* 1961 – Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.

In 1448, citizens rebelled in the " Berlin Indignation " against the construction of a new royal palace by Frederick II Irontooth.

Each of the national governments based in Berlin — the 1871 German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, East Germany, and now the reunified Germany — initiated ambitious ( re -) construction programs, with each adding its own distinctive style to the city's architecture.

The first public motion-picture film presentation in the world, though, belongs to Max and Emil Skladanowsky of Berlin, who projected with their apparatus " Bioscop ", a flickerfree duplex construction, November 1 through 31, 1895.

The Berlin Brandenburg Airport under construction starts operation in 2013

East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, 20 November 1961

The message was aimed as much at the Soviets as it was at Berliners, and was a clear statement of U. S. policy in the wake of the construction of the Berlin Wall.

Future investments into transportation include the construction of a third bypass of Poznań, and the completion of A2 ( E30 ) motorway towards Berlin.

In response, West Berlin would regularly raise or lower its sign to make it more easily visible from the east again-and then East Berlin would raise or lower its own construction to obscure it once more.

With the construction of the Berlin Wall on 13 August 1961, along the intracity frontier, Potsdamer Platz now found itself physically divided in two.

The Berlin Senate then chose to divide the area into four parts, each to be sold to a commercial investor, who then planned new construction according to Hilmer & Sattler's masterplan.

After the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the steps of Rathaus Schöneberg were the location where U. S. President John F. Kennedy held his famous speech on 26 June 1963, proclaiming " Ich bin ein Berliner ".

East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, November 20, 1961.

From 3 October 1957, to 1966, Willy Brandt was Mayor of West Berlin, during a period of increasing tension in East-West relations that led to the construction of the Berlin Wall.

The Berlin Brandenburg Airport under construction.

Reunification initiatives also included construction of major office and commercial projects, as well as the renovation of housing estates in East Berlin.

Immediately following the fall of the Wall, Berlin experienced a boom in the construction industry.

Redevelopment initiatives saw Berlin turn into one of the largest construction sites in the world through the 1990s and early 2000s.

| The facility was licenced for construction by City of Berlin on November 30, 2008.

As Ambassador he also played a critical role in establishing robust relations with then opposition leader Angela Merkel and in the construction of a new United States Embassy in the heart of Berlin next to the Brandenburg Gate.

Large-scale growth to New Berlin occurred in the 1960s and 1970s mainly as a result of the construction of the New Berlin Industrial Park which began in 1964.

During the Ming dynasty the last construction on the Great Wall was undertaken to protect China from foreign invasions.

Due to constant incursions from these Picti the Roman legions would be forced back to Hadrian's Wall within 20 years of its construction, and forced to abandon the territory by the beginning of the 3rd Century.

* 1970 – The Hard Hat Riot occurs in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clash with demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War.

Through the 1980s, the war stalemated through the construction of a desert sand berm, the Moroccan Wall.

** Hard Hat riot: Unionized construction workers attack about 1, 000 students and others protesting the Kent State shootings near the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street and at New York City Hall.

Pieces of Hadrian's Wall remain near Greenhead and along the route, though large sections have been dismantled over the years to use the stones for various nearby construction projects.

* 214 BC: Qin Shi Huang of the Chinese Qin Dynasty ordered construction of the Great Wall of China.

* Emperor Antoninus Pius orders the construction of the Antonine Wall.

There were enormous construction projects, including the restoration of the Grand Canal and the Great Wall and the establishment of the Forbidden City in Beijing during the first quarter of the 15th century.

These resources were overstrained by the completion of the Grand Canal, a monumental engineering feat, and in the undertaking of other construction projects, including the reconstruction of the Great Wall.

This allowed for the construction of ambitious projects, such as a wall on the northern border, now known as the Great Wall of China.

The result was the initial construction of what later became the Great Wall of China, which was built by joining and strengthening the walls made by the feudal lords, which would be expanded and rebuilt multiple times by later dynasties, also in response to threats from the north.

* The construction of the Great Wall begins.

Also in the western face, hidden by later construction but visible via the recent Western Wall Tunnels, and only rediscovered by Warren, is Warren's Gate ; the function of these western gates is obscure, but many Jews view Warren's Gate as particularly holy, due to its location due west of the Dome of the Rock.

With the Wall Street crash of 1929, coffee production went through a crisis, which made many immigrants leave rural areas for factories, wood artifact production, pottery, and construction.

This wall, for whose construction hundreds of thousands of men were mobilized, and an unknown number died, is a precursor to the current Great Wall of China.

The elector Clemens August ( ruled 1723-1761 ) ordered the construction of a series of Baroque buildings which still give the city its character.

The world record for concrete pumping was set on 7 August 2009 during the construction of the Parbati Hydroelectric Project, near the village of Suind, Himachal Pradesh, India, when the concrete mix was pumped through a vertical height of.

On August 7, 1912, the Department broke ground on its first construction project, the section of El Camino Real between South San Francisco and Burlingame ( now part of California State Route 82 ).

In August 2011, Jordanian government approved the construction of the railway from Aqaba to the Iraqi border ( near Trebil ).

Soon after Le Mans was liberated by the U. S. 79th and 90th Infantry Divisions on 8 August 1944, engineers of the Ninth Air Force IX Engineering Command began construction of a combat Advanced Landing Ground outside of the town.

Investments include the expansion of irrigated agriculture to improve food security, the construction of the Taoussa ( or Tossaye ) dam in Mali and the Kandadji Dam in Niger ( the latter has been under construction since August 2008 ), as well as the rehabilitation of the Kainji dam and Jebba dam in Nigeria.

However, political wrangling led to a lengthy delay in construction, and groundbreaking did not take place until August 11, 1971, five months before this game.

) In August 1967, the agency announced that the lunar mapping and base construction missions examined by the AAP were being canceled.

In mid-2005 construction began on a bridge across the Panj River to Afghanistan which was funded by the United States and opened in August 2007, and plans called for construction of several other bridges ultimately connecting Tajikistan to warm-water ports to the south.

" According to the Party's statute, amended at the 9th National Congress on 22 April 2001, the CPV was " established and trained by President Hồ Chí Minh, has led the Vietnamese people to carry out successfully the August Revolution, establishing the Democratic Republic of Việt Nam, now the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam, to defeat foreign invaders, to abolish the colonial and feudalist regime, to liberate and reunify the country, and then carry out the cause of renovation and socialist construction and firmly defend national independence.

* December 3 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic ( the bridge partially collapsed on August 29, 1907 and September 11, 1916 ).

* August 8 – The Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time, collapses.

* August 18 – Pope Sixtus III dies after a 8-year reign in which he has resisted heresy and sponsored major construction programs in Rome.

* August 8 – The construction of a campanile which will become the Leaning Tower of Pisa begins.

She instigated profound social and civil reforms, as well as the construction of many of the buildings that still today constitute the pride of the city, like the Teatro alla Scala, inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and today one of the world's most famous opera houses.

Following the success of STS-121, all subsequent missions have been completed without major foam problems, and the construction of ISS nears completion ( during the STS-118 mission in August 2007, the orbiter was again struck by a foam fragment on liftoff, but this damage was minimal compared to the damage sustained by Columbia ).

* August 10 – King Charles II of England places the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London ; construction begins.

In August 1947, the Hanford Works announced funding for the construction of two new weapons reactors and research leading to the development of a new chemical separations process.

On June 22, 1909, construction finally began for a working canal under the direction of August Belmont, Jr's Boston, Cape Cod & New York Canal Company, using designs by engineer William Barclay Parsons.

After years of speculation that the Yankees would build a new ballpark to replace Yankee Stadium, construction on a new facility began on August 16, 2006 with a groundbreaking ceremony across the street in Macombs Dam Park, the site of the new stadium.

In August 1665, at the age of nineteen and as a gift for his friend Litchford, Flamsteed wrote his first paper on astronomy, entitled Mathematical Essays, concerning the design, use and construction of an astronomer's quadrant, including tables for the latitude of Derby.