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Image: Print of the execution of Maximilian in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico. June 19, 1867. (Public Domain)
On this day in history, Austrian Archduke Ferdinand, installed as Emperor of Mexico by French Emperor Napoleon III in 1864, is executed in Queretaro, Mexico, at 6:40 a.m. by order of Benito Juarez, the president of the Mexican Republic.
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