This glowing tribute was decades in the making. The Empire State Building lit up in celebration of Polish Independence Day on Monday night for the first time, after years of lobbying to green-light ...
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(WYTV)- Construction of the Empire State Building began on March 17, 1930. It took only one year and 45 days to build the 102-story skyscraper: 1,454 feet. Between 1931 and 1970, the Empire State ...
On July 28, 1945, “a Mitchell bomber en route for Newark in fog crashed into the 78th and 79th storeys of the Empire State Building. Thirteen lives, including the crew, were lost and many others ...
The incident accelerated scrutiny of military and civilian flight paths over major cities, influencing legislation about air traffic control methods and building design for impact resistance. On July ...
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