A 28-year-old Afghan nationalist was executed in Berlin’s Ploetzensee Prison on this date in 1935.

“During a heated argument” with Sardar Mohammed Aziz Khan* on June 6, 1933, Kemal (or Kamal) Syed on June 6, 1933 “accused the minister of treason and of selling out his country to the British. He then pulled a revolver and shot him fatally.” (UP wire report via the redoubtable pages of the Oshkosh (Wisc.) Northwestern, Jan. 14, 1935)

His punishment was delayed by diplomatic wrangling between Germany and Afghanistan over possible extradition. In the end, Berlin handled matters directly.

* This man also happened to be the brother to the late (and likewise assassinated) King of Afghanistan. In time, the assassinated diplomat’s son would overthrow the assassinated king’s son and rule from 1973 to 1978 as Afghanistan’s first president. (Although if you like, you could also consider him the last of the Musahiban dynasty.) That diplomat’s son in turn was deposed in a palace coup by the ham-handed Communist who would set off the catastrophic Soviet-Afghan War.

On this day..

• 1739: Two French youths who murdered Choctaws
• 1792: John Philips, a wretch robbed of life for so trivial a robbery
• 1884: Not Crow Dog, saved by an ex parte
• 1528: Leonhard Schiemer, Anabaptist pacifist
• 1876: Michael DeHay, in fire and maddened frenzy
• 1730: Neither James Prouse nor James Mitchel, much to their surprise
• 1864: Five Virginia City road agents
• 1887: Thomas Cluverius, Richmond murderer
• 2010: Six Sudanese southerners from Soba Aradi
• 1772: Susanna Margaretha Brandt, Faust inspiration
• 1879: James McDonnell and Charles Sharpe
• 2005: Nguyen Van Van