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1959: Buddhist Monk who Shot Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike

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1959: Buddhist Monk who Shot Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike

Solomon Bandaranaike, a Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, was assassinated by a Buddhist monk on this day in 1 ...

Solomon Bandaranaike, a Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, was assassinated by a Buddhist monk on this day in 1959. The monk Talduwe Somarama was persuaded to do so due to the conspirators who wanted the de ...

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1973: One of the Most Unusual and Violent Assassination Attempts in History

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1973: One of the Most Unusual and Violent Assassination Attempts in History

On this day in 1973 the terrorist group ETA carried out one of the most unusual assassinations in history ...

On this day in 1973 the terrorist group ETA carried out one of the most unusual assassinations in history. They killed none other than the Spanish prime minister – the powerful Admiral Luis Carrero Bl ...

December 20, 2015
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1918: Fanny Kaplan Shoots Vladimir Lenin

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1918: Fanny Kaplan Shoots Vladimir Lenin

On this day Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was grievously wounded in an assassination attempt. Interestingly, the ...

On this day Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was grievously wounded in an assassination attempt. Interestingly, the attempt was carried out by a woman, Fanny Kaplan. Kaplan was born to a Jewish family in the Vol ...

August 30, 2015
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1981: Assassination Attempt on Pope St. John Paul II

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1981: Assassination Attempt on Pope St. John Paul II

On this day, at St. Peter’s Square in Rome, an assassination attempt on Pope St. John Paul II took place, ...

On this day, at St. Peter’s Square in Rome, an assassination attempt on Pope St. John Paul II took place, precisely on the anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady of Fatima, who back in 1917 a ...

May 13, 2015
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1865: Details about the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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1865: Details about the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

On this day one of the most famous assassinations in history took place. John Wilkes Booth shot U.S. Pres ...

On this day one of the most famous assassinations in history took place. John Wilkes Booth shot U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on Good Friday in 1865. On that eve ...

April 14, 2015
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