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1999 Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama 1992 Opening Main-Donau canal (North Sea-Black Sea) 1989 Madoline Thomas, actress (Girl in the Canal), dies 1988 Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal 1986 Chunnel announced (railroad tunnel under Canal) 1982 U.S. formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama 1980 710 families in Love Canal area (Niagara Falls New York) are evacuated 1979 Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone) 1979 U.S. returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years 1979 Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm 1979 Argentina and Chile sign Beagle Canal accord 1978 Senate votes to turn Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec 31, 1999 1978 U.S. Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty 1978 Marguerite Canal, composer, dies at 87 1977 Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve new Canal treaties 1977 President Carter and Gen Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties 1977 U.S. and Panamana sign Panama Canal Zone accord 1975 Egypt president Sadat reopens Suez Canal, closed since 1967 1973 Israeli tanks under Gen Sharon move through Suez Canal 1973 Israel announces loss of Bar-Lev defense line in Suez Canal 1973 54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Wash 1971 A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard 1971 U.S. canal rights in Nicaragua and rights to Corn Islands expire 1968 Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal 1967 Israeli troops reach Suez Canal 1965 Children find trunk with corpse in Amsterdam canal 1964 Anti-US rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone 1957 Suez canal reopens for all traffic 1957 Suez Canal cleared for all shipping 1957 Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships 1957 Suez Canal reopens 1956 Israel captures Straits of Tiran and reach Suez Canal Egypt 1956 Britain and France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal 1956 Egypt seizes Suez Canal 1956 Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as Brits leave Suez Canal 1956 After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control 1955 United States and Panama sign canal treaty 1952 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal 1952 British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone 1951 Flying Enterprise in difficulty in Canal 1951 Egyptian parliament accept denounces Suez Canal Treaty 1950 Florence Chadwick swims English Canal (13:23) 1940 German planes attack British ships in the Canal 1937 Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13 1934 Franklin D. Roosevelt became 1st President to travel through Panama Canal 1934 Netherlands Princess Juliana opens Juliana Canal 1930 Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium 1927 Queen Wilhelmina opens Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen 1926 U.S. and Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal 1917 British troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium 1915 Turkish and German army reach Suez Canal 1914 U.S. declares Panama Canal Zone neutral 1914 Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in San Francisco via Panama Canal 1914 Panama Canal opens (under cost) 1914 U.S., Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to U.S. 1914 1st seaworthy ship through Panama Canal 1914 Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist, Dark Ghetto 1914 U.S. and Colombia sign a treaty concerning Panama Canal Zone 1914 1st steamboat passes through Panama Canal 1913 Panama Canal opens 1911 Congress names San Francisco as Panama Canal opening celebration site 1909 Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal 1904 Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panama Canal 1904 U.S. acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million 1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives U.S. exclusive canal rights in Panama 1902 U.S. buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million 1898 David de Jong, Dutch writer, Mutiny on the Canal 1895 Canal of Smock official opens 1895 U.S. Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan 1894 William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal 1894 Manchester Ship Canal in England opens to traffic 1893 Canal builder De Lesseps and others sentenced to prison for fraud 1892 Queen Wilhelmina and Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam-Rhine 1890 Marguerite Canal, composer 1888 French Panama Canal company fails 1881 De Lesseps' Co begins work on Panama Canal 1880 Building of Panama Canal, begins 1879 Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company 1876 King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden) 1871 Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening 1869 Suez Canal (Egypt) opens, links Mediterranean and Red seas 1867 1st ship passes through Suez Canal 1859 Ground broken for Suez Canal 1858 George Washington Goethals, engineer, built Panama Canal 1831 Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather 1829 Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opens 1825 Erie Canal opens 1825 Erie Canal between Hudson River and Lake Erie opened 1825 Erie Canal opens, linking Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean 1824 Great North Holland Canal opens 1823 Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens 1817 Construction on Erie Canal begins 1805 Ferdinand de Lesseps, France, diplomat, built Suez Canal 1697 Giovanni Canaletto, Venetian painter, Venicei Regatta on Grand Canal 1544 English troops attack The Canal

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