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The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic at 12:01 a.m.; cars can now drive under the Hudson

Coolidge opened Saturday's ceremony by telegraph key from his yacht; two of the tunnel's chief engineers did not live to see the first car.

At 12:01 a.m. on November 13, 1927, vehicles began to roll through the Holland Tunnel, an roughly 8,500-foot passage beneath the Hudson River between Broome Street in Manhattan and Jersey City. The night before, President Calvin Coolidge had opened the dedication by pressing a telegraph key aboard his yacht, with New York Governor Alfred E. Smith and New Jersey Governor A. Harry Moore taking part. The tunnel had cost about $48 million and taken years of work, and its first chief engineer was three years dead…

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1942

Searchlights snap on at 3,000 yards, and a night battle breaks out off Guadalcanal

Callaghan's cruisers and destroyers meet Abe's battleships between Savo Island and Guadalcanal, and within minutes the formations dissolve into the dark.
1956

Supreme Court affirms Browder v. Gayle; Alabama's bus segregation laws fall

Four women arrested on Montgomery buses carried the suit, and the boycott that surrounded it has now run eleven months.
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Montreal falls to Montgomery without a fight; Carleton slips away by river

Carleton judged the city indefensible, and contrary winds nearly kept his fleet in port while American troops crossed downstream.
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Maya Lin's black granite walls, once called a "nihilistic slab of stone" by a Cabinet secretary, open with 57,939 names on them.
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1941

Shovels hit dirt at Hoover Field; the War Department breaks ground on a five-sided headquarters

Contracts worth $31.1 million are finalized the same day, sixty years to the day before the building's darkest morning.
1924

American forces leave Santo Domingo; Dominican National Guard takes over policing

The handover closes an eight-year occupation, but Washington keeps its grip on the country's customs house.
1944

American troops push into the Hürtgen Forest, aiming for a village called Schmidt

Dense conifers and steep ravines await, ground the Germans have spent weeks fortifying with bunkers and mines.
1918

2,711 guns open fire before dawn as America's biggest offensive begins

The barrage alone cost about a million dollars a minute, before a single soldier crossed the wire.
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