If the attached A Few Lines upon the Awful Execution of John Ormesby & Matthew Cushing intrigues, get to know America’s “first celebrity burglar” via a profile from friend of the site Anthony Vaver (author of Bound with an Iron Chain and Early American Criminals).

On this day..

• 1271: Not Nichiren, at the Tatsunokuchi Persecution
• 1902: Jim Buchanan, escaping lynching
• 1976: Masacre de Los Surgentes, during the Dirty War
• 1968: Harun Thohir and Usman Janatin, for the MacDonald House bombing
• 1677: John S., William Fletcher, and Robert Perkins
• 1817: Maggie Houghtaling
• 1698: Six Streltsy of rank
• 1934: Harry Pierpont, Dillinger mentor
• 1859: Danford Balch, inadvertent PDX benefactor
• 1999: Zein al-Abidine al-Mihdar, Yemeni terrorist
• 1409: Jean de Montagu
• 1622: Anne de Chantraine, young witch