2 November

Buckingham is executed after his rebellion collapses.

Princes in the Tower Unsolved

In 1483 a twelve-year-old king and his brother vanished inside the Tower of London and their uncle took the crown. What became of them is still debated.

Garfield narrowly defeats Winfield Scott Hancock in the presidential election.

Garfield Assassination Executed

A disappointed office-seeker shoots President Garfield in a Washington railway station in 1881. The doctors' probing may have done the rest.

A Philadelphia jury convicts Holmes of the first-degree murder of Benjamin Pitezel.

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.