On 23 February 1885 three attempts were made to carry out Lee's execution. All ended in failure as the trapdoor of the scaffold failed to open despite being carefully tested by executioner James Berry beforehand. As a result Home Secretary Sir William Harcourt commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. (18 December 1907)
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Wednesday 11th of December 1968 (x) — Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 29. Aktion für das Westdeutsche Fernsehen in the studio of Otto Dresler. Nitsch' 29. Aktion für das Westdeutsche Fernsehen lasted five hours.