The gallows were dismantled after Austin's execution. Future public hangings were now conducted on a scaffold named the 'new drop' outside Newgate Prison. (7 November 1783)
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Wednesday 7th of February 1979 (-) — Nazi doctor and anthropologist Josef Mengele suffers a stroke while swimming and drowns. Mengele was buried in Embu das Artes under the name Wolfgang Gerhard, whose identification card he had been using since 1971. The remains were exhumed on 6 June 1985 and extensive forensic examination confirmed with a high degree of probability that the body was Mengele's.