This Date in History: August 30

The 7th Cavalry Regiment returned to Fort Abraham Lincoln on August 30, 1874 ending the Black Hills Expedition.  (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)

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Private John Sivertsen, Company M, 7th Cavalry died on August 30, 1925 at the Old Soldiers’ Home in Washington, DC.  (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)

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On Monday, August 30, 1943, ordered by General Dwight Eisenhower to be the official executioner, Brigadier General Joseph V. DePaul Dillon hanged U.S. Army privates Willie A. Pittman, Harvey L. Stroud, Armstead White and David White at Termini, Sicily for the crime of rape.  (The Fifth Field: The Story of the 96 American Soldiers Sentenced to Death and Executed in Europe and North Africa in World War II)

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Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, Army General of Infantry, born February 2, 1886 in Berlin, commander of the 17th Army, Military Governor of Occupied France, winner of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, member of the July 20, 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, attempted an unsuccessful suicide, sentenced to death by the People’s Court, executed by hanging on August 30, 1944 in Plötzensee Prison in Berlin, on executing hostages: “The better known the hostages to be shot, the greater will be the deterrent effect on the perpetrators.”  (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)