This Day In History - Extra Morbid Edition

Author: luminous_luciano

Date: November 17, 2005

by luminous_luciano
11-17-05
1859: William Siddons, 18, becomes youngest person executed in Australia.
Better be precocious, die young and leave a good-looking corpse... mate!
Makes absolutely no difference either to me - or in the Grand Scheme of Things... Billy Boy!
1967: French author Regis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia.
Bah - when I am out of heeere, I vill head straight to a quiet tourist resort - and live out my days in peas! Peace that is!
I know just the place for you, mon ami - Luxor... in Égypte!
1997: Islamic radicals gun down 60 tourists in Luxor, Egypt.
Call it the Luxor luxury tax...