Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 6 July 1840

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

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)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Monday 6th of July 1840 185 years ago
Murderer François Benjamin Courvoisier is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. A crowd of around 40.000 including Charles Dickens witnessed Courvoisier's execution. In January 2017 his plaster death mask was sold for £20.000 by Thomson Roddick auction house. The name of the buyer is unknown.