1589: Monk Jacques Clement Stabs King Henry III to Death in Saint-Cloud
On 1 August 1589, Jacques Clement, a Dominican lay brother and zealous supporter of the Catholic League, gained an audience with King Henry III at Saint-Cloud, where the king was besieging Paris during the French Wars of Religion. Read more →
1843: Hanged Outside Adelaide Gaol for the Port Lincoln Station Murders of 1842
In March 1842, Elizabeth Stubbs and a man named Biddle were killed at a remote pastoral station near Port Lincoln, South Australia. Read more →
1848: Augustus Dancey Hanged at Melbourne Gaol for the Murder of a Boy at Stony Creek
Augustus Dancey was hanged at Melbourne Gaol on 1 August 1848 for the murder of Matthew Lucke, a young boy, at Stony Creek. Read more →
1864: Alexander Ritchie Hanged at Toowoomba Gaol for the Murder of Mr Owen at Yandilla
On the evening of 29 April 1864, Mr Owen was shot and killed while travelling by buggy between Leyburn and Yandilla in Queensland, accompanied by the Reverend Mr Thackery. Read more →
1966: Charles Whitman Opens Fire from the Texas Tower, Killing 17 in Austin
On August 1, 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman, a former Marine and engineering student at the University of Texas at Austin, killed his mother and wife the night before, then armed himself with rifles and climbed to the 28th-floor observation deck of the campus clock tower. Read more →
