1990: They started digging "The Chunnel"

It's incredible but true.   You can get on a fast speed train and go under The English Channel.   Here is the story:

After workers drilled that final hole on December 1, 1990, they exchanged French and British flags and toasted each other with champagne. Final construction took four more years, and the Channel Tunnel finally opened for passenger service on May 6, 1994, with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and France’s President Francois Mitterrand on hand in Calais for the inaugural run. 

Still sounds incredible many years later!

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