Williams (Ted) Tunnel opens.

The tunnel connects the Fort Point Channel area to Logan Airport. The former Red Sox star attends the dedication event. Construction of the 1.6-mile tunnel began in September 1991, and involved lowering a dozen, 1,000-foot-long steel tubes into a trench dug on the floor of Boston Harbor, then connecting and burying them. The Williams Tunnel is preceded by a shorter tunnel under the Fort Point Channel, whose construction is even more complicated. Both are connected to the Massachusetts Turnpike Extension in 2003.*