UPI photographer Andrew Lopez won the Pulitzer Prize for his photographs of Jose Cipriano Rodriguez, a corporal of the deposed Batista dictatorship, going to his firing squad execution in the bloody first weeks of Cuba’s revolutionary conquest. Rodriguez had been found guilty of two murders by a snap tribunal that same day.
On this day..
- 1938: Vladimir Beneshevich, Byzantinist
- 1863: Antonio Locaso
- 1890: Three hangings in Louisiana
- 3,001 Days of our Deaths
- 1983: Wang Zhong, small-time grifter
- 1949: Hiroshi Iwanami
- 1944: Max Sievers, freethinker
- 1907: Three "terrorists" in an Odessa public garden
- 2006: Clarence Ray Allen, "beyond rehabilitation"
- 1945: Szymon Srebrnik survives execution at Chelmno
- 1799: Dun Mikiel Xerri, Maltese patriot
- 1961: Patrice Lumumba
- 1977: Gary Gilmore