23. Star Wars Came Out in 1977—The Same Year of the Last Guillotine Execution in France
The same year that the world was introduced to a galaxy far, far away in Star Wars, France had its final guillotine execution. Hamida Djandoubi was beheaded on September 10, 1977 for the murder of a 21-year-old woman. It would be the last time France utilized the method because the practice was abolished in 1981.