3 June

Becket is consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury, a day after being ordained priest.

Thomas Becket Never caught

Four of Henry II's knights cut down the Archbishop of Canterbury in his own cathedral in 1170. Within three years he was a saint and the king did penance.

Cream is arrested on a charge of sending a threatening letter.

Thomas Neill Cream Executed

A McGill-trained doctor gave strychnine to young women in south London in 1891-92, then wrote blackmail letters that led Scotland Yard straight to him.

The Court of Cassation annuls the 1894 verdict and orders a new court-martial.

Dreyfus Affair Disputed verdict

A torn note from a wastebasket, a Jewish captain sent to Devil's Island, and the real spy acquitted in three minutes: the injustice that split France.