Although the popular name suggests the purge lasted for one night, the executions went on throughout the weekend.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
On the 4th April 1968, Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 39.
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.
Casca was the first to strike and caused a stab wound to Caesar’s neck. He suffered a total of 23 stab wounds in the attack.
Sutcliffe was found guilty of murdering 13 women over a six-year period, and of attempting to murder a further seven.
The murder of Thomas Becket was recorded in a later history by the monk Edward Grim who claimed that the fatal blow split Becket’s skull as he knelt in front of the altar.
On the 31st August 1888, Mary Ann Nichols – commonly known as Polly – became the first confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper in the Whitechapel area of London.
Black teenager Emmett Till was murdered for allegedly flirting with and offending a white woman in Mississippi.
William Kemmler became the first person to be executed using an electric chair.
In the early hours of the 17th July 1918 the Russian Imperial Romanov family were shot dead in the basement of the Ipatiev House in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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