HistoryTodayhttp://feedburner.google.com transcontinental system was completed, linking Montreal with Port Moody, British Columbia (1885) http://www.answers.com/topic/canadian-pacific-railway-2 suspension bridge over the Tacoma Narrows collapsed due to aeroelastic flutter, killing a cocker spaniel and becoming a textbook engineering disaster case (1940) http://www.answers.com/topic/tacoma-narrows-bridge Carl B. Stokes became the first black mayor of a major US city, Cleveland (1967); Douglas Wilder became the first elected black governor of a US state, Virginia (1989) http://www.answers.com/topic/american-civil-rights-movement-disambiguation LA Lakers basketball star announced he had AIDS and was retiring (1991) http://www.answers.com/topic/magic-johnson 1440 Answers.com: This Day in History fills you in on the historical significance of each day. http://today.answers.com en-us Copyright 2007 Answers Corp.