The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel through-arch bridge that carries road, rail, cycle and pedestrian traffic between Sydney's central business district and the North Shore. Construction began in the 1920s, and the bridge was built largely during the Great Depression by the British firm Dorman Long under a design led by the engineer Ralph Freeman. Thousands of workers were employed, and the two halves of the arch were built outwards and joined in the middle. It was opened by the New South Wales premier Jack Lang, and a protester on horseback, Francis de Groot, famously slashed the ribbon before the official ceremony. Nicknamed the Coathanger, it has become one of Australia's best-known symbols.
Before and after
- 26 February 1932Birth of Johnny Cash
- 27 February 1932Birth of Elizabeth Taylor
- from 1 March 1932 to 18 August 1945Manchukuo
- from 1 March 1932 to 16 September 1939Soviet–Japanese border conflicts
- 19 March 1932Construction of Sydney Harbour Bridge
- 4 April 1932Birth of Andrei Tarkovsky
- 18 June 1932Founding of International Basketball Federation
- 2 August 1932Birth of Peter O'Toole
- 17 August 1932Birth of V. S. Naipaul
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