… courtesy of the Foreign News dispatch in the pages of the Boston (U.S.) Daily Advertiser, Dec. 8, 1900:
On this day..
- 1982: Charles Brooks, Jr., the first by lethal injection
- 1799: Francesco Conforti, regalist and republican
- 1683: Algernon Sidney, republican philosopher
- 1938: Anna Marie Hahn, serial poisoner
- 1323: Jean Persant, a black cat, and the body of Jean Prévost
- 1982: Dos Erres massacre
- 1989: Carlos DeLuna, "I didn't do it. But I know who did."
- 1869: Nicholas Melady, the last public hanging in Canada
- 2008: One man pardoned during hanging
- 1549: Robert Kett, rebelling against enclosures
- 1815: Michel Ney, the bravest of the brave
- 43 B.C.E.: Cicero