Today in 1820 James Wilson, the Strathaven Radical, was hanged and beheaded on Glasgow Green for his part in the 1820 Radical War. A crowd of 20,000 witnessed the execution, most sympathetic to Wilson. Wilson remarked on the crowd to the hangman Thomas Moore – “Did ye evir see sic a crowd, Tammas? "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley 1797 Mary Shelly was Born
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