New-York Weekly Journal, April 20, 1741
On this day..
- 1572: Annecke Lange, Gesche Herbst, and Annecke Rotschroeder
- 1713: Edward "Ned" Bonnet, the terror of Cambridge
- 1741: Henry Smith, cad
- 1558: Cuthbert Simson
- 1884: Tombstone hangs five
- 1958: Jeremiah Reeves, Montgomery Bus Boycott inspiration
- 1913: Floyd and Claude Allen, for the Carroll County courthouse massacre
- 1815: Anthony Lingard, the last gibbeted in Derbyshire
- 1872: Yoarashi Okinu, geisha
- 1845: John Tawell, the man in the Kwaker garb
- 1997: First use of lethal injection in China
- 1757: Robert-Francois Damiens, disciplined and punished