On this date in 1900, three Algerian criminals called (in the next day’s dispatch in Le Petit Parisien) Bou-Mechada-Saïd-ben-Mohamed, Chabli-Lakdar-ben-Abdallah and Boulakras-Tahad-ben-Saad were guillotined for a murder committed just 11 days before in Setif, Algeria.
On this day..
- 1682: Four at a Lisbon auto de fe - 2020
- 1942: Julius "Babe" Hoffmeister, alcoholic POW - 2019
- 1896: Five Persians by gatching - 2018
- 1643: The Book of Sports - 2017
- 1756: Owen Syllavan - 2016
- 1945: Sudeten Germans, known but to God - 2015
- 1527: Johann Hüglin, Meersburg martyr - 2014
- 1794: Elisabeth of France, sister of the king - 2013
- 1956: Andreas Dimitriou and Michalis Karaolis, the first EOKA men hanged - 2012
- 1821: Stephen Merrill Clark, boy arsonist - 2010
- 1994: John Wayne Gacy, scary clown - 2009
- 1987: Sadamichi Hirasawa, by old age - 2008