On this date in 1441, North Jutland peasant leader Henrik Reventlow was executed.

Reventlow was a nobleman who came to the fore of a 25,000-strong peasant army in rebellion over rising taxes.

The uprising threatened to derail the months-old reign of the young King Christian III … but he successfully defeated it by adroitly offering some pardons and leaving the remnants to be crushed.

On this day..

• 1951: John Dand
• 1941: Pittsburgh Phil
• Feast Day of Saint Eskil
• 1741: John Hughson, Sarah Hughson and Peggy Kerry, "so abandoned to confederate with Slaves"
• 1896: Chiefs Kahimemua and Nicodemus, Mbanderu rebels
• 1535: Elisabeth Wandscherer, wife of Jan van Leiden
• 1863: John P. Wood, of the Army of the Potomac
• 1857: Return Ward, dismemberer
• 1903: Ora Copenhaver and William Jackson, a double hanging
• 1956: Juan Jose Valle, Peronist putschist
• 1987: Jimmy Glass, electrocution appellant
• 1937: Mikhail Tukhachevsky and seven other Soviet commanders purged