Due to a weakness for occasional meta content, this blog actually had its 500th post a few weeks ago.

March 13, 2009, however, marks the 500th consecutive sun of daily death-blogging, dating from Executed Today’s launch on Halloween 2007.

That this milestone falls on Friday the 13th is, of course, wholly accidental.

Special thanks on this occasion to my many excellent guest posters and interviewees, without whom I could scarcely have mustered 500 days of stamina.

(Additional milestone: the 500,000th recorded page view for this site will also take place in the next couple of days.)

On this day..

• 1979: Gen. Nader Jahanbani and eleven others
• 1889: Samuel Rylands, the first hanged at Shepton Mallet
• 1663: Alexander Kennedy, forger of false bonds and writts
• 1601: Henry Cuffe, mingled interest
• 1951: Ants Kaljurand, Estonian Forest Brother
• 1569: Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Conde, at the Battle of Jarnac
• 1493: Peter Dane, in the Sternberger Hostienschänderprozess
• 1996: Thomas Reckley, the first in Bahamas in 12 years
• 1956: Jesus Maria de Galindez
• 2005: A gay couple in Saudi Arabia
• 1985: Stephen Morin, serial killer convert
• 1858: Felice Orsini, Italian revolutionary
• 1998: Bahram Khan, by his victim's brother