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An Irish Catholic Priest who was hung, drawn and quartered for supposedly aiding the murder of John Bridges (though there are claims that Bridges survived) [51] 20 September 1803: Robert Emmet: Hanged and then beheaded once dead [52] for high treason in the Irish Rebellion of 1803. [53] [54] [55] He was also the last person to be executed in ...
Boucher was born in England and served under James II in Ireland during James' final attempts to regain Britain after the Glorious Revolution.After James was forced to leave Ireland, Boucher went to France some time before 1697 where he lived for several years and supposedly spent time helping Protestant prisoners of the French king.
The severed head of Jeremiah Brandreth, one of the last men in England sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. At the burnings of Isabella Condon in 1779 and Phoebe Harris in 1786, the sheriffs present inflated their expenses; in the opinion of Simon Devereaux they were probably dismayed at being forced to attend such spectacles. [82]
Jordão da Silva Cantanhede (2013) – a Brazilian amateur football referee, [3] was lynched, quartered, and beheaded by football spectators in Pio XII, Maranhão, after he stabbed a player to death in a match he officiated on 30 June 2013. Spectators then put his head on a stake in the middle of the pitch.
Couric took over Norville’s hosting spot in 1991 and remained on Today through 2006. She recalled her decision to leave the show in her 2021 memoir, Going There, writing, “By 2005, I was at a ...
24 August – David Tyrie, a naval clerk who has traitorously corresponded with the French, becomes the last man in Britain to be hanged, drawn and quartered, on Southsea Common. [8] 29 August – HMS Royal George capsizes at Spithead with the loss of 800 lives. September – Nottingham General Hospital opens to patients. [9]
Savannah Guthrie knows what it's like to fill someone else’s shoes on the Today show.. This week marked the start of a new era of the weekday news program. Guthrie, 53, is now co-anchoring the ...
Hoda Kotb shocked fans when she revealed in September that she would be leaving the Today show. At the time, the 60-year-old explained her decision in a letter. "As I write this, my heart is all ...