This still-notorious lynching — America’s seminal lynching for the broadcast media era — has been portrayed several times on the silver screen.

On this day..

• 1954: Jonas Žemaitis, Lithuanian Forest Brother
• 1766: John Clark and James Felton
• 1736: James Matthews and Elizabeth Greenley
• 1936: Vladimir Mutnykh, Bolshoi director
• 2009: Hu Minghua and Su Binde, child abductors
• 1948: Hans Karl Möser, for rocketry
• 1678: William Staley, "the prologue to the bloody tragedy"
• 1937: Peljidiin Genden, former Mongolia Prime Minister
• Daily Double: Stalinism east to west
• 1940: Jilava Massacre
• 1600: Hansel Pappenheimer, following his family
• 1849: Sheikh Bouzian, defending Zaatcha
• 1919: Felipe Angeles