Bangladesh on this date in 2007 hanged six Islamic militants* for a terrorist bombing wave two years prior.

Several were agents of the terrorist organization Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, notable for a headline-grabbing coordinated bombing on August 17, 2005 that saw hundreds of explosions throughout Bangladesh. That organization’s chief Shaykh Abdur Rahman was among those executed on March 30, 2007, as was “Bangla Bhai” (Siddique ul-Islam), the leader of the Al Qaeda-aligned Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB).

* Four different prisons were used for the executions.

On this day..

• 1908: Chester Gillette, A Place in the Sun inspiration
• 1900: Joseph Hurst
• 1702: Not Nicholas Bayard, anti-Leislerian
• 1781: Diego Corrientes Mateos, Spanish social bandit
• 1555: Robert Ferrar, Bishop of St. David's
• 1875: John Morgan, slasher
• 1883: Emeline Meaker, child abuser, first woman hanged in Vermont
• 1911: Joseph Christock
• 2011: Three Philippines drug mules in China
• 1938: Arkadi Berdichevsky, Jon Utley's father
• 1952: Nikos Beloyannis, the man with the carnation
• 1689: Kazimierz Lyszczynski, the first Polish atheist