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
- 1942: Julius "Babe" Hoffmeister, alcoholic POW
- 1896: Five Persians by gatching
- 1643: The Book of Sports
- 1756: Owen Syllavan
- 1945: Sudeten Germans, known but to God
- 1527: Johann Hüglin, Meersburg martyr
- 1794: Elisabeth of France, sister of the king
- 1956: Andreas Dimitriou and Michalis Karaolis, the first EOKA men hanged
- 1821: Stephen Merrill Clark, boy arsonist
- 1994: John Wayne Gacy, scary clown
- 1987: Sadamichi Hirasawa, by old age