1631 – Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, spent the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
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1939 – Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, was guillotined in Versailles, outside the Saint-Pierre prison.
The “hysterical behaviour” of spectators was so scandalous that French president Albert Lebrun immediately banned all future public executions.
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1958 – Jello Biafra born. Former lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys, now focused primarily on spoken word.
He is a staunch believer in a free society, who utilizes shock value and advocates direct action and pranksterism in the name of political causes, known to use absurdist media tactics in the leftist tradition of the Yippies, to highlight issues of civil rights and social justice.
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Alchemy & Accident 