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.
The Brooklyn, New York, woman has lived through 20 U.S. presidents, two world wars and the birth of the automobile, the airplane, TV and the Internet. Guinness officially recognized Jones as the oldest recorded person on the planet last month after 116-year-old Jeralean Talley died in suburban Detroit. The oldest living person ever recorded was Jeanne Calment of France, who died in 1997 at 122. Jones attended the Calhoun Colored School in Calhoun, Alabama, where Booker T. Washington was an original member of the school's Board of Trustees, according to the New York City Housing Authority.