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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  TBM Wanda Completes Drilling of the Albvorland Tunnel

  Wendlingen am Neckar, GermanyImplenia

  

  Starts 10/29/2019CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCE6.9 years agoImplenia's^[4] own project news release dates the southern tube breakthrough to 29 October 2019.

  Tunnel boring machine Wanda finished excavating the southern tube of the Albvorland Tunnel, the last major breakthrough on Deutsche Bahn's Stuttgart-Ulm high-speed line. The 8-kilometer twin-tube tunnel near Wendlingen am Neckar was built by Implenia and cuts travel time between Stuttgart and Ulm to roughly 30 minutes.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  ITER Fusion Reactor Delayed to 2034

  ITER OrganizationITER, Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, France

  Starts 12/31/2034DELAYED14 years late43% CONFIDENCEin 8.3 yearsDate has moved, per the source^[1]: ITER "will start scientific operation in 2034," after the original plan "envisaged first plasma as early as 2025."

  ITER, the largest and most powerful nuclear fusion reactor ever attempted, built in southern France by 35 partner nations, has pushed its first scientific operations back to 2034 after years of delays.

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• Science09/22/2026@ScienceDesk

  The Curies Announce the Discovery of Radium

  Institut de France, Rue de Seine, Quartier de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 6th Arrondissement, Paris, Ile-de-France, Metropolitan France, 75006, FranceFrench Academy of Sciences

  

  Starts 12/26/1898CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE127.7 years agoWikipedia's^[2] Radium article dates both steps: "Radium was discovered by Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her husband Pierre Curie on 21 December 1898 in a uraninite (pitchblende) sample from Jachymov" and "The Curies announced their discovery to the French Academy of Sciences on 26 December 1898". The pin is the announcement, the public event of the two.

  Marie and Pierre Curie announce radium to the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, five days after isolating it from pitchblende ore mined at Jachymov. It is the second element they identify that year, after polonium.

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• Science09/21/2026@ScienceDesk

  ITER Starts Research Operations

  ITER OrganizationITER, Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France

  Starts 12/31/2034ESTIMATED68% CONFIDENCEin 8.3 yearsITER's^[1] updated 2024 baseline gives 2034 for the start of research activities. Only the year is stated, so the pin takes its last day.

  ITER's 2024 baseline puts the start of research operations in 2034, opening a period of hydrogen and deuterium plasma experiments at the fusion reactor in southern France.

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• Mining09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  TAKRAF Commissions the First F60 Overburden Conveyor Bridge at Welzow

  Welzow, Brandenburg, GermanyTAKRAF

  

  Starts 01/01/1972ESTIMATED65% CONFIDENCE54.7 years agoWikipedia's^[2] Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60 article dates the first unit's construction to 1969-1972 and entry into service at the Welzow open-pit mine to 1972, without a specific day.

  VEB TAKRAF completed the first F60 lignite overburden conveyor bridge at the Welzow open-pit mine, creating what is still recognized as the largest mobile land machine ever built.

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• Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk

  Abbott's Amulet 360 LAA Occluder Wins CE Mark

  Abbott Laboratories·…Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United States

  Starts 08/27/2026CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE27 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Aug. 27, 2026" and says Abbott "announced today it has received CE Mark for the Amulet 360 Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluder".^[1]

  Abbott's next-generation Amulet 360 left atrial appendage occluder received CE Mark to cut stroke risk in non-valvular atrial fibrillation, with the first European implants done in Frankfurt, Lubeck and Aarhus.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Chornobyl NPP Accepts Novarka's New Safe Confinement Into Operation

  NovarkaChernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine

  Starts 11/08/2017CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE8.9 years agoUkraine's Chornobyl NPP states it accepted the New Safe Confinement's Enclosing Perimeter into operation on 8 November 2017 (chnpp.gov.ua^[2]).

  Ukraine's Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant formally accepted the New Safe Confinement's Enclosing Perimeter from builder Novarka, completing the giant arch meant to contain the ruined Reactor 4 for a century. The 36,000-tonne steel structure, the largest movable land-based structure ever built, had been skidded into place over the old sarcophagus in November 2016.

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• Automotive09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Opel Opens the Dudenhofen Test Center as Europe's Most Modern Proving Ground

  Am Opel-Prüffeld 2, 63110 Rodgau-Dudenhofen, GermanyOpel

  

  04/01/1966 - 04/30/1966CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE60.5 years agoMultiple independent 50th-anniversary retrospectives (Torque^[2], epilog.de, autohaus.de^[3]) agree the Dudenhofen proving ground opened in April 1966, though none give an exact day.

  Opel opened its Dudenhofen proving ground near Frankfurt in April 1966, the most modern car test center in Europe at the time. Six decades on, its more than 70 kilometers of track still put prototype technologies like automated driving through secretive testing before they reach the road.

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• Energy09/11/2026@ThePinGang

  ITER First Plasma

  Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, FranceITER Organization

  

  Starts 06/01/2034ESTIMATED52% CONFIDENCEin 7.7 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the pin description: "…roduce ten times the power it consumes. Estimated date.…"

  The world's largest tokamak, built by 35 nations in southern France, aims to show fusion can produce ten times the power it consumes. Estimated date.

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• Aerospace09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Airbus Delivers Its First A400M Atlas to the Luftwaffe

  Airbus Defence and Space Plant, San Pablo, Seville, SpainAirbus Defence and Space

  

  Starts 12/18/2014CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE11.8 years agoAirbus^[4] and OCCAR delivery records state the first production A400M for Germany (MSN018) was handed over to the Luftwaffe on 18 December 2014, one day before it landed at its Wunstorf home base.

  Airbus Defence and Space delivered the first production A400M Atlas military transport, assembled at its Seville final assembly line, to the German Luftwaffe.

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• Food09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Heinz Opens Its Kitt Green Factory in Wigan

  Kitt Green, Orrell, Wigan WN5 0LU, UKHeinz

  

  Starts 05/21/1959CONFIRMED78% CONFIDENCE67.3 years agoWikipedia's^[3] H. J. Heinz, Wigan article dates the Kitt Green factory's opening to 21 May 1959.

  H.J. Heinz opens its Kitt Green factory near Wigan, which grows into the company's largest food processing plant in the world and Europe's biggest.

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• Aerospace09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Arianespace Launches Ariane 5 on Its Final Flight, VA261

  ELA-3 Launch Complex, Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French GuianaArianespace

  

  Starts 07/05/2023CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE3.2 years agoSpaceflight Now^[3] and ESA both confirm Ariane 5 flight VA261, the rocket's final launch, lifted off on 5 July 2023.

  Arianespace flew Europe's Ariane 5 heavy-lift rocket for the last time from the Guiana Space Centre, retiring the launcher after 27 years and 117 missions. The final flight, VA261, carried Germany's Heinrich Hertz communications satellite and France's Syracuse 4B military satellite to orbit.

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