📅 The Eiffel Tower is completed (1889)
Where: Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
📅 On This Day: March 31
March 31, 1889: The Eiffel Tower is completed. On 31 March 1889, Gustave Eiffel led a group up the stairs to the top of his finished tower and raised the French flag. Built for the Paris World's Fair, it was then the tallest structure in the world. At first it was only supposed to stand for 20 years!
✨ More events on this day
- 1778 🌿 Zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck was born in the Netherlands; he described many birds and mammals, and Temminck's pangolin is named after him.
- 1901 🎨 Antonín Dvořák's opera Rusalka, about a water nymph who falls in love with a prince, was first performed at the National Theatre in Prague.
- 1966 🚀 The Soviet Union launched Luna 10, which a few days later became the first spacecraft to go into orbit around the Moon. Baikonur Cosmodrome →
🧠 Question of the day
How long was the Eiffel Tower first meant to stand?
- 1 week
- 1,000 years
- 20 years
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Answer: 20 years
Questions
What happened on March 31?
March 31, 1889: The Eiffel Tower is completed. It happened in Eiffel Tower, Paris, France.
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