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April 25

Highway robber Nicolas Jacques Pelletier became the first person executed by guillotine on this day in 1792. When the executioner was asked if he regretted his part in the spectacle, he answered not at all and expressed pride in his job, declaring that it’d always been his goal to get a head in life.

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January 19

English poet Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, was beheaded on this day in 1547 for committing crimes against the British crown, meaning this Surrey no longer had fringe on top.