Trump International Hotel and Tower is a skyscraper condo-hotel in
downtown Chicago. The building, named after real estate developer
Donald Trump, was designed by architect Adrian Smith of Skidmore,
Owings and Merrill. Bovis Lend Lease built the 92-story structure,
which reached a height of 1,389 feet (423 m) including its spire, its
roof topping out at 1,170 feet (360 m). The building received publicity
when the winner of the first season of The Apprentice television show,
Bill Rancic, chose to manage the tower's construction. It is the
tenth-tallest building in the world and second-tallest building in the
United States after Chicago's Willis Tower. Trump Tower surpassed
Chicago's John Hancock Center as the building with the world's highest
residence above ground-level and held this title until the completion
of the Burj Khalifa. The building includes, from the ground up, retail
space, a parking garage, a hotel, and condominiums. The 339-room hotel
opened for business with limited accommodations and services on January
30, 2008. April 28, 2009, was the full accommodation and service grand
opening. A restaurant on the 16th floor, named Sixteen, opened in early
2008 to favorable reviews. The building topped out in late 2008 and
construction was completed in 2009.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1661:
Two years after his death, Oliver Cromwell's remains were exhumed for a
posthumous execution and his head was placed on a spike above
Westminster Hall in London, where it remained until 1685.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell%27s_head>
1847:
The town of Yerba Buena in Mexican California was renamed San
Francisco.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco>
1900:
The day before he was sworn in as Governor of Kentucky, William Goebel
was shot by an unknown assailant and mortally wounded. He remains the
only state governor in the United States to be assassinated while in
office.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Goebel>
1948:
Nathuram Godse fatally shot Mahatma Gandhi, the political and spiritual
leader of India and the Indian independence movement, at Birla House in
Delhi.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi>
1972:
On Bloody Sunday, members of the British Parachute Regiment shot at
twenty-six civil rights protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing
at least thirteen people.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_%281972%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
indign (adj):
(archaic) [[unworthy
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/indign>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should
know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the
things we love, and beauty, too.
--Lloyd Alexander
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lloyd_Alexander>