American outlaw Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
10th November 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates Dr David Livingstone in Africa
10th November 2017
Dr James Hiram Bedford became the first human to be cryonically preserved.
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.
South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died in Pretoria prison from injuries inflicted while in police custody.
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.
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.
16th September 1978: Filming begins on Monty Python’s Life of Brian
16th September 2019
13th September 1501: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David
13th September 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017
