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2018
Bogibeel Bridge opened

Located in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, the Bogibeel Bridge is a combined road and rail bridge over the Brahmaputra River. The bridge is the longest rail-cum-road bridge in India, measuring 4.94 kilometres over the Brahmaputra river and taking 200 months to construct.

2009
Jintang Bridge opened

Jintang Bridge is a highway bridge with a cable-stayed bridge portion, built in Zhejiang, China on the Zhoushan Archipelago, the largest offshore island group in China. It is the longest bridge in Zhoushan Trans-oceanic Bridges with a length of 26,540 meters, connecting Jintang Island and Zhenhai, Ningbo. The main span of the bridge is a cable-stayed bridge with opposite towers.

1932
1932 Changma earthquake

The 1932 Changma earthquake occurred at 10:04:27 local time (02:04:07 UTC) on 25 December. With an estimated magnitude of 7.6 on the surface wave magnitude scale, and a maximum felt intensity of X (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale, the quake destroyed 1,167 houses and caused 275 to 70,000 deaths and 320 injuries.

1923
Imperial Theatre

The Imperial Theatre is a Broadway theater at 249 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1923, the Imperial Theatre was designed by Herbert J. Krapp and was constructed for the Shubert brothers. It has 1,457 seats across two levels

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