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1 day ago · At the end of the 19th century, several forms of industrial development shaped Minnesota. In 1882, a hydroelectric power plant was built at Saint Anthony Falls, marking one of the first developments of hydroelectric power in the United States. Iron mining began in northern Minnesota with the opening of the Soudan Mine in 1884.
1 hour ago · When the British colonial government built several north–south-oriented fence lines between 1901 and 1907 to keep the rabbits (that they had introduced) from migrating into western Australian farm and pasture lands, it did not simply introduce a barrier (Rabbits introduced 2022; The rabbit-proof fence 2021).
1 hour ago · The fourth was a failed bombing attempt on railway tracks in Maharashtra in 1961. Despite threats to his life, Nehru despised having excess security personnel around him and did not like his movements to disrupt traffic. K. Kamaraj became the president of the All India Congress Committee in 1963 during the last year of Nehru's life.
- 28 December 1885 (137 years ago)
1 day ago · Sovnarkom – on 10 May crashed into Novosibirsk railway bridge and sank in the Ob River, resulting in the death of at least 225 (according to other estimates, 400). 225–400 1906 Brazil: Aquidabã – an ironclad warship built during the mid-1880s. On 21 January, the powder magazine of the ship exploded, sinking it within three minutes. 212 ...
1 day ago · Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
- Warren, joined by unanimous
- Oliver Brown, et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al.
1 day ago · Bryant Park contains a Beaux-Arts granite restroom structure on the northern border, along 42nd Street. There are two facilities, one for men and women, both of which are 315 square feet (29.3 m 2). These were built in 1911 along with the NYPL Main Branch, but due to the park's landmark status, they cannot be expanded.
1 hour ago · One of Asia’s longest, the 9.15 km, Dhola-Sadiya Road Bridge over the river Lohit-Brahmaputra was built in 2017 to connect the remotest and most cut-off mountainous Eastern Arunachal Pradesh with Assam. In 2018, another milestone over the river Brahmaputra was achieved with the construction of the longest rail-road bridge, spanning 4.94 km.
