Thursday, September 11, 2003
The tallest building in the world
2580 BC the Great Pyramid of Cheops (Giza) 137m
1439 Notre Dame Cathedral (Strasbourg) 144m
1549 St Paul's Cathedral (London) 161m (hit by lightning 1561)
1561 Notre Dame Cathedral (Strasbourg) 144m
1568 Beauvais Cathedral (Beauvais) 153m (collapsed 1573)
1573 Notre Dame Cathedral (Strasbourg) 144m
1847 St Nikolai (Hamburg) 147m
1876 Notre Dame (Rouen) 151m
1880 Dom (Cologne) 157m
1884 Washington Monument (Washington) 169m
1888 Eiffel Tower (Paris) 300m
1930 Chrysler Building (New York) 319m
1931 Empire State Building (New York) 381m
1972 World Trade Center (New York) 417m
1974 Sears Tower (Chicago) 442m
1998 Petronas Towers (Kuala Lumpur) 452m
2004 Taipei 101 (Taiwan) 508m
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