3 February

Danilo Ilić, Veljko Čubrilović and Miško Jovanović are hanged in Sarajevo.

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.

Apollonia Kühn survives an attack in Flingern, the first of the 1929 series.

Peter Kürten Executed

For fifteen months Düsseldorf hunted a killer it could not see. The break came from a survivor's letter, misaddressed and opened at the post office.

Joe Newton, the last surviving brother, dies aged 88.

Rondout train robbery Convicted

June 1924: the Newton brothers stop a mail train north of Chicago and take some $2 million, America's biggest train robbery. A postal inspector planned it.