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1915: Wenseslao Moguel, “El Fusilado”, survives the firing squad
On this date in 1915, Wenseslao Moguel, a soldier of Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution, was captured and immediately stood in front of a firing squad. Miraculously, Moguel survived their...
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1941: 3,500 Jews at the Khotyn Fortress … but not Adolph Sternschuss
(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On July 4, 1941, a thirteen-year-old Jewish boy named Ephraim Sternschuss began his diary in the Nazi-occupied Zloczow, Poland,...
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1758: Not Florence Hensey, Seven Years’ War spy
The French spy Florence Hensey was due to die at Tyburn on this date in 1758. As it happened, the only violence done there was to the spectators. A well-traveled Irish Catholic, Hensey had a prosperous...
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The first “executions” meted out by Mormon captors to the Aiken or Aikin Party men who were attempting to cross the war-footing territory eastward from California took place on November 25, 1857, and...
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1968: My Lai Massacre
On this date in 1968, the U.S. Army meted out the signature single atrocity of the Vietnam War, the My Lai Massacre — wanton slaughter of 400 to 500 Vietnamese civilians over the span of four evil...
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1947: Yoshio Tachibana, ravenous
On this date in 1947, Japanese Imperial Army Lt. Gen. Yoshio Tachibana was hanged as a war criminal. A career officer whose own star rose along with Japan’s empire, Tachibana (English Wikipedia entry |...
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1271: Not Nichiren, at the Tatsunokuchi Persecution
On this date in 1271, the Japanese Buddhist priest Nichiren was taken away to be executed by his political foes … only to find them spooked off completing their mission by terrifying heavenly signs....
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