7 May

Every leads the mutiny aboard the Charles II at Corunna and the ship is renamed Fancy.

Henry Every Never caught

In 1695 Henry Every's pirates plundered the Mughal emperor's greatest ship. A worldwide manhunt followed. Six of his men hanged; Every vanished.

Holmes is hanged at Moyamensing Prison in Philadelphia.

H. H. Holmes Executed

Swindler, bigamist and killer of at least nine people, hanged in 1896. The '200 victims' and the murder castle of legend are another matter.