On this day
26 June
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1880
Joe Byrne shoots police informer Aaron Sherritt in the Woolshed Valley.
Ned Kelly Executed
Three police dead at Stringybark Creek, two bank raids and a last stand in plough-iron armour: how the Kelly outbreak ended on a Melbourne gallows.
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1915
Thérèse Laborde-Line disappears at Vernouillet.
Henri Désiré Landru Executed
A fugitive swindler answered wartime France's lonely-hearts columns. Eleven people who went with him to rented villas outside Paris were never seen again.