As James stood on a chair and turned to clean a dirty picture frame in his house, Robert Ford shot him in the back of the head from virtually point-blank range.
Hitler’s detention provided him with the opportunity to write Mein Kampf, his blueprint for power, and to rethink the tactics he would use to take that power in Germany.
Sutcliffe was found guilty of murdering 13 women over a six-year period, and of attempting to murder a further seven.
On the 8th August 1963, a gang of 15 men attacked a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London and stole over £2.6million in cash.
William Kemmler became the first person to be executed using an electric chair.
The English writer Daniel Defoe was put in the pillory for seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet.
On the 28th July 1858 William Herschel, a British Magistrate in West Bengal in India, made the first modern use of fingerprints for identification.
Pearl Hart became a celebrity and acquired the nickname ‘Bandit Queen’.
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were driving their stolen Ford V8 when they were engulfed in a hail of more than 100 bullets.
Colonel Thomas Blood attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
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