon Moisseiff was a leading suspension bridge engineer in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. His developments of the theory of suspension bridges are eclipsed by the dramatic failure of the Tacoma Narrows Suspension Bridge, his design, four months after its completion in 1940.
