2001 Eleven die after two trucks collide, head on, in a mountain tunnel in Switzerland
1996 Whit Bissell, actor (Time Tunnel), dies at 86
1994 1st trains for public run in English Channel Tunnel
1993 Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed
1990 British and French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)
1990 Panic in tunnel of Mecca, 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death
1990 Gary Merrill, actor (Time Tunnel, Huckleberry Finn), dies at 75
1988 Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour," begins in Worcester Mass
1987 Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love"
1986 Chunnel announced (railroad tunnel under Canal)
1983 World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid
1982 Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die
1980 World's longest auto tunnel, St. Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens
1979 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan
1975 5 drown in flash flood of sewer and water tunnel (Niagara Falls New York)
1975 William F Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants), dies at 78
1973 U.S.S.R.-West Germany gas tunnel opens
1973 Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/U.S. longest, opens
1972 Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die
1968 Queen Juliana opens IJ tunnel in Amsterdam
1966 Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam
1965 Mount Blanc Road tunnel between France and Italy opens
1964 France and Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel
1963 England's Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under Thames opens
1962 French and Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel
1962 St. Bernard Tunnel finished, Swiss and Italian workers shake hands
1957 John Webster, rocker, Red Ryder-Light in the Tunnel
1955 Minas Gerais Argentina tunnel caves in; 30 die
1952 Broadway Tunnel opens in SF
1950 Bkln-Battery Tunnel opens in New York City
1944 Train crashes in tunnel of Aguadilla Spain; about 500 die
1944 Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy
1942 Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens
1941 1,000,000th vehicle traverses the New York Midtown Tunnel
1940 New York Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic
1937 Lincoln Tunnel, in New York City, opens to traffic
1936 James Darren, actor, Time Tunnel
1935 Lee Meriwether, born in Los Angeles, California, Miss America, Time Tunnel, Barnaby Jones
1931 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field, Virginia
1930 1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country, Detroit - Windsor, opens
1929 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
1927 NY-New Jersey Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens
1927 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting New York to New Jersey opens
1925 Leo Esaki, [Esaki Reona], Japan, physicist, Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973
1920 Construction begins on Holland Tunnel connecting New Jersey and New York City
1920 Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens
1918 Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service
1914 Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed
1912 Woolwich Tunnel under Thames opens
1911 Lotschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed
1909 Whit Bissel, New York City, actor, Time Machine, General Kirk-Time Tunnel
1908 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
1907 Helen Vinson, born in Texas, actress, Transatlantic Tunnel, In Name Only
1906 1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago
1906 Italian King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss president open Simplon tunnel
1906 Switzerland's Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic
1905 Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed
1903 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated
1900 World's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Italy and Switzerland, opens
1900 Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah
1899 Ill Tel and Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system
1896 William Fitzgerald Jenkins, author, Time Tunnel, Land of Giants
1884 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria
1882 St. Gotthard-railroad tunnel between Switzerland and Italy opens
1880 Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, New York
1880 Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland and Italy completed
1871 Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens
1867 Queen Victoria and Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel
1866 Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed
1866 Work begins on 1st U.S. underwater highway tunnel, Chicago
1842 Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens
1834 1st railroad tunnel in U.S. completed, in Pennsylvania (275 m long)
1713 Thomas Tompion, English clock maker (cylinder tunnel), dies
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