Wild West train robber Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum on the gallows. He was the only person hanged in the history of Union County, New Mexico Territory, the executioners were inexperienced and used too long a rope, which caused his head to be ripped off when he dropped. 26 April 1901
On this date in 1876, Native American forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn near southern Montana’s Little Bighorn River.