October 30 - Quebec separatists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada
November 22 - Eilat, Israel, Egypt, and much of the North African Mediterranean is struck by the strongest earthquake in Israel's history - 7.2 mw.
Curiously, within a week there is attempted historical revisionism downwards to 6.2 with Gulf of Aqaba architects and engineers holding the bag for alleged 'shoddy construction'.
An architect with a large enough practice might employ architectural draughtsmen to prepare the drawings under his supervision.
Prospective architects learned the skills of architectural drawing, estimating and evaluating through an apprenticeship with an established architect, as well as through accumulating a library of architectural journals and pattern books.
There were usually sets of drawings for a single building: a perspective view in the proposed setting, elevations (a drawing or photograph that shows one face of a building.) of the principal facades, floor plans, a cross-section, a longitudinal section, roof plans and details of interior and exterior elements.