In Saudi Arabia, distinguished as the worldwide capital of beheading, a Pakistani named Mohamed Rafiq Myased and his daughter Abajan (or Apa-jan) were beheaded in Jeddah on this date in 2006 for smuggling drugs.
(Another Pakistani national lost his head in Jeddah 10 days later for the same crime; I’m uncertain whether the cases were related.)
On this day..
- 1816: Marci Zöld, Hungarian outlaw
- 1787: John Bly and Charles Rose, Shaysites
- 1889: Two Apaches in Arizona
- 2012: An unknown organ donor, executed at a hospital
- Feast Day of St. Nicholas
- 1985: Carroll Edward Cole
- 1938: Martha Marek, Zeliopaster
- 1769: Two weavers, for the Spitalfield riots
- 1209: The Oxford clerks
- 1823: Dr. Edme Castaing, the first to kill with morphine
- 1638: The melancholy Dorothy Talby
- 41 B.C.E.: Arsinoe IV, Cleopatra's sister