The London Bridge that still stands today dates from 1973. So, despite the fact London Bridge has existed here the longest, the actual bridge standing today is one of the more modern bridges over the Thames in London. Tower Bridge â Tower Bridge was opened in 1894 making this a purely Victorian bridge.
May 17, 2016. Massachusetts is full of history, and now the Bay State can lay claim to another time-honored title: the oldest living person in the United States. Goldie Michelson, who graduated from Clark University in Worcester in 1936, is officially the oldest person in the U.S. and the oldest Jewish person in the world, according to Clark. Sheâs currently 113 and will turn 114 in August. Michelson still lives in Worcester and spoke to her alma mater in 2012 when she was 110.
With the death on Wednesday of 117-year-old Japanese woman Misao Okawa, an American, Gertrude Weaver, is now the world's oldest person. In fact, the three oldest people in the world, as documented by the Guinness Book of Records, are Americans. Joining Weaver, who lives in Arkansas, are Michigan's Jeralean Talley and New York City's Susannah Mushatt Jones. The three are among only four people still living who were born in the 1800s.