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Today in
Crime History

1917 - Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad. Hari was a Dutch dancer that had spied for Germany.

1945 - Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, was executed for treason.

1946 - Hermann Goering, a Nazi war criminal and founder of the Gestapo, poisoned himself just hours before his scheduled execution.

Today in
Disaster History

1998 - Typhoon Zeb killed 24 people and drove 100,000 more from their homes when it hit the Philippines.

2003 - In New York, a Staten Island ferry, Andrew J. Barberi, crashed into a maintenance pier with around 1,500 people aboard. Ten people were killed, 3 lost limbs and about 60 more were injured.

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