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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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