Modern Era · Europe · Technology
1994
Channel Tunnel opens
May 6, 1994
Queen Elizabeth II and President Mitterrand met in the middle and inaugurated the thirty-one-mile rail tunnel under the English Channel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world. Britain was physically connected to the continent for the first time since the Ice Age. Eurostar trains began running between London, Paris, and Brussels.
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