June 8 in history

08/06/2009

US architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8, 1867.

One of Wright’s most famous private residences was built from 1935 to 1939—Fallingwater—for Mr. and Mrs. Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr., at Bear Run, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. It was designed according to Wright’s desire to place the occupants close to the natural surroundings, with a stream and waterfall running under part of the building. The construction is a series of cantilevered balconies and terraces, using limestone for all verticals and concrete for the horizontals. The house cost $155,000, including the architect’s fee of $8,000.

 

The  New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmanment and Arms Control Act was passed in 1987.

A coal tanker, the Pasha Bulker, ran aground  in a storm off the Australian coast in 2007.