Tokyo Tower is a steel lattice communications and observation tower in the Minato district of Tokyo, completed in December 1958. It was designed by the architect Tachū Naitō and modeled loosely on the Eiffel Tower, but built taller at 333 meters and painted in white and international orange to meet aviation safety rules. The tower was built to broadcast television signals for the capital at a time when several stations needed a common high antenna, and it quickly became a symbol of Japan's postwar recovery. It was Japan's tallest tower until the Tokyo Skytree opened in 2012, and it still serves as an observation deck and a popular landmark.
Before and after
- 22 September 1958Birth of Andrea Bocelli
- 1 October 1958NASA is founded
- 8 October 1958Birth of Ursula von der Leyen
- 9 October 1958Death of Pius XII
- 23 December 1958Construction of Tokyo Tower
- 1959Invention of Floyd–Warshall algorithm
- 1959Construction of Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- 1959HIV/AIDS
- 1959Creation of ALGOL
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The era
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