On this date in 2009, Yemen police executed Abdullah Saleh Al-Kohali for machine-gunning a mosque at Bait al-Aqari village.
Despite what one might assume, Al-Kohali wasn’t a terrorist.
No, he was after a fellow clan member named Belal Al-Kohali over an affair of honor.
“He got my sister pregnant three times,” the killer complained to the court.
He did indeed manage to kill Belal Al-Kohali during weekly prayers … along with five other people who died on the spot, and four more besides them mortally wounded who later succumbed to their injuries.
On this day..
- 1590: Christopher Bales, Nicholas Horner, and Alexander Blake
- 1859: Pleasant M. Mask, wreck and ruin
- 1957: Larbi Ben M'Hidi, in the Battle of Algiers
- 1685: Thomas Fallowfield at Leicester Square and numerous others at Tyburn
- 1864: Three Idaho robbers, choked on gold
- 1852: "Brown", lynched in California
- 1656: The Chief Black and White Eunuchs of Topkapi Palace
- 1561: Cardinal Carlo Carafa, papal nephew
- 1780: The slave Violet, her head stuck on a pole
- 1771: Green Tea Hag, the beginning of Dutch Learning
- 1870: Thomas Scott, "take me out of here or kill me"
- 1388: Thomas Usk, leaving "The Testament of Love"
- Themed Set: The Written Word