This entry in our Corpses Strewn series on the October 1698 extirpation of the Streltsy is courtesy of the diaries of Austrian diplomat Johann Georg Korb, an eyewitness to the events.
Only six were beheaded today, who had the advantage of rank over the others, if rank be a distinction of honour in executed criminals.
On this day..
- 1271: Not Nichiren, at the Tatsunokuchi Persecution
- 1902: Jim Buchanan, escaping lynching
- 1734: John Ormesby and Matthew Cushing
- 1976: Masacre de Los Surgentes, during the Dirty War
- 1968: Harun Thohir and Usman Janatin, for the MacDonald House bombing
- 1677: John S., William Fletcher, and Robert Perkins
- 1817: Maggie Houghtaling
- 1934: Harry Pierpont, Dillinger mentor
- 1859: Danford Balch, inadvertent PDX benefactor
- 1999: Zein al-Abidine al-Mihdar, Yemeni terrorist
- 1409: Jean de Montagu
- 1622: Anne de Chantraine, young witch