Finding the unexpected in the everyday.
In 2006, a memorial made out of marble was dedicated at the headquarters of the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) in Denver to honor those state employees who have lost their lives in work zones or elsewhere while performing their duties. The names of these fallen workers have been etched onto the CDOT Employee Memorial... Continue Reading →
April 23, 1854 A construction crew assigned to build a lighthouse sailed via the Chesapeake Bay from Baltimore to the site of the project along Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Most of the foundation, superstructure, and ironwork for this lighthouse had been assembled in Philadelphia and were transported with the crew. The specific location for the newest... Continue Reading →
April 22, 2016 Operations began for a rail station built at the intersection of East 40th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Denver. 40th & Colorado station, which is based in Denver’s Elyria-Swansea neighborhood, was one of eight stations opened on the same date to form the newly established A Line. This commuter rail line is... Continue Reading →
April 21, 1991 An extensive tourist route in Denmark was formally opened by Margrethe II, who reigned as the country’s queen from 1972 until her abdication in 2024. The route that she helped dedicate was named after her favorite flower, a type of daisy known as the Marguerite flower. (Margrethe’s nickname among her family and... Continue Reading →
April 20, 1954 The first of what has become a longtime series of international automobile shows was opened in the plaza at Hibiya Park in Tokyo. Originally called the All-Japan Motor Show, the event was subsequently renamed the Tokyo Motor Show. The inaugural edition of these shows took place a little less than nine years... Continue Reading →
April 17, 1962 A dedication ceremony took place for an airport in the vicinity of Bhubaneswar, the capital city of eastern India’s state of Odisha. This airport was specifically dedicated to the people of Odisha, and it had the distinction of being the first commercial airport in the state. The airport is named after Biju... Continue Reading →
April 16, 2012 Only four days after what would be his last public appearance, Danish shipping magnate Arnold Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller died in Copenhagen at the age of 98. He had been a longtime leader at A.P Møller – Mærsk Group (known simply as Maersk), the shipping and logistics company that his father Arnold Peter... Continue Reading →
April 15, 1909 The Unione Sportiva Italiana (USI), which is now one of the oldest cycling clubs in existence in the United States, was formally incorporated in the state of New York. The English translation for the club’s name is “Italian Sporting Union,” and it is generally acknowledged that the founders of this group in New... Continue Reading →
April 14, 1927 The first automobile to be manufactured by the newly formed Swedish manufacturer Volvo made its public debut. Volvo was established as a subsidiary of SKF, a bearing and seal manufacturing company based in the city of Gothenburg on Sweden’s western coast. In 1915, SKF had registered the trademark Volvo -- the Latin... Continue Reading →
April 13, 1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) signed into law a bill changing the name of South B Street in Washington, D.C., to Independence Avenue. This redesignation took place a little over three years after Roosevelt’s predecessor Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) signed into law the bill changing the name of North B Street to Constitution... Continue Reading →
Transportation History 