2014 Event Expansion plans for the Panama Canal are paused so Grupo Unidos por el Canal, the group behind the project, can seek more funding for the $3.2 billion project 2011 Event For the first time since 1979 Iranian Revolution, two ships from the Iran Navy are sent through the Suez Canal 1999 Event Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama 1992 Event Opening Main-Donau canal (North Sea-Black Sea) 1989 Death Madoline Thomas, actress (Girl in the Canal), dies 1988 Event Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal 1986 Event Chunnel announced (railroad tunnel under Canal) 1982 Event U.S. formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama 1980 Event 710 families in Love Canal area (Niagara Falls New York) are evacuated 1979 Event Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone) 1979 Event U.S. returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years 1979 Event Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm 1979 Event Argentina and Chile sign Beagle Canal accord 1978 Event Senate votes to turn Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec 31, 1999 1978 Event U.S. Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty 1978 Death Marguerite Canal, composer, dies at 87 1977 Event Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve new Canal treaties 1977 Event President Carter and General Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties 1977 Event U.S. and Panamana sign Panama Canal Zone accord 1975 Event Egypt president Sadat reopens Suez Canal, closed since 1967 1973 Event Israeli tanks under General Sharon move through Suez Canal 1973 Event Israel announces loss of Bar-Lev defense line in Suez Canal 1973 Event 54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Wash 1971 Event A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard 1971 Event U.S. canal rights in Nicaragua and rights to Corn Islands expire 1968 Event Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal 1967 Event Israeli troops reach Suez Canal 1965 Event Children find trunk with corpse in Amsterdam canal 1964 Event Anti-U.S. rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone 1957 Event Suez canal reopens for all traffic 1957 Event Suez Canal cleared for all shipping 1957 Event Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships 1957 Event Suez Canal reopens 1956 Event Israel captures Straits of Tiran and reach Suez Canal Egypt 1956 Event Britain and France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal 1956 Event Egypt seizes Suez Canal 1956 Event Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as Brits leave Suez Canal 1956 Event After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control 1955 Event United States and Panama sign canal treaty 1952 Event Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal 1952 Event British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone 1951 Event Flying Enterprise in difficulty in Canal 1951 Event Egyptian parliament accept denounces Suez Canal Treaty 1950 Event Florence Chadwick swims English Canal (13:23) 1940 Event German planes attack British ships in the Canal 1937 Event Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13 1934 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt became 1st President to travel through Panama Canal 1934 Event Netherlands Princess Juliana opens Juliana Canal 1930 Event Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium 1927 Event Queen Wilhelmina opens Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen 1926 Event U.S. and Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal 1917 Event British troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium 1915 Event Turkish and German army reach Suez Canal 1914 Event U.S. declares Panama Canal Zone neutral 1914 Event Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in San Francisco via Panama Canal 1914 Event Panama Canal opens (under cost) 1914 Event U.S., Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to U.S. 1914 Event 1st seaworthy ship through Panama Canal 1914 Birthday Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist, Dark Ghetto 1914 Event U.S. and Colombia sign a treaty concerning Panama Canal Zone 1914 Event 1st steamboat passes through Panama Canal 1913 Event Panama Canal opens 1911 Event Congress names San Francisco as Panama Canal opening celebration site 1909 Event Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal 1904 Event Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panama Canal 1904 Event U.S. acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million 1903 Event Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives U.S. exclusive canal rights in Panama 1902 Event U.S. buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million 1898 Birthday David de Jong, Dutch writer, Mutiny on the Canal 1895 Event Canal of Smock official opens 1895 Event U.S. Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan 1894 Event William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal 1894 Event Manchester Ship Canal in England opens to traffic 1893 Event Canal builder De Lesseps and others sentenced to prison for fraud 1892 Event Queen Wilhelmina and Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam-Rhine 1890 Birthday Marguerite Canal, composer 1888 Event French Panama Canal company fails 1881 Event De Lesseps' Co begins work on Panama Canal 1880 Event Building of Panama Canal, begins 1879 Event Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company 1876 Event King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden) 1871 Event Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening 1869 Event Suez Canal (Egypt) opens, links Mediterranean and Red seas 1867 Event 1st ship passes through Suez Canal 1859 Event Ground broken for Suez Canal 1858 Birthday George Washington Goethals, engineer, built Panama Canal 1831 Event Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather 1829 Event Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opens 1825 Event Erie Canal opens 1825 Event Erie Canal between Hudson River and Lake Erie opened 1825 Event Erie Canal opens, linking Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean 1824 Event Great North Holland Canal opens 1823 Event Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens 1817 Event Construction on Erie Canal begins 1805 Birthday Ferdinand de Lesseps, France, diplomat, built Suez Canal 1697 Birthday Giovanni Canaletto, Venetian painter, Venicei Regatta on Grand Canal 1544 Event English troops attack The Canal
