World-renowned escapologist Harry Houdini performed his final show in Detroit while suffering from appendicitis.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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World-renowned escapologist Harry Houdini performed his final show in Detroit while suffering from appendicitis.
The body of actress Peg Entwistle was found in a ravine below the Hollywoodland sign in Los Angeles.
The death of Mumtaz Mahal, the chief consort of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, prompted her husband to construct the Taj Mahal.
On 30 November 1786 Leopold formally abolished the death sentence as well as banning the use of torture.
South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died in Pretoria prison from injuries inflicted while in police custody.
American outlaw Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
Dr James Hiram Bedford became the first human to be cryonically preserved.
At 12.15pm on the afternoon of the 16th October 1793, Marie Antoinette was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris.
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