On this date in 1972, Misao Katagiri hanged for a Tokyo gunfight he had perpetrated seven years earlier.

A gun fancying 18-year-old, Katagiri triggered a shootout by seizing some hostages in Shibuya, an event that thousands of Tokyo residents witnessed — including future spree shooter Norio Nagayama. Somewhat miraculously the death toll from Katagiri’s moment of madness numbered only one, a policeman. (Seventeen others were injured.) But the one was enough.

On this day..

• 1721: Walter Kennedy
• 1775: Not Richard Carpenter, strong swimmer
• 1661: Antonius Hambroek, defying Koxinga
• 1834: Catherine Snow, the last hanged in Newfoundland
• 1797: David McLane, an American traitor in Quebec
• 1683: Lord Russell, Whig martyr
• 356 BCE: Herostratus burns the Temple of Artemis
• 1798: Anthony Perry and Mogue Kearns, Protestant and Catholic
• 1915: Private Herbert Burden, memorial model
• 1986: Vice-President Paulo Correia and five others
• 1976: Lt. Col. Abu Taher
• 1944: Col. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, for the plot to kill Hitler