Tuesday, August 25, 1970

August 1914: The Panama Canal opened for traffic

A little history today.   The Panama Canal  has another birthday this month.   The engineers selected the location in 1906 and construction began in 1909.  As we understand, they moved 240 million cubic yards of earth and spent more than US$ 400 million.  It was finally opened for traffic on this day in 1914.

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