1879 Birthday Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer, IWW, songwriter, Union Scab, martyr 1770 Death Christopher Snider, 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of U.S. Revolution 1567 Death Pereguin de la Grange, French minister/martyr of Reform, dies 1540 Birthday Edmund Campion, London, saint/Jesuit martyr, Decem Rationes 1528 Death Patrick Hamilton, Scottish protestant martyr, burned at stake 1524 Death Henry Van Zutphen, Dutch protestant martyr, burned at stake 1489 Birthday Thomas Cranmer, England, archbishop/reformer/martyr 1412 Birthday Joan of Arc, Domremy, martyr 1401 Death William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London 1252 Death Peter of Verona, Peter Martyr, Italian inquisitor/st, dies at 45 978 Death Edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15 309 Death Pamphilus van Caesarea, Palestinian scholar/martyr, beheaded 155 Death Pius I, bishop of Rome (approx 140-155)/saint/martyr, dies
