29 October

Kelly is convicted of Lonigan's murder in Melbourne and sentenced to death by Sir Redmond Barry.

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.

A coroner's jury finds the three died of wounds inflicted by the Earps and Holliday without ruling on blame.

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Acquitted

About thirty shots in thirty seconds on Fremont Street, Tombstone, in 1881: three Cowboys dead, the Earps charged with murder, and a month-long hearing.

Czolgosz is electrocuted at Auburn Prison.

McKinley Assassination Executed

Buffalo, 1901: a young anarchist hides a revolver under a handkerchief in the president's receiving line. Eight days later McKinley is dead.

His trial for forgery and fraud opens before the Amsterdam regional court.

Han van Meegeren Convicted

Arrested in 1945 for selling a Vermeer to Göring, a Dutch painter saved himself by proving he had painted it. Then he had to prove he had faked the rest.