1798
- During the Irish Uprising of 1798, almost 500 United Irishmen are executed by the British army.
1903
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- The Black Hand, which would later assassinate Archuduke Franz Ferdinand, sparking World War One, assassinated Alexander I of Serbia.
1990
- Fascist and mass-murderer Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the Russian Soviet Federative Republic