28 April

Mary Read is buried in St Catherine parish after dying in custody.

Anne Bonny and Mary Read Convicted

Two women sailed with John Rackham for barely two months in 1720. Their trial in Jamaica is the solid record; almost everything else is later legend.

He escapes from the Lincoln courthouse, killing deputies James Bell and Bob Olinger.

Billy the Kid Killed before trial

Convicted of killing a sheriff, Billy the Kid shot his way out of the Lincoln jail in 1881. Eleven weeks later Pat Garrett found him in a dark bedroom.

The farmhouse burns; the bodies of three children and a headless woman are found in the cellar.

Belle Gunness Never caught

When her Indiana farmhouse burned in 1908, searchers found a dozen people buried on her land. Belle Gunness was declared dead. Many doubted it.

Princip dies of tuberculosis in the prison at Theresienstadt.

Franz Ferdinand Assassination Convicted

A wrong turn, a stalled engine and a nineteen-year-old with a pistol: how Franz Ferdinand and Sophie were killed in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.