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Gavril Myasnikov Executed (1945)Nov 16th, 1945
Gavril Ilyich Myasnikov was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and later left communist dissident who was executed by the USSR on this day in 1945, after accepting an invitation from the French Soviet embassy to return to the USSR.
Salvadoran Jesuits Murdered (1989)Nov 16th, 1989
On this day in 1989, during the Salvadoran Civil War, Salvadoran soldiers killed six Jesuits and two others on the campus of Central American University in San Salvador and attempted to frame the act on leftist rebels.