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The Aswan High Dam in Egypt construction officially begins o January 9, 1960, with President Gamal Abdel Nasser detonating dynamite to mark the start of the massive project.
The rock-fill dam across the Nile River at Aswān, Egypt, was completed in 1970 and inaugurated in 1971. It now generates large amounts of electric power and allows for the control of the annual Nile flood providing major benefits to the Egyptian economy. More
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