... 1542, Catherine Howard was beheaded for adultery at the
Tower of London. Of this queen (below right), the 5th of 6 wives
of the English King Henry VIII, this website writes: Catherine
Howard did not have an impact upon English history. She is
perhaps the most inconsequential of Henry VIII's six wives, her
reign as queen a very brief eighteen months. She bore no
children and made no lasting impression upon those who knew her.
But it should be remembered that she was thirty years younger
than her husband, a silly young girl who never understood the
dangers of royal regard. Her life was over before it had truly
begun; we can only wonder how it might have ended
differently.Not a word of fault found with the fatally fickle
king. ... 1961, officials in the province of Katanga announced
that the man who'd served from June to September 1960 as Congo's
1st Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba, was dead. It was claimed
that Lumumba (below left) had been "killed by villagers trying
to take him into custody"; however, yea