Lieutenant General Hisao Tani was shot on this date in 1947 for his part in the Rape of Nanking.
Tani commanded a division that took part in the conquest and occupation of that Chinese city in 1937, and it was outside its gates — following a Chinese war crimes trial — that he took his leave of this world.
On this day..
- 3rd Century BCE: Grauballe Man
- 1831: Atanasio, shot for some buttons
- 1916: Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, Patrick McIntyre and Thomas Dickson, by Captain Bowen-Colthurst
- 1875: William Hole, family tragedy
- Feast Day of Popes Cletus and Marcellinus
- 1784: Angelo Duca, primitive rebel
- 1926: Shao Piaoping, journalist
- 1945: Sigmund Rascher, feared science
- 1843: Ewen Cameron, black bean leftover
- 1901: "Black Jack" Tom Ketchum, who was left in three pieces
- 1861: Paula Angel ... but why?
- 1478: Pazzi Conspiracy attempted ... and suppressed