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Themed Set: The Empire Strikes Back

Posted on 4 August, 2010 by Headsman

There’s a reason that all the brass of the evil galactic empire in the Star Wars trilogy* are Brits.

  • Aug. 4: Isaac Hayne
  • Aug. 5: Nandakumar

* Episodes IV-VI. Executed Today is not at home to the prequels.

On this day..

  • 1905: Kinjikitile Ngwale, Maji Maji Rebellion prophet
  • 1789: Ford, unfortunate wretch
  • 1540: The Botolph Plotters of Calais, the last English Carthusian, and Thomas More's son-in-law
  • A day in the executions of Franz Schmidt
  • 1893: Frank Van Loon, via a mother-in-law's vengeance
  • 2015: Shafqat Hussain
  • 1743: Gen. Charles Emil Lewenhaupt, scapegoat
  • 1899: Three in the Klondike Gold Rush
  • 1347: Not the Six Burghers of Calais
  • 1882: Ham Yeatts
  • 1781: Isaac Hayne, paroled prisoner of war
  • 1474: A cock and its eggs
  • 2006: Mohamed Amin Mohamed Razali, mystical Malaysian militant

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