From the Pennsylvania Packet, May 23, 1780.

On this day..

• 1506: James Tyrrell, Princes in the Tower murderer?
• 1916: Not Constance Markievicz, "I do wish your lot had the decency to shoot me"
• 1801: Franz Troglauer
• 1791: William Jones, "in a country out of the reach of my enemies"
• 1955: Johnson William Caldwell
• 1887: Theodore Baker, who knew how it feels to be hanged
• 1958: Vivian Teed, a first and a last
• 1970: Ibrahim Husain Muhammad
• 1972: Deniz Gezmis, Yusuf Aslan, and Huseyin Inan, Turkish revolutionaries
• 1904: Zenon Champoux, French degenerate
• 1777: Antoine-Francois Derues, scam artist
• 1916: Syrian and Lebanese nationalists, who christen "Martyr's Day"