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Events on Tuesday 18 April 1978 1
1978US Senate ratifies Panama Canal TreatiesTreaties set course for handover of canal to PanamaThe US Senate narrowly ratified the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, which set a schedule for transferring control of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama by the end of 1999. The votes ended decades of dispute over the canal's sovereignty.