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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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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