In 1542, the fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed after being accused of adultery.
In 1935, a jury in Flemington, J.J., found Bruno Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-death of the infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh. The verdict carried an automatic death sentence.
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"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."