Timeline Friday 10 October 1913

Events on Friday 10 October 1913 2

• 1913 Panama Canal Waters Joined Gamboa Dike removed, linking the Atlantic and Pacific Engineers detonated the Gamboa Dike, the last barrier separating the Panama Canal's excavated channel from the Chagres River. The explosion allowed water to flow through the full length of the canal for the first time. Regular ship traffic through the completed canal began the following year.
• 1913 The bag, and the body Two hundred thousand marks and empty accounts Martha Diesel opens the bag her husband gave her before leaving, with instructions not to open it for a week. It contains two hundred thousand marks in cash and bank statements showing the family is effectively broke. On 10 October a Dutch crew recovers a body from the North Sea and removes the personal effects — a pill case, a spectacle case, a pocket knife — which his son identifies. The verdict is suicide. The theories that he was pushed, by German naval interests or by oil, have never gone away.