Krupp's Schwerer Gustav Railway Gun Bombards Sevastopol

Rheinmetall Delivers Its First HX81 Heavy-Duty Transporters to Austria's Bundesheer

Wels, Austria

Starts 04/12/2021CONFIRMED 75% CONFIDENCE5.4 years agoesut.de^[3] reported that Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner handed over the first three HX81 heavy-duty transporters to Panzerbataillon 14 in Wels on 12 April 2021.

Austrian Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner handed over the first Rheinmetall HX81 8x8 tractor units, paired with 7-axle low-bed semi-trailers, to Panzerbataillon 14 at the Hessen barracks in Wels.

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Rheinmetall Delivers Its First Survivor R to Saxony's Special Operations Command

Leipzig, Germany

Starts 12/15/2017CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE8.8 years agoDefense-Update^[4] and Army Recognition^[5] both report that Rheinmetall^[2] transferred the first Survivor R to the Saxon Special Operations Command in Leipzig on 15 December 2017.

Rheinmetall handed over the first of two Survivor R armoured special-operations vehicles to Saxony's police in Leipzig, part of a wider German anti-terror equipment package. The 340-horsepower armoured vehicle carries up to eleven people, reaching 100 km/h and climbing 60 percent grades.

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MaerskPeregrino Field, Campos Basin, offshore Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Maersk Peregrino FPSO Begins Producing Oil at Brazil's Peregrino Field

Starts 04/01/2011ESTIMATED 70% CONFIDENCE15.5 years agoOffshore Technology^[2] and Offshore magazine both report first oil from the Peregrino field was achieved in April 2011, but neither publishes the exact day.

Keppel Shipyard converted the VLCC Maersk Nova into the Maersk Peregrino FPSO, and the converted supertanker began pumping oil at the Peregrino field 85km off Rio de Janeiro in April 2011.

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Germany Launches Its Biggest Rail Overhaul in Decades

Frankfurt am Main Hauptbahnhof, Frankfurt, GermanyDeutsche Bahn

Starts 12/31/2030ESTIMATED 68% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsA target, per the source^[1]: DB plans "to tackle at least two additional corridors per year until 2030," completing the programme's full rollout by then.

Germany announced a multi-billion-euro Generalsanierung programme to fully close and rebuild more than 40 of its busiest rail corridors, aiming to fix decades of underfunded, overloaded infrastructure by 2030.

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Dresden's Carola Bridge Collapses Into the Elbe

Dresden, Germany

Starts 09/11/2024CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE2.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Deck C collapsed between 02:58 and 02:59 (UTC+2) on 11 September 2024."

A section of the 1971-built Carola Bridge in Dresden, Germany collapsed into the Elbe overnight with no warning, minutes after the last tram had crossed it.

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Scheuerle Debuts the Self-Propelled Modular Transporter

Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik, Pfedelbach, GermanyScheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik

01/01/1983 - 12/31/1983ESTIMATED 65% CONFIDENCE43.7 years agoTII Group’s^[3] own "an invention turns 40" retrospective names 1983 as the year Scheuerle developed and launched the SPMT, but gives no specific day.

German heavy-vehicle maker Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik developed and launched the Self-Propelled Modular Transporter (SPMT), the modular, multi-axle hauler that became the industry standard for moving exceptionally heavy loads. Its name is now used generically across the heavy-transport industry.

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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

Drone strike breaches Chernobyl's New Safe Confinement

Starts 02/14/2025CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE1.6 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: a Russian "Geran-2" drone struck the New Safe Confinement structure at approximately 1:50 a.m. on February 14, 2025.

A Russian drone struck Chernobyl's €2BN New Safe Confinement shelter, tearing a hole in the roof and starting a fire that burned for weeks.

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Fenton, Murray and Wood Launches the Salamanca, the First Commercial Steam Locomotive

16 Foundry Street, Holbeck, Leeds LS11 5QP, UKFenton, Murray and Wood

Starts 06/24/1812CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE214.2 years agoWikipedia's^[3] Salamanca (locomotive) article and the Real Yorkshire Blog^[2] both date the locomotive's first public run to 24 June 1812.

At the Round Foundry in Holbeck, Leeds, engineering firm Fenton, Murray and Wood built the Salamanca, the world's first commercially successful steam locomotive, which first ran publicly on 24 June 1812. Designed by Matthew Murray for John Blenkinsop's rack-and-pinion Middleton Railway, it hauled coal using a toothed rail system.

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SBB Opens the Löwenstrasse Underground Station at Zürich Hauptbahnhof

Zürich Hauptbahnhof, Bahnhofplatz, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland

SBB

SBB Opens the Löwenstrasse Underground Station at Zürich Hauptbahnhof

Starts 06/15/2014CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE12.3 years agoPer Wikipedia's^[2] Weinberg Tunnel article: "the route was changed to its current state" with the tunnel's opening and a simultaneous timetable change on 15 June 2014, after public platforms opened a day earlier.

Swiss Federal Railways brought the new four-track Löwenstrasse station into service 16 metres beneath Zürich's main station, the first stage of the Durchmesserlinie cross-city link.

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VattenfallNorth Sea, ~70 km west of Sylt, Germany

DanTysk Offshore Wind Farm Is Formally Opened in the North Sea

Starts 04/30/2015CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE11.4 years agoVattenfall's^[3] press release "DanTysk offshore wind farm formally opened" states the formal opening took place on 30 April 2015 in Hamburg.

Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München formally opened the 288MW DanTysk wind farm, built with 80 turbines 70km west of Sylt using the jack-up vessel Pacific Osprey.

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Infrastructure09/15/2026@BuildDesk

LKAB Relocates Kiruna's Historic Lundbohm Villa in Three Sections

Kiruna, Sweden

LKAB

Starts 09/26/2017CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE9.0 years agoLKAB’s^[2] own press release states Hjalmar Lundbohmsgården, the sixth of eight heritage buildings, was moved on Tuesday 26 September 2017.

To clear ground for LKAB's expanding Kiruna iron ore mine, contractor PEAB moved the century-old Hjalmar Lundbohmsgården villa across town - dismantled into three sections, because its later extensions made moving it whole impractical.

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US Department of EnergyJames Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20585, United States

Biden Starts the Largest Drawdown in the Reserve's History

Starts 03/01/2022CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE4.6 years agoDOE's press release is dated 1 March 2022, the day the President authorised the release; the notice of sale followed on 2 March.^[1]

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Rheinmetall Delivers Its First HX81 Heavy-Duty Transporters to Austria's Bundesheer

Wels, Austria

Austrian Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner handed over the first Rheinmetall HX81 8x8 tractor units, paired with 7-axle low-bed semi-trailers, to Panzerbataillon 14 at the Hessen barracks in Wels.

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Rheinmetall Delivers Its First Survivor R to Saxony's Special Operations Command

Leipzig, Germany

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MaerskPeregrino Field, Campos Basin, offshore Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Maersk Peregrino FPSO Begins Producing Oil at Brazil's Peregrino Field

Keppel Shipyard converted the VLCC Maersk Nova into the Maersk Peregrino FPSO, and the converted supertanker began pumping oil at the Peregrino field 85km off Rio de Janeiro in April 2011.

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Germany Launches Its Biggest Rail Overhaul in Decades

Frankfurt am Main Hauptbahnhof, Frankfurt, GermanyDeutsche Bahn

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Dresden's Carola Bridge Collapses Into the Elbe

Dresden, Germany

Starts 09/11/2024CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE2.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Deck C collapsed between 02:58 and 02:59 (UTC+2) on 11 September 2024."

A section of the 1971-built Carola Bridge in Dresden, Germany collapsed into the Elbe overnight with no warning, minutes after the last tram had crossed it.

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Scheuerle Debuts the Self-Propelled Modular Transporter

Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik, Pfedelbach, GermanyScheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik

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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

Drone strike breaches Chernobyl's New Safe Confinement

A Russian drone struck Chernobyl's €2BN New Safe Confinement shelter, tearing a hole in the roof and starting a fire that burned for weeks.

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Fenton, Murray and Wood Launches the Salamanca, the First Commercial Steam Locomotive

16 Foundry Street, Holbeck, Leeds LS11 5QP, UKFenton, Murray and Wood

Starts 06/24/1812CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE214.2 years agoWikipedia's^[3] Salamanca (locomotive) article and the Real Yorkshire Blog^[2] both date the locomotive's first public run to 24 June 1812.

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SBB Opens the Löwenstrasse Underground Station at Zürich Hauptbahnhof

Zürich Hauptbahnhof, Bahnhofplatz, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland

SBB

Swiss Federal Railways brought the new four-track Löwenstrasse station into service 16 metres beneath Zürich's main station, the first stage of the Durchmesserlinie cross-city link.

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