Alfredo James "Al" Pacino made his film debut in the 1969 film Me, Natalie. It was
a minor supporting role which led to a leading role in the 1971 drama The Panic
in Needle Park. Pacino made his major breakthrough when he was given the role
of Michael Corleone In The Godfather in 1972, which earned him an Academy
Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Other Oscar nominations include
Serpico (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992). His
role as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman (1992) won him the Academy Award for
Best Actor, his first and only Oscar to date.

Al Pacino in The Godfather

1983

Construction began on the Suez Canal in 1859, and took 10 years and an estimated $100 million to complete. Much of the work was done by tens of thousands of Egyptian laborers, who dug the canal with their bare hands. It was opened to shipping traffic in November 1869, and soon developed into a critical channel for international trade.

Engraving showing construction trains at El Guisr on the Suez Canal