27 September

Bonnet surrenders to William Rhett after the battle in the Cape Fear River.

Stede Bonnet Executed

A rich Barbados planter bought a ship, hired a crew and went pirating in 1717. Eighteen months later Charles Town hanged him, despite his pleas.

The Central News Agency receives the "Dear Boss" letter, the first known use of the name "Jack the Ripper".

Jack the Ripper Unsolved

Five women killed in ten weeks in London's East End in 1888, a name invented in a letter, and a killer the police never identified.