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| On this day - 1990; December 1st | |
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| daib0 | 1 Dec 2015, 08:17 PM Post #1 |
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Saturday, December 1, 1990. The final wall of rock is drilled out, to join the two halves of the Channel Tunnel and link Britain to France. The Channel tunnel is a rail tunnel, 50 kilometres in length, beneath the English Channel at the Straits of Dover, connecting Cheriton in Kent, England and Coquelles near Calais in northern France. The concept of such a tunnel linking Britain and France had been under discussion for centuries, but it was only seriously realised in 1957 when le Tunnel sous la Manche Study Group was formed. Following the group's report in 1960, the project to construct the Tunnel was launched in 1973, but financial problems in 1975 halted progress beyond a 250m test tunnel. In 1984, a joint United Kingdom and French government request for proposals to build a privately funded link brought forth four submissions, one of which closely resembled the 1973 route. The Fixed Link Treaty was signed by the British and French governments on 12 February 1986, and ratified in 1987. It took 15,000 workers over seven years to dig the tunnel, with tunnelling operations carried out simultaneously from both ends. On 1 December 1990, workers bored through the final wall of rock to join the two halves of the Channel Tunnel. ![]() |
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| daib0 | 1 Dec 2015, 08:18 PM Post #2 |
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also today - Woody Allen Turns 80: Fascinating Facts About the Iconic Filmmaker Today is Woody Allen's 80th birthday. Here's a look at the life and career of the filmmaker who has been making one movie a year for the past five decades. http://www.biography.com/news/woody-allen-biography-facts |
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