Hungarian pharmacist Tibor Mikulich was hanged on this date in 1960.
Mikulich was an army lieutenant in 1944, who became part of the circle of officers plotting a national uprising against the German occupation.
Which would all have been to his credit except that he betrayed that plot to the collaborating Hungarian administration with the expected harvest of arrests and executions by the fash.
After the war he had to live underground, and impressively managed to do that until 1958 when Romanian authorities arrested him. (Several people caught prison terms for helping to shelter him.)
His hanging-date was somewhat thoughtlessly also that of the martyrs of Arad, great Hungarian national heroes.
On this day..
- 1750: Maria Pauer, the last witch executed in Austria
- 1909: Martha Rendell
- 1884: Thomas Orrock and Thomas Harris
- 1893: Paulino Pallas, Spanish anarchist
- 1918: Private Harry James Knight, deserter
- 1573: Maeykens Wens, Antwerp Anabaptist
- 1922: Benny Swim, "dead as a door-nail" (or not)
- 1943: Yitskhok Rudahevski and family
- 1646: Zhu Yujian, the Prince of Tang
- 1999: Chen Chin-hsing, Taiwan's most notorious criminal
- 1553: Prince Mustafa, heir to Suleiman the Magnificent
- 1536: William Tyndale, English Bible translator
- 1849: Lajos Batthyány and the 13 Martyrs of Arad