William Henry Bury (1859–1889) was suspected of being the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper. Hanged for the murder of his wife Ellen, he was the last person executed in Dundee, Scotland. Orphaned at an early age, he was dismissed from a clerk job for theft, and became a street peddler. In 1887, he was married in London; in January 1889, they moved to Dundee. The following month, he strangled his wife with a rope, stabbed her dead body with a penknife, and hid the corpse in a box in their room. A few days later, he presented himself to the local police and was arrested for her murder. This was shortly after the height of the London Whitechapel murders, which were attributed to the unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper. Bury's previous abode near Whitechapel and the similarities between the Ripper's crimes and Bury's led the press and executioner James Berry to suggest that Bury was the Ripper. He protested his innocence in the Ripper crimes, and the police discounted him as a suspect. Later authors have built on the earlier accusations, but the idea that Bury was the Ripper is not widely accepted.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1388:

During the Battle of Buir Lake, General Lan Yu led a Chinese army forward to crush the Mongol hordes of Toghus Temur, the Khan of Northern Yuan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Buir_Lake

1869:

One day after surrendering at the Battle of Hakodate, Enomoto Takeaki turned over Goryōkaku to Japanese forces, signaling the collapse of the Republic of Ezo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ezo

1927:

Disgruntled school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe set off a series of explosives in the Bath Consolidated School, killing 44 people in the deadliest mass murder in a school in United States history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster

1965:

Eli Cohen, a spy who is credited with gathering significant intelligence for Israel in the Six-Day War against Syria, was publicly hanged after having been captured four months earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Cohen

1974:

India conducted its first nuclear test explosion at Pokhran, the first confirmed nuclear test by a nation outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiling_Buddha

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

under the weather: 1. (idiomatic) Somewhat ill or gloomy. 2. (idiomatic) Somewhat intoxicated or suffering from a hangover. 3. (idiomatic, obsolete) Experiencing adversity. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/under_the_weather

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In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.   --Unpopular Essays https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Unpopular_Essays