The excavation took some 10 years using forced labour of Egyptian workers during the first years. The inauguration of the Suez Canal was on 17 November 1869. (25 April 1859)
There are 3386 births, 3952 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2085 other events about 5739 people in 6452 places until today.
Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.
Friday 19th of March 2004 (-) — Drug trafficker Yen May Woen is executed by hanging. Woen was arrested in May 2002 carrying 120 sachets, each containing 30.16g of heroin.
Friday 28th of July 2023 (-) — Drug trafficker Saridewi Djamani is executed by hanging. Djamani was sentenced to death in 2018 for smuggling 30.72g of diamorphine on 17 June 2016.
Wednesday 28th of February 2024 (-) — Murderer Ahmed Salim is executed by hanging. Salim was convicted of strangling his former fiancée, Indonesian national Nurhidayati Wartono Surata in 2018.