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Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a coup attempt that fails. |
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King George of Greece is assassinated. |
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A team of British-trained agents of the Czechoslovak government in exile in London assassinates Reinhard Heydrich, The Butcher of Prague. |
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Iraq Deputy Foreign Minister Bassam Salih Kubba is assassinated in an ambush in front of his Baghdad home. It is the second attempted assassination of a senior Iraqi official since the announcement of the interim government. |
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Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi. |
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Gunmen ambush and kill the security chief for a state-run Iraqi oil company in Kirkuk. |
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Aung San and six of his cabinet members are assassinated in Rangoon, Burma. |
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Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from infection on September 19, 1881. |
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Paul Khlebnikov, the editor for the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, is assassinated in north-eastern Moscow. In May of 2004, the periodical issued a list of Russia's oil magnates and metals tycoons. The list revealed Moscow to be the city with the world's most billionaires. |
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Agents of Israel's Mossad murder Moroccan waiter, Ahmed Boushiki, in Lillehammer, Norway. Mossad agents mistake him for Ali Hassan Salameh, the leader of the Palestinian Black September Organization responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. |
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Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by Claus von Stauffenberg, when a conference table protects him from a briefcase bomb. |
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King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem. |
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler makes an announcement on German radio pledging that "accounts will be settled," following the attempt on his life the day before. |
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Mary Stuart's second husband, Henry, Lord Darnley, is murdered at Kirk o'Field, just outside the walls of Edinburgh. Many implicate her in the crime. |
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Yet another attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler failes at the German Heroes Day celebration. |
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Brig. Gen. Mussab al-Awadi, who directed tribal affairs for the new Iraqi government, is killed in a drive-by shooting along with two of his bodyguards. |
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Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci assassinates King Umberto I of Italy at Monza. |
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During celebrations in honor of France's Bastille Day, French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt by single gunmen with a rifle concealed in a guitar case. |
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Samuel de Champlain shoots two Iroquois chiefs to death near Crown Point, NY. |
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Afghanistan's tourism minister Abdul Rahman is beaten to death at the Kabul airport. His assassination is approveed by Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar. |
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In the Netherlands, politician Pim Fortuyn is killed by Volkert van der Graaf. |
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One day after Iraqi officials declared that elections would be held on Jan. 30 in spite of rising violence, gunmen assassinate a member of an influential Sunni clerics' group that has called for a boycott of national elections. Sheik Faidh Mohamed Amin, who was a member of the Assn. of Muslim Schol ... |
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Sheikh Ghaleb al-Zuheir, a Sunni cleric, is assassinated by masked gunmen in northern Baghdad, only a day after Sheikh Feydhi Mohammed al-Feydhi was killed in Mosul. The Muslim Clerics Association previously said that its members are being targeted by U.S., Iraqi forces and also by rebels, in an at ... |
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Gunmen assassinate Kassim Imhawi, a senior official in Iraq's communication ministry as he is driving to work in central Baghdad. The Associated Press reported that Eight of Mr Imhawi's bodyguard were injured in the attack, in the Jamia district of Baghdad. |
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Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri is killed in Beirut when a car bomb explodes as his motorcade passes by the St. Georges Hotel in the exclusive sea-front section of the city. The "Group for Victory and Holy War in the Levant" claimed responsibility and suggested that al-Hariri's ties ... |
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In a drunken shooting spree at the Royal Palace of Nepal, Crown Prince Dipendra kills his father King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya and other family members. He then wounds himself and will die a few days later. |
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Roman Catholic Missionary Dorothy Stang, 74, is shot dead by hired gunmen near the jungle town of Anapu, Brazil. She had fought for decades to protect the rain forest and its people from illegal logging. Stang, who is from Dayton Ohio, was murdered despite constant warnings to authorities that she ... |
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In a massive failure of security, a judge and an attorney are shot and killed by gunmen outside their home in Adhamiy, a Sunni neighborhood. Seven Iraqi police officers are killed in various attacks. The US Media mistakenly reports that the judge that will try Saddam has been killed. NBC News, thi ... |
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Police 1st Lt. Mohammed Kheyoun announces that gunmen assassinated a member of former Prime Minster Ayad Allawi’s secular Shiite Iraqi National List in Baghdad, |
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Gunmen kill the son of Iraq’s top judge as the country’s newly designated Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki struggles to form a national unity government. A May 22nd constitutional deadline to form the new Cabinet is rapidly approaching. |
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