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Martyr
1879 Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer, IWW, /songwriter, Union Scab, /martyr

1770 Christopher Snider, 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of U.S. Revolution

1567 Pereguin de la Grange, French minister/martyr of Reform, dies

1540 Edmund Campion, London, saint/Jesuit martyr, Decem Rationes

1528 Patrick Hamilton, Scottish protestant martyr, burned at stake

1524 Henry Van Zutphen, Dutch protestant martyr, burned at stake

1489 Thomas Cranmer, England, archbishop/reformer/martyr

1412 Joan of Arc, Domremy, martyr

1401 William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London

1252 Peter of Verona, [Peter Martyr], Italian inquisitor/st, dies at 45

978 Edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15

309 Pamphilus van Caesarea, Palestinian scholar/martyr, beheaded

155 Pius I, bishop of Rome (approx 140-155)/saint/martyr, dies



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