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Canal
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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