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| 1981 |
| | | The Humber Bridge crosses the Humber estuary in Britain, and is the world's longest suspension bridge with a main span of 4626 feet (1410m) | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Work begins on China's ambitiious and controversial Three Gorges Dam project | |
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| 1994 |
| | | France's President Mitterrand and the British queen Elizabeth II together open the tunnel under the English Channel | |
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| 1998 |
| | | The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, linking Shikoku and Honshu in Japan, creates a new record as the longest suspension bridge | |
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| 2005 |
| | | The superjumbo Airbus A380 makes its first test flight from Toulouse | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Structural work is completed on China's Three Gorges Dam, by far the largest hydroelectric dam in the world | |
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| 2010 April 20 |
| | | An explosion destroys BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, killing eleven people and starting a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico | |
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