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23rd May 1701: Captain Kidd, the Scottish privateer, executed in London after being convicted of piracy and murder
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Kidd was executed for piracy and murder at Execution Dock on the River Thames, and his body was subsequently placed in gibbet and displayed over the River Thames at Tilbury ...
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