📅 The Empire State Building opens (1931)
Where: Empire State Building, New York
📅 On This Day: May 1
May 1, 1931: The Empire State Building opens. On this day in 1931, the Empire State Building in New York opened. It took only about thirteen and a half months to build, finishing 45 days ahead of schedule. For about 40 years it was the tallest building in the world.
✨ More events on this day
- 1753 🔬 Carl Linnaeus published Species Plantarum, a giant book that gave every known plant a simple two-part scientific name, a system scientists still use.
- 1851 🎨 Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition in London inside the Crystal Palace, an enormous building made of glass that showed inventions from around the world.
- 1924 🔬 Mathematician Evelyn Boyd Granville was born; she wrote computer programs that helped calculate the paths of spacecraft for America's early space missions.
🧠 Question of the day
How many days early did the building open?
- 1 day
- 1 year
- 45 days
Show the answer
Answer: 45 days
🎂 Landmarks that opened on May 1
Questions
What happened on May 1?
May 1, 1931: The Empire State Building opens. It happened in Empire State Building, New York.
Which landmarks opened on May 1?
Oriental Pearl Tower (opened 1995).
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