Cuba executed thirteen people in the course of this week in 1963 as CIA agents. This date marked the middle group, as detailed in the Nov. 13, 1963 New York Times:

HAVANA, Nov. 12 (UPI) — Four more Cubans were executed by firing squads today as “agents” of the United States Central Intelligence Agency.

Five other Cuban [sic] accused as “CIA agents” were executed last Friday.

The victims today were identified as Antonio Cobelas Rodriguez, Orlando Sanchez Saraza, Juan M. Milian Rodriguez and Jose S. Bolanos Morales.

An official announcement said that they had been captured while trying to sneak ashore from an armed boat that sailed from Marathon, in the Florida Keys, on an undisclosed date.

On this day..

• 1941: Ivan Sullivan
• 1863: Angel Vicente Peñaloza, "Chacho"
• 1717: The witch-children of Freising
• 1886: William Wilson
• 1800: Thomas Chalfont, postboy
• 1964: Louis Drouin and Marcel Numa, Jeune Haiti
• 1969: Liu Shaoqi dies under torture
• 1858: James Rodgers, lamented
• 1793: Jean-Sylvain Bailly, moonstruck
• 1977: Atnafu Abate, Mengistu's last rival
• 1679: The hot-blooded Lady Christian Nimmo
• 1874: William Udderzook, because a picture is worth a thousand words
• 1755: Rowley Hanson