** Suez Crisis ( 1956 ) – The Suez Crisis was a war fought on Egyptian territory in 1956.

** Suez Crisis: Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.

** Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.

** Suezmax, the largest size that can traverse the Suez Canal

** 31 October-Canberras fly reconnaissance sorties and bomb Egyptian airfields on the opening night of Suez War's air campaign.

** Portland Canal, an arm of Portland Inlet

** Canal of the cervix

** In the wake of deadly riots in January over control of the Panama Canal, the U. S. offers to negotiate a new canal treaty.

** Navigation opens on the Volga-Don Canal, connecting the Caspian Sea basin with that of the Black Sea.

** The Panama Canal is closed for a couple of weeks due to damage caused by earthquakes.

** Hay-Pauncefote Treaty signed by United Kingdom and United States, ceding control of the Panama Canal to the United States.

** U. S. Army engineers begin work on The Panama Canal.

** Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands opens the Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen, Holland

** Canada: The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.

** Montgomery Canal

** Canal + ( 1995 – 1996 )

** Canal + ( 1995 – 2007 )

** Canal + Film ( 1995 – 2007 )

** Canal + ( 1997 – 2000 )

** Westport Canal

** Canal Defence Light

** Canal arm, a subsidiary branch of a canal or inland waterway

** Humdrum-Aardman Animations, Canal +, Channel 4-Peter Peake

** Great Glen lochs, the Caledonian Canal and Loch Ness at Inverness.

** The Great War battalions: Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 ' 18, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Ypres 1914 ' 17 ' 18, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 ' 18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 ' 18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 ' 18, Arleux, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 ' 18, St Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918, Hazebrouck, Kemmel, Béthune, Scherpenberg, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, St Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Doiran 1917, Macedonia 1915-18, Egypt 1916, Gaza, Jerusalem, Tell ' Asur, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1917-18, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1915-17

** The Second World War: Defence of Arras, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Saar, Breville, Odon, Fontenay le Pesnil, Defence of Rauray, Caen, Falaise, Falaise Road, La Vie Crossing, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1940 ' 44-45, Barkasan, British Somaliland 1940, Tobruk 1941, Tobruk Sortie, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Medenine, Zemlet el Lebene, Mareth, Akarit, Wadi Akarit East, Djebel Roumana, Medjez Plain, Si Mediene, Tunis, North Africa 1941-43, Landing in Sicily, Vizzini, Sferro, Gerbini, Adrano, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Advance to Florence, Monte Scalari, Casa Fortis, Rimini Line, Casa Fabbri Ridge, Savio Bridgehead, Italy 1944-45, Athens, Greece 1944-45, Crete, Heraklion, Middle East 1941, Chindits 1944, Burma 1944

** Governor DeWitt Clinton 1769-1828-son of James, Kingston Academy 1782, Columbia College 1786, NY Bar 1789, Secretary to Governor 1789-1798, NY Assembly 1798, U. S. Senator 1802, resigned, 1803, mayor of New York City 1803, 1808 – 1809, 1811 – 1815 ; NYS Senate 1799 – 1802, 1806 – 1811, Canal Commissioner 1816 – 1822, Governor 1817, 1820, 1824, 1826, Dewitt is best known for the Erie Canal and the NY State Canal System.

** Millennium Force opens at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster.

** Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel opens at the Disneyland Resort.

** Ocean Park opens in Hong Kong.

** Elizabeth II opens the new Air Terminal Building at the Edinburgh Airport.

** Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, opens the 3rd session of the 30th Canadian Parliament.

** Arthur Miller's After the Fall opens on Broadway.

** Shea Stadium opens in Flushing, New York.

** The 1964 New York World's Fair opens to celebrate the 300th anniversary of New Amsterdam being taken over by British forces under the Duke of York ( later King James II ) and being renamed New York in 1664.

** The third period of the Second Vatican Council opens.

** Goldfinger opens in the UK.

** The Verrazano Narrows Bridge opens to traffic ( the world's longest suspension bridge at this time ).

** The fifth summit of the Francophonie opens in Mauritius.

** The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation opens in Seattle.

** Colin Ferguson opens fire with his Ruger 9 mm pistol on a Long Island Rail Road train, killing 6 and injuring 19.

** Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I opens on Broadway and runs for 3 years.

** King George VI opens London's Royal Festival Hall as a patron.

** The Festival of Britain opens.

** Judy Garland opens the first of 14 concerts in Dublin, Ireland at the Theatre Royal.

** Shoppers World ( one the first shopping malls in the U. S .) opens in Framingham, Massachusetts.

** Cincinnati Gardens opens in Cincinnati.

** Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal opens in Sweden.

** The Jodrell Bank Radio telescope opens in Cheshire, UK.

** The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens in the US to connect Michigan's two peninsulas.

** The westbound tube AKA the first tube of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel linking to Norfolk, Virginia and Hampton, Virginia opens at a cost of $ 44 million dollars.