John M. Hay, Secretary of State, and David Pauncefote, Baron Pauncefote, Ambassador from the United Kingdom, sign the 1901 Treaty of Washington, giving the United states the right to build a canal across the Colombian enclave of Panama.
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Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 259.