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Last words reported to be "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country". A statue is in NYC's "City Hall Park". Jacob Middagh [6] 12 May 1777 Levying war against the state of New York [7] John André: 2 October 1780 British spy who recruited Benedict Arnold; assisted in attempted surrender of West Point, New York
Hart Island, sometimes referred to as Hart's Island, [a] is located at the western end of Long Island Sound, in the northeastern Bronx in New York City.Measuring approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) long by 0.33 miles (0.53 km) wide, Hart Island is part of the Pelham Islands archipelago and is east of City Island.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara [b] (14 June 1928 [a] – 9 October 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist.A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
City Island is a neighborhood in the northeastern Bronx in New York City, located on an island of the same name approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long by 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide. [2] City Island is located at the extreme western end of Long Island Sound , south of Pelham Bay Park , and east of Eastchester Bay .
The last New York execution during that time had occurred in 1963, when Eddie Lee Mays was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison. There were no executions in New York after the reinstatement of the death penalty [5] before it was abolished again on June 24, 2004, when the state's highest court ruled in People v.
Guevara remains a "beloved national hero" in Cuba (almost a secular saint, to many on the Caribbean island), [29] where he is remembered for promoting unpaid voluntary work by working shirtless on building sites or hauling sacks of sugar. To this day, he appears on a Cuban banknote cutting sugar cane with a machete in the fields.
Mario Terán Salazar (9 April 1942 – 10 March 2022) was a Bolivian Army warrant officer who executed Che Guevara as a young sergeant in 1967. Guevara, a Marxist revolutionary from Argentina, had played a major role in the Cuban Revolution, in which the 26th of July Movement, led by Fidel Castro, ousted U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista and replaced his government with a revolutionary ...
Shot dead in his recording studio on Merrick Boulevard in Jamaica, Queens, New York City. 23 July 2003: James E. Davis, member of the New York City Council: Othniel Askew Shot in the torso while introducing Askew on the balcony of the New York City Hall. 23 November 2003: Adolfo Bruno, caporegime with the Genovese crime family: Arthur Nigro