Modern Era · North America · Technology
1931
Empire State Building opens
May 1, 1931
Hoover pressed a button in Washington and the lights of the world's tallest building came on in midtown Manhattan. It had gone up in a year and forty-five days, at the rate of a floor every three days, built by ironworkers walking girders without harnesses. The Depression left it half-empty for a decade.
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Also in 1931 (5 other events on record)
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.