Black teenager Emmett Till was murdered for allegedly flirting with and offending a white woman in Mississippi.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
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.
Archibald Brown was murdered by his son, who placed an anti-tank grenade under the seat of his bath chair.
The radical French journalist Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.
The Australian outlaw Ned Kelly was arrested following a violent shoot-out with police at Glenrowan in Victoria.
Giacomo Matteotti, an Italian socialist politician, was kidnapped and then murdered by members of the Fascist party.
The Pazzi family in Florence launched their unsuccessful plot to overthrow the Medici family with an assassination attempt against the brothers Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici.
Nicolas Jacques Pelletier, a French highwayman who was found guilty of killing a man during one of his robberies, was the first victim of the French decapitation machine.
King was standing on the balcony outside his room at the Lorrain Motel in Memphis when he was hit by a single bullet that shattered his jaw and several vertebrae.
Commanded by Lieutenant William Calley, the troops killed between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in hamlets around the South Vietnamese village of Son My.
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