may 1, 1820 - William Davidson is executed
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The British Caribbean political radical, William Davidson, is executed for his role in the Cato Street Conspiracy against Lord Liverpool's government in 1820.On 1 May 1820, outside Newgate Prison, in front of a huge crowd of onlookers, William Davidson and his fellow Cato Street conspirators—Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, Richard Tidd and John Brunt— were hanged for high treason.
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may 1, 1820
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~ 206 years ago