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[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: On this day, August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened to traffic when the cargo ship S.S. Ankin made the first official transit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The canal connected the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through Central America, saving ships from the long and dangerous trip around South America.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Building it required massive engineering, dangerous labor, and years of work.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Its opening changed global trade, military movement, and the way the world's oceans were connected.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Also on this day, August 15, 1939, the Wizard of Oz premiered at Gromman's Chinese

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[SPEAKER_01]: Also on this day, August 15th, 1935, Humorist Will Rogers and Pilot Wiley Post died in a plane crash