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1866: John Roberson

Posted on 28 December, 2018 by Headsman

From the Richmond (Va.) Whig, Dec. 28, 1866 …

… and the same source on Jan. 1, 1867:

On this day..

  • 1763: John Brannon, Joseph Jervis, Charles Riley, and Mary Robinson
  • 1888: Leong Sing
  • 2006: Qiu Xinghua, temple fury
  • 1905: A.I. Volioshnikov, police spy
  • 1022: Medieval Europe's first heresy executions
  • 1868: Priscilla Biggadike, exonerated Stickney murderess
  • 2010: Two Iranian political prisoners
  • 1888: Prado, before Gauguin
  • c. 560 B.C.E.: Aesop, fabulist
  • 1894: Chief Two Sticks, Ghost Dancer
  • 1827: Levi Kelley

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  • 1896: H. H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer
  • 1898: Alfred C. Williams
  • 1880: Daniel Searles, the first hanging in Tioga County
  • 1866: Anton Probst, “I only wanted the money”
  • 1885: George Miller, Inkster axster
  • 1897: Ernest and Alexis Blanc, brothers in blood
  • 1872: John Barclay
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