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** The Verrazano Narrows Bridge opens to traffic ( the world's longest suspension bridge at this time ).
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** The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens in the US to connect Michigan's two peninsulas.
** In the last mass lynching in the United States, a mob of white men shoot and kill two African-American couples near Moore's Ford Bridge in Georgia.
** In Florida, the Liberian freighter Summit Venture hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay.
** The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.
** Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge ( aka Marco Polo Bridge Incident ): Japanese forces invade China ( often seen as the beginning of World War II in Asia ).
** Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK ( followed by his movie Leeds Bridge ).
** A section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses into the river below, killing 35 construction workers.
** A coroner's jury returns a verdict of suicide on Roberto Calvi, who was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge.
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** Navigation opens on the Volga-Don Canal, connecting the Caspian Sea basin with that of the Black Sea.
** Colin Ferguson opens fire with his Ruger 9 mm pistol on a Long Island Rail Road train, killing 6 and injuring 19.
** The westbound tube AKA the first tube of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel linking to Norfolk, Virginia and Hampton, Virginia opens at a cost of $ 44 million dollars.
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