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1956
 
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Egypt's president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez canal and wins Soviet finance for his Aswan dam        
1956
 
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Nasser disregards a French and British ultimatum to withdraw from the Suez canal       
1956
 
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The British and French bomb Egyptian airfields, and land troops near Port Said and the Suez canal      
1977
 
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A treaty provides for the gradual transfer of the Canal Zone from US to Panamanian control      
1999
 
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The US relinquishes sovereignty over the canal zone to Panama on the last day of the century, as agreed in the 1977 treaty