With the death a few weeks ago of North Korea dictator Kim Jong-il, his son Kim Jong-un “inherits great comrade Kim Jong-il’s ideology, leadership, character, virtues, grit and courage” and, of course, power.
While North Korea is notoriously opaque when it comes to reading the political tea leaves, it’s at least arguable that Kim Jong-un’s path to power has been set up over the preceding months by a flurry of executions.
For our next two posts, we note two whose politics were wrong enough to die this time last year.
On this day..
- 1963: Tankeu Noé, Cameroon guerrilla
- 1667: Pedro Bohorquez, Inca Hualpa
- 1812: George Hart, Gotham batterer
- 68 or 69: Locusta, infamous poisoner
- Feast Day of St. Gordius
- 1945: An unfortunate woman, name and nationality unknown
- 1898: Doc Tanner, Copper River gold rusher
- 1661: The effigy and books of Giuseppe Francesco Borri
- 2011: Two leaflet-readers
- 1786: Elizabeth Wilson, her reprieve too late
- 1645: John Hotham the Elder
- 1946: William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw
- 2002: Sani Yakubu