When did the following event happen?
Construction on the Suez Canal is completed, linking the Mediterranean and Red Sea through Egypt.
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1895
German scientist Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a form of penetrating high-energy electromagnetic radiation that he names X-radiation due to its then unknown nature, later to be called X-rays.
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