Tuesday - The channel connecting the Gulf of the same name to the Aegean Sea - Corinth Canal - is solemnly inaugurated in Corinth - cutting the relative isthmus in two, allowing a drastic reduction in navigation times for those who had to make the Peloponnese circumnavigation.

[The canal, long 6345 m, wide 256 me deep about 8 m with the beginning of the excavations in 1881, was built on project of the Hungarian engineer B. Gerfer and completed among various vicissitudes, especially financial]

Source: Military Navy