2014 Event Kurdish peshmerga fighters are able to recapture part of the Mosul Dam after U.S. airstrikes push back Islamic State militants 2014 Event Lesotho has received funding from the World Bank to continue improving its water supply by enhancing the Metalong Dam and providing water to more areas; the project benefits around 30,000 residents 2012 Event Australia's Nepean-Hawkesbury River system floods after the Warragamba Dam overflows, causing evacuations in the Sydney suburbs Richmond, Pitt Town and Grono Point 2011 Event China asks Myanmar to protect Chinese corporate interests after Burma's President Thein Sein shut down the Myitsone Dam project 2011 Event After a rare public outcry, President Thein Sein of Burma decides to halt the controversial Myitsone Dam project 2010 Event Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest water control and utilization project, announces its water levels have reached full capacity 2009 Event At least 99 people are killed after flash flooding and the failure of the Situ Gintung dam in Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia 1995 Death Louis Sen A Kaw, Suriname's great dam builder, dies at 75 1993 Event Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed 1991 Death Ho Dam, foreign minister North-Korea (1970-83), dies 1986 Event Queen Beatrice installs dam at Oosterschelde 1985 Event Dam in Fiemme Valley Italy bursts; 200-300 die 1977 Event 39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Ga 1976 Event Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage, 14 die 1974 Event Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam 1972 Event 14" of rain in 6 hours burst Rapid City, South Dakota dam, drowns 237 1972 Event Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, kills 125 1971 Event Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt 1970 Event Huge Aswan Dam opens in Egypt 1967 Event 6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200 1967 Death Henry J Kaiser, industrialist (Boulder Dam, Liberty ship), dies at 85 1965 Event Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland 1965 Event U.S.S.R. and Persia sign dam building and economic aid pact 1964 Event Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam 1963 Event Dam bursts in Italy, 3,000+ die 1963 Event Dam in Piave valley Italy, breaks' about 2,000 die 1963 Event Landslide into Vaiont Dam emptys lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy) 1961 Event 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Ice Harbor Dam, Washington (state record) 1960 Event 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland 1960 Event Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins 1959 Event Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus 1959 Event U.S.S.R. and Egypt sign contracts for building Aswan Dam 1959 Event Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die 1958 Event U.S.S.R. lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam 1958 Event U.S.S.R. lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam 1956 Event Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam 1956 Event U.S. refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam 1952 Event French president inaugurates Donzere-Mondragonstuw Dam 1947 Event Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover 1943 Event -60 degrees F (-51 degrees C), Island Park Dam, Idaho (state record) 1941 Event Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation 1940 Birthday Jose Van Dam, Brussels Belgium, bass-baritone, Francois d'Assisif 1938 Birthday Marcel P A van Dam, Dutch politician/CEO, VARA Radio/TV 1937 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State 1937 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon) 1937 Event Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power 1937 Death Ross Alexander, actor (Captain Blood, Boulder Dam), dies at 29 1936 Event Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles 1936 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam 1936 Event Boulder Dam, now Hoover Dam, begins operation 1935 Event Boulder Dam completed 1934 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) 1932 Event Dnjepr Dam in U.S.S.R. put into operation (world's biggest) 1932 Event Dam closed, at current monument (South Seas) 1930 Event Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn, to New Orleans 1930 Event Construction begins on Boulder Dam 1930 Event Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated 1929 Event President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam, Hoover Dam 1929 Birthday Ho Dam, North Korean Secretary of State, 1970 - 1983 1928 Event 450 die in St. Francisquito Valley Dam burst (Calif) 1924 Birthday Robert Kastenmeier, born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, Representative-D-Wisconsin 1959 - 1991 1919 Birthday Louis Sen A Kaw, Surinam dam builder 1913 Event Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic and Pacific waters mix 1912 Event Aswan Dam in Nile begins operation 1907 Birthday Ross Alexander, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Boulder Dam, Captain Blood 1903 Event -59 degrees F (-51 degrees C), Pokegama Dam, Minnesota (state record) 1885 Birthday John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor, National monument on the Dam 1882 Birthday Henry J Kaiser, builder, Liberty Ships, Jeeps, Boulder Dam 1874 Event 1st recorded dam disaster in U.S. (Williamsburg Mass) 1862 Event Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulses Confederacy in Virginia 1860 Death Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch milt/liberal politician, dies at 63 1796 Birthday Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch military/liberal politician 1795 Event Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution 1652 Event Fire on Dutch Dam, Amsterdam's city hall burns
