On this day: The Empire State Building was dedicated

Thursday, 1st May 2014 by

On May 1, 1931, the Empire State Building was dedicated. The 103-storey skyscraper was the tallest building in the world - a record it held for almost 40 years. President Herbert Hoover turned on the building's lights with the push of a (symbolic) button all the way from Washington DC.

Empire State Building