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John King Fisher (October 1853 – March 11, 1884) was a gunslinger and vigilante from the U.S. state of Texas during the heyday of the American Old West. Early life and education [ edit ]
Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, was executed on Tuesday, 30 January 1649 [b] outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall, London. The execution was the culmination of political and military conflicts between the royalists and the parliamentarians in England during the English Civil War, leading to the capture and trial of
In this location – later called the Valley of Death – paramilitary members of the Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz and officers of the Einsatzgruppen murdered between 1,200 and 3,000 residents of Bydgoszcz and nearby localities in the autumn of 1939. Most of the Valley of Death victims were members of the Polish and Jewish intelligentsia, as ...
During the Lincoln assassination, there were also attacks planned against current Vice-president Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward, but Johnson's did not go through, and Seward survived the attack. An assassination plot against Jefferson Davis, known as the Dahlgren Affair, may have been initiated during the American Civil ...
Demonstrator with sign saying "Let his death not be in vain", in front of the White House, after the assassination of Martin Luther King. For some, King's assassination meant the end of the strategy of nonviolence. [32] Others in the movement reaffirmed the need to carry on King's and the movement's work.
A plate depicting the trial of Charles I in January 1649, from John Nalson's "Record of the Trial of Charles I, 1688" in the British Museum.. The Trial of Charles I was a significant event in English history that took place in January 1649, marking the first time a reigning monarch was tried and executed by his own subjects.
The main assault started at 9 pm with five waves of British troops attacking the Bulgarian positions. After four attacks during the night of 8–9 May, the British were defeated and suffered enormous casualties. [6] A Times correspondent wrote that the British soldiers called the "Boris" point "the valley of death." [7]
Since 1819, 1,343 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 20 February 2025. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place. [1] During the American Civil War, three Confederate deserters and a man convicted of attempted rape were executed by firing squad. [1]