Modern Era · North America · Technology
1937
Golden Gate Bridge opens
May 28, 1937
After four years of construction across a treacherous strait, the longest suspension bridge in the world opened to pedestrian traffic at six in the morning. Two hundred thousand people crossed on foot the first day. The red-orange bridge became, within a decade, one of the most photographed human objects on earth.
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Also in 1937 (5 other events on record)
- Japan invades China at Marco Polo Bridge · East Asia · War
- Rape of Nanjing · East Asia · War
- Guernica bombed · Europe · War
- Hindenburg burns at Lakehurst · North America · Disaster
- Amelia Earhart vanishes · Oceania · Exploration
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.