As History.com notes, on this day in 1944 Soviet spy Richard Sorge was hanged by the Imperial Japanese.
You can read about Richard Sorge via the below link:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviet-master-spy-is-hanged-by-the-japanese?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2016-1107-11072016&om_rid=de5e4076c942a595dbda53f758321d197499484f6d117f61b6ac5c08e0d6f0aa&om_mid=106437461&kx_EmailCampaignID=7970&kx_EmailCampaignName=email-hist-tdih-2016-1107-11072016&kx_EmailRecipientID=de5e4076c942a595dbda53f758321d197499484f6d117f61b6ac5c08e0d6f0aa
And if you would like to read more about Richard Sorge and his Japanese spy ring, I suggest you read Gordon W. Prange's Target Tokyo: The Story of the Sorge Spy Ring.
