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1850
Mar 29 |
Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide Sinks in Storm; 200 Die |
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1854
Apr 16 |
Steamer Long Beach Sinks off Long Beach NY: 311 die |
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1865
Apr 27 |
Steamer Sultana Explodes on Mississippi River, 1,400 Union Prisoners of War Die |
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1873
Apr 01 |
Steamer Atlantic' Sinks off Nova Scotia: 481 Die |
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1881
May 24 |
Canadian Ferry Princess Victoria Sinks: 200 die |
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1883
May 30 |
Rumor Brooklyn Bridge Is Collapsing Creates Stampede: 12 die |
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1895
Mar 11 |
Spanish Cruiser Reina Regenta Sinks at Gibraltar, 400 Die |
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1897
Sept 23 |
9-year-old Stephen Kempton Is First Recorded Traffic Fatality in Great Britain |
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1898
Feb 13 |
First British Automobile Fatality |
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1899
Sept 13 |
Henry Bliss of New York Is First Recorded Automobile Fatality |
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1900
Apr 30 |
Casey Jones Dies in a Train Wreck Near Vaughan, Mississippi |
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1904
Sept 24 |
62 Die in Tennessee Head-on Train Collision |
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1907
Dec 06 |
361 Killed in Mongah, WV Mine Disaster |
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1907
Dec 19 |
Pennsylvania Coal Mine Explosion Kills 239 |
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1908
Mar 04 |
Primary School Catches Fire in Collingwood, OH: 180 Die |
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1908
Sept 17 |
Thomas Selfridge Is the First Airplane Fatality: Orville Wright Survives |
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1911
Mar 25 |
New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Catches Fire: 146 Die |
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1911
May 25 |
Fire Sweeps through New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory: 146 die |
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1912
Mar 05 |
Spanish Steamer Principe de Asturias Sinks NE of Spain: 500 die |
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1912
Apr 15 |
Titanic Sinks in North Atlantic off Coast of Newfoundland |
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1913
Oct 17 |
Zeppelin LII Explodes over London, Killing 28 |
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1915
Mar 18 |
French Battleship Bouvet Explodes, 640 Killed |
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1917
Dec 06 |
French Warship Mont Blanc & Freighter Collide: 2000 Dead, 9000 Injured |
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1920
Mar 18 |
Steamer Hong Kong Runs Aground Off Swatow, China: 1,000 Die |
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1924
Mar 08 |
Coal Mine Explosion Kills 171 at Castle Gate, UT |
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1927
Jan 09 |
77 Children Die in Montreal Movie Theater Fire |
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1933
Apr 04 |
U.S. Dirigible Akron Crashes Off Coast of NJ: 73 Die |
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1934
Sept 08 |
Fire Aboard the Liner Morro Castle Off the New Jersey Coast Claims 134 Lives |
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1937
May 06 |
Hindenburg Dirigible Explodes at Lakehurst, New Jersey: 36 die |
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1940
Apr 19 |
Lake Shore Ltd Railroad Derails Killing 34 Near Little Falls, NY |
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1942
Apr 26 |
Mine Explosion Kills 1,549 in Honkeiko Manchuria |
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1942
Aug 25 |
War Mission Plane Crash Kills Duke of Kent, Brother of King George VI |
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1944
Dec 15 |
Airplane Carrying Bandleader Glenn Miller Disappears en Route to Paris |
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1946
Apr 25 |
Naperville, IL Train Crash Kills 45 |
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1951
Feb 06 |
New Jersey Train Crash Kills 84 |
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1953
Nov 17 |
20 Italian Sailors Die when Two Boats Collide in the English Channel |
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1956
Jan 22 |
30 Die in Los Angeles Train Crash |
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1958
Oct 23 |
74 Die in Springhill, Nova Scotia Mine Explosion |
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1960
Dec 16 |
United DC-8 & TWA Super Constellation Collide over New York City: 134 Die |
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1963
Apr 10 |
U.S. Nuclear Sub Thresher Sinks 220 Miles East of Boston |
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1963
Oct 10 |
Dam Bursts in Italy Killing 3,000 |
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1967
Jan 27 |
Apollo Astronauts Grissom, Chaffee and White Perish in Capsule Flash Fire |
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1967
Oct 02 |
First Black Astronaut Dies in Crash Before First Mission |
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1967
Dec 15 |
Silver Bridge Between Point Pleasant, WV, and Gallipolis, OH, Collapses: 46 Die |
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1969
Apr 27 |
Bolivian President Rene Barrientos Ortuno Is Killed in Helicopter Crash |
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1972
Oct 06 |
Train Wreck Near Saltillo, Mexico Kills 208 passengers - 1,200+ Injured |
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1973
Sept 20 |
Singer Jim Croce Killed in Texas Plane Crash |
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1973
Nov 13 |
Jerry Lee Lewis Is Killed in a Car Accident |
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1974
Mar 03 |
Turkish Airlines DC-10 Crashes after Takeoff from Paris: Nearly 350 Die |
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1977
Mar 27 |
Two Boeing 747s Collide on Canary Island Runway: 542 Die |
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1977
Oct 20 |
Three Members Lynyrd Skynyrd Rock Band Killed in Mississippi Plane Crash |
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1978
Apr 15 |
Express Trains Collide Head-on in Bologna, Italy: 43 die |
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1979
May 25 |
DC-10 Crashes on Takeoff At Chicago's O'Hare International Airport Kills 270+ |
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1979
Dec 03 |
11 Dead, 8 Injured, at Who Concert in Cincinnati |
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1980
May 09 |
Freighter Rams Florida's Sunshine Skyway Bridge: 35 die |
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1980
Nov 21 |
87 Die in MGM Grand Hotel Fire Las Vegas |
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1981
Feb 10 |
Fire At the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel-Casino: 8 die, 198 injured |
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1981
May 26 |
U.S. Marine Jet Crashes onto Flight Deck of USS Nimitz Aircraft Carrier Killing 14 |
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1982
Jan 13 |
737 Crashes into the Potomac after Take-off From Washington, D.C.: 78 die |
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1982
Sept 30 |
Sixth and Final Chicago Victim Dies from Cyanide-laced Tylenol |
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1983
May 25 |
Three Vessels Catch Fire on Egypt's Nile River: More Than 300 Die |
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1984
Nov 19 |
Almost 500 Die in Mexico City Petroleum Explosions |
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1984
Dec 02 |
Union Carbide's Bhopal, India, Methyl Isocyanate Facility Leaks: 4000+ |
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1985
May 11 |
52 Soccer Fans Die When Fire Sweeps England's Bradford Stadium |
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1985
Aug 25 |
13-year-old Schoolgirl Diplomat Samantha Smith & Father Killed in Plane Crash |
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1986
Jan 28 |
Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes 72 Seconds after Takeoff |
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1991
May 26 |
Austrian Lauda-Air Boeing 767 Crashes After Stopover in Bangkok, Killing 223 |
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1991
Dec 15 |
Ferry Salem Express Hits Coral Reef 375 Miles SE of Cairo, Egypt: 474 Die |
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1992
Apr 27 |
Zambia's National Soccer Team Perishes in Air Crash Off the Coast of Gabon |
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1994
Mar 23 |
Russian Airbus Crashes in Siberia Killing All 75 Aboard |
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1994
Apr 06 |
The Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi Are Killed in a Plane Crash |
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1994
Sept 08 |
USAir Boeing 737 Crashes on Approach to Pittsburgh: All 132 on Board Die. |
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1994
Oct 20 |
Land Mine Explosion Kills Tajikistan's Deputy Prime Minister |
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1996
May 11 |
Atlanta-bound ValuJet Crashes into Everglades Shortly after Miami Takeoff: 110 Die |
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1998
Sept 02 |
A Swissair Jetliner Crashes Off Nova Scotia, Killing All 229 Aboard |
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1999
Nov 18 |
Twelve Killed When Bonfire Construction Collapses at Texas A&M University |
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2000
Jan 31 |
Alaska Airlines Plane Crashes in S. California. All 88 on Board Die |
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2000
Nov 11 |
Austrian Cable Car Catches Fire: 155 Skiers Die |
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2001
Feb 09 |
U.S. Navy Submarine Collides with Japanese Fishing Boat Near Hawaii: 9 Die |
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2001
Aug 25 |
22-year-old R&B Singer Aaliyah Among 9 Killed in Bahama Plane Crash |
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2002
May 26 |
Oklahoma Interstate Bridge Struck by Barge Collapsing into Arkansas River: 14 Die |
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2003
Feb 01 |
Space Shuttle STS-107 (Columbia) Disintegrates Upon Re-entry: All Aboard Perish |
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2004
Apr 22 |
North Korean Train Accident Kills and Injures More Than 2,000 |
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1838
Oct 31 |
Mob Attacks Mormon Camp in Missouri: 20 Killed |
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1855
Sept 03 |
General Harney Avenges Grattan Massacre with Sioux Village Attack |
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1857
Sept 11 |
Mormons and Paiutes Murder a Wagon Train of 120 |
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1862
Aug 19 |
Dakota Indians Kill 17 Townspeople in New Ulm, MN |
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1868
Sept 17 |
Cheyenne and Sioux Decimate Frontiersmen in Colorado Attack |
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1870
Jan 23 |
U.S. Cavalry Unit Massacres Village of 173 Blackfoot Indians |
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1871
May 18 |
Kiowa Chief Satanta Leads Massacre of Wagon Train Near the Texas Red River |
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1876
Nov 25 |
Troops Destroy Village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife, Retaliate for Little Bighorn |
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1880
Oct 15 |
Chiricahua Apache Leader Victorio Killed South of El Paso |
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1885
Aug 29 |
28 Chinese Miners Murdered by White Co-workers in Rock Springs, Wyoming |
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1895
Aug 19 |
Off-duty El Paso Policeman Kills John Wesley Hardin |
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1521
Apr 27 |
Portuguese Explorer Ferdinand Magellan Is Killed In the Philippines |
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1610
May 14 |
French King Henri IV Assassinated by Fanatical Monk |
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1881
Mar 13 |
Tsar Alexander II Assassinated by Bomb Thrown at Him |
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1920
Mar 08 |
Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Assassinated in Madrid |
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1921
Nov 04 |
Japan Prime Minister, Takashi Hara, Assassinated by Conservative Fanatic |
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1934
Oct 09 |
King Alexander of Yugoslavia Is Assassinated in France |
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1934
Dec 01 |
Stalin Collaborator, Sergei M. Kirov, Assassinated in Leningrad |
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1948
Jan 30 |
Mohandas Gandhi Is Assassinated |
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1963
Nov 22 |
President John F. Kennedy Is Assassinated in Dallas, Texas |
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1965
Feb 21 |
Malcolm X (Nebraska-born Civil Rights/Human Rights Activist: Assassination) |
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1967
Aug 25 |
George Lincoln Rockwell, Leader of the American Nazi Party, Is Shot and Killed |
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1968
Apr 4 |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Georgia-born African-American Civil Rights Leader: Assassination) |
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1968
Jun 6 |
Robert F. Kennedy (Massachusetts-born Politician Shot in Los Angeles After Winning the California Presidential Primary) |
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1969
Feb 03 |
Mozambique President Mondlane Assassinated by Secret Police Mail Bomb |
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1974
Aug 19 |
U.S. Ambassador Rodger P. Davies Is Killed at American Embassy in Cyprus |
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1979
Aug 27 |
Earl Mountbatten Killed by Irish Republican Army (IRA) Bomb Planted on Boat |
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1981
Sept 17 |
Indoneasian Army Assassinates East Timor Resistance Party President |
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1981
Oct 06 |
Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat Assassinated Reviewing Military Parade |
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1982
Aug 27 |
A Turkish Military Attache Is Assassinated in Canada by Armenian Extremists |
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1983
Aug 21 |
Filipino Opposition Leader Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. Assassinated at Manila Airport |
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1984
Oct 31 |
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi Is Assassinated by Her Own Sikh Bodyguards |
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1985
Aug 28 |
Colombia Government Troops Kill April 19 Movement (M-19) Leader Ivan Ospina |
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1986
Feb 28 |
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme Is Assassinated in Stockholm |
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1986
Nov 17 |
Head of Renault Car Company, Georges Besse, Is Assassinated in Paris |
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1988
Mar 16 |
Attempted Assassination of IRA Leaders at a Funeral Fails, but 3 Others Killed |
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1989
Nov 22 |
Lebanon's Newly-elected President, Rene Muawad, Is Assassinated |
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1991
Jan 15 |
Three High-ranking Officers of the PLO Are Assassinated in Tunisia |
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1991
Feb 16 |
Enrique Bermudez, Former Nicaraguan Contra Leader, Assassinated in Managua |
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1991
May 21 |
Suicide Bomber Assassinates Former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi |
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1994
Mar 23 |
Mexican Presidential Candidiate, Luis Donaldo Colosio, Is Assassinated in Tijuana |
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1995
Nov 04 |
Israeli Conservative Extremeist Assassinates Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin |
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1996
Jan 05 |
Islamic Terrorist Mastermind Yahya Ayyash Killed with Booby-trapped Cell Phone |
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1556
Mar 21 |
Archbishop of Canterbury Is Burned At the Stake |
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1831
Nov 11 |
Nat Turner Hanged in Jerusalem, VA for Leading Violent Slave Insurrection |
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1859
Dec 02 |
Abolitionist John Brown Is Hanged for His Raid on Harper's Ferry |
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1859
Dec 16 |
2 of 5 African-Americans Participants Are Hanged for the Harper's Ferry Raid |
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1862
Dec 06 |
Lincoln Orders the Hanging of 39 Sioux Convicted of Minnesota Uprising |
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1917
Oct 15 |
French Execute Dutch-born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle (Mata Hari) for Spying |
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1927
Aug 23 |
Nicola Sacco and Bartolemeo Vanzetti Are Executed |
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1934
Dec 05 |
Soviets Execute 66 for Plotting Against Stalin |
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1936
Aug 25 |
16 Opponents of Josef Stalin Are Executed in Russia Following 5-day Trial |
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1944
Nov 07 |
Richard Sorge, Soviet Spymaster, Hanged in Japan |
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1945
Jan 31 |
Pvt. Eddie Slovik Only American Executed for Desertion in WWII |
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1945
Oct 15 |
Vichy French Premier Pierre Laval Executed for German Collaboration |
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1950
Jan 12 |
Soviet Union Re-Introduced the Death Penalty for Treason, Espionage and Sabotage |
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1977
Feb 03 |
Leaders of Ethiopia's Provisional Military Government Are Executed |
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1982
Sept 15 |
Iran's Former Foreign Minister, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Executed for Treason |
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1982
Dec 08 |
Fifteen Opponents of Suriname's Military Regime are Executed Without Trial |
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1995
Mar 07 |
New York Is 38th State to Adopt the Death Penalty |
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1995
Nov 10 |
Nigerian Government Executes Civil Rights Activist Ken Saro-Wiwa |
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1865
Apr 26 |
John Wilkes Booth Is Shot and Dies in a Burning Barn |
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1881
Apr 30 |
Billy the Kid Kills Two Deputies, Escapes Mesilla, NM Jail |
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1914
Apr 20 |
Colorado Militia Massacre Striking Coal Miners and Their Families |
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1929
Feb 14 |
St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Capone's Gang Murders 7 Rivals |
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1946
May 02 |
Five Die in Alcatraz Prison Revolt |
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1946
May 04 |
Two-day Riot at San Francisco's Alcatraz Prison Leaves Five People Dead |
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1969
Apr 17 |
Sirhan Sirhan Convicted for the Murder of Robert F. Kennedy |
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1970
Jan 05 |
Body of Murdered Mine Labor Leader, Jock Yablonski Found in PA Farmhouse |
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1971
Sept 13 |
Four-Day Attica State Prison Riot Ends: 37 Dead |
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1976
Mar 29 |
Ohio Guardsmen Indicted for Shooting Kent State Students |
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1978
Nov 27 |
San Francisco Mayor George Moscone Is Murdered |
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1981
Mar 07 |
Disneyland's First Homicide: 18 year old Is Stabbed to Death |
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1993
Apr 19 |
FBI Storms Branch Dividian Compound in Waco, TX: 80 die |
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1995
Apr 19 |
Bomb Destroys Oklahoma City Federal Building: 168 die |
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1997
Mar 12 |
Police Arrest Suspect for Fatal Shooting of Enis Cosby |
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1997
Dec 12 |
Student Shoots 8 Classmates in Paducah, KY: 3 Die |
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1998
Mar 16 |
Rwanda Mass Murder Trials Begin for 1994 Genocide That Killed 500,000 |
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1999
Apr 20 |
Two Teenage Gunmen Kill 13 People at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO |
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2001
May 02 |
Klansman Convicted of 1963 Bombing of 16th St. Baptist Church, Birmingham, AL |
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2002
Mar 02 |
Palestinian Suicide Bomber Kills 11 Israelis in Jerusalem |
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1918
Oct 22 |
Baltimore & Washington Run Out of Coffins Due to Influenza Pandemic |
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1991
Dec 08 |
Florida's Kimberly Bergalis Dies of AIDS Contracted from Her Dentist |
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1997
Feb 02 |
U.S. Government Statistics Indicate Dramatic Decrease in AIDs-related Deaths |
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1349
Feb 14 |
2,000 Jews burned at the stake in Strasbourg France |
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1526
Apr 22 |
Slaves Revolt in Stono, SC - Dozens Die - Black & White |
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1527
May 06 |
Mercenaries Sack Rome, Kill 4,000, Imprison Pope, Steal Art |
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1622
Mar 22 |
Powhattan Indians Massacre 347 Jamestown Settlers |
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1836
Mar 27 |
Mexican Army Executes 417 Texas Revolutionaries at Goliad |
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1847
Jan 19 |
Mexican Rebels Kill New Mexico's Governor, Charles Bent |
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1886
May 04 |
Haymarket Square Riot Breaks Out in Chicago: 8 Policemen Die |
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1889
May 10 |
Riot in New York City's Astor Place Opera House Leaves 22 Dead |
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1898
Nov 10 |
2,000 White Supremists Burn Black Businesses & Kill 9 in Willmington, NC |
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1901
Sept 19 |
New York Stock Exchange Closes to Honor Death of President McKinley |
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1905
Jan 22 |
Czar's Troops Slaughter Hundreds of Peaceful Labor Protestors |
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1911
Sept 18 |
Russian Premier Piotr Stolypin Dies Four Days after Being Shot |
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1916
Mar 09 |
Pancho Villa Leads Mexican Raid on Columbus, NM, Killing More Than a Dozen |
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1916
Dec 16 |
Noblemen Murder Russian Monk Gregory Rasputin |
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1919
May 04 |
Chinese Students Protest Treaty of Versailles Extending Japanese Influence |
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1919
May 10 |
Charleston, SC Race Riot Leaves Two African-Americans Dead |
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1927
Nov 21 |
Colorado Police Kill 5 Striking Mine Workers |
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1937
Dec 13 |
Japanese Begin Slaughter of 200,000 Chinese in Nanking |
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1941
Jan 22 |
First Mass Killing of Jews in Romania |
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1941
Aug 18 |
Hitler Suspends Euthanasia of Mentally Ill and Handicapped |
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1941
Aug 28 |
NAZI Gestapo Slaughters 23,000 Hungarian Jews in Ukraine |
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1941
Sept 29 |
Nazis Complete 2-day Slaughter of 33,000 Russian Jews at Babi Yar |
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1942
Mar 11 |
First Deportation Train Leaves Paris for Auschewitz |
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1944
Mar 27 |
2,000 Jews Murdered in Kaunas, Lithuania |
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1944
Oct 10 |
800 Gypsy Children Gassed to Death at Auschwitz |
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1944
Dec 13 |
Japanese Kamikaze Strikes USS Nashville: 138 Killed |
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1947
Feb 28 |
Troops of Chiang Kai-Shek Massacre Taiwan Citizen Protesters: 30,000 die |
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1947
Mar 29 |
Thousands Die in Madagascar Uprising Against the French |
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1952
Jan 26 |
At Least 20 Killed in Anti-British Riots in Cairo, Egypt |
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1955
Aug 20 |
Anti-French Riots in Morocco & Algiers Leave Hundreds Dead |
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1956
Dec 08 |
Troops Fire on 4,000 Hungarian Demonstrators in Salgotarjan: 47 Die, 80 Wounded |
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1960
Mar 21 |
Police Murder 70 Protesters in Sharpeville, S. Africa |
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1963
Sept 15 |
Birmingham, AL Black 16th St. Baptist Church Bombed: 4 Young Girls Die |
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1968
Apr 06 |
U.S. Erupts in Racial Violence 2 Days after Dr. King's Assassination: Several Die |
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1970
May 04 |
Four Kent State University Students Are Killed During Anti-War Demonstration |
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1970
Oct 17 |
Quebec Cabinet Minister Found Murdered by FLQ Terrorists |
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1972
Jan 30 |
British Forces Kill 13 in Londonderry, N. Ireland Demonstration |
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1972
Mar 21 |
Khmer Rouge Shell Phnom Penh: 100 Civilians Die |
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1973
Sept 11 |
Chilean President Salvador Allende Killed in Military Coup |
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1976
Sept 26 |
Abu Nidal Terrorists Take 90 Hostages at a Damascus Hotel: 4 Hostages and All Terrorists die |
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1977
Mar 09 |
Hanafi Muslims Take 130 Hostages in Three Washington D.C. Buildings, Kill One |
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1977
Mar 11 |
34 Israelis Killed by Palestinians on the Tel Aviv-Haifa Highway |
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1977
Sept 05 |
Red Army Faction (RAF) Terrorists Kidnap and Kill West German Executive |
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1977
Sept 12 |
South African Student Leader Steven Biko Dies in Prison |
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1978
Mar 11 |
Terrorists Attack Mail Truck in Tel Aviv, 45 Die |
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1978
May 04 |
South African Forces Attack the Namibian Town of Cassinga, Killing Hundreds |
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1978
Sept 09 |
Shah's Troops Open Fire on Iranian Protesters: Hundreds Killed |
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1979
Mar 30 |
Northern Ireland Secretary Airey Neave Killed by a Car Bomb |
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1981
May 05 |
Irish Republican Army's Bobby Sands Dies on 66th Day of Prison Hunger Strike |
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1982
Sept 15 |
Lebanese Christians Kill Hundreds of Palestinian Refugees in Camp Nar Beirut |
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| Iran's Former Foreign Minister, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Executed for Treason |
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1983
Apr 18 |
Suicide Bomber Kills 63 at US Embassy in Lebanon |
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1983
Sept 23 |
Bomb Destroys Omani Aircraft In Flight: 111 die |
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1983
Oct 09 |
21 Burmese and Korean Officials Killed in Rangoon by North Korean Bomb |
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1983
Oct 23 |
Islamic Jihad Bombings Kill 241 U.S. Marines & 58 French Paratroopers |
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1983
Nov 04 |
Arab Suicide Bomber Kills 40 Israeli Soldier in Lebanon |
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1983
Dec 05 |
West Beirut Car Bomb Kills More Than a Dozen |
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1984
Apr 14 |
U.S. Diplomat Dennis Keough Is Killed in Namibia by a Booby Trap Bomb |
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1984
Sept 20 |
Terrorist Van Explodes in Front of U.S. Embassy, Lebanon: 14 die |
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1985
Oct 08 |
Palestinian Hijackers of the Achille Lauro Kill a Wheelchair-bound American |
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1985
Nov 03 |
Two French Secret Agents Plead Guilty to Bombing Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior |
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1985
Nov 24 |
Egyptian Commandos Storm Hijacked Egyptair Jetliner in Malta: 60 die |
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1986
Sept 15 |
Bomb In Paris Main Police Headquarters Kills 1, Wounds 51 |
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1987
May 17 |
Iraqi Jet Attacks U.S.S. Stark: 37 American Sailors Die |
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1988
Mar 19 |
Two British Soldiers Are Lynched in Belfast, Northern Ireland |
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1989
Feb 16 |
Bomb Inside Cassette Player Cause of Pan Am Explosion over Scotland |
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1989
Sept 19 |
Bomb Destroys UTA flight 772 in the Air over Niger: all on board die |
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1990
Oct 08 |
18 Arabs Died in Clashes with Israeli Police at Temple Mount Religious Site |
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1991
Feb 25 |
US Barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia Hit by SCUD Missile: 28 Die |
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1991
May 21 |
Suicide Bomber Assassinates Former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi |
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1991
Oct 08 |
Slave Burial Site Unearthed in Manhattan |
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1995
Feb 25 |
Bomb Attack on Train in Assam India (27 Soldiers Killed) |
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1995
Apr 19 |
Bomb Destroys Oklahoma City Federal Building: 168 die |
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1996
Jan 31 |
Truck of Explosives Rams Sri Lanka Central Bank: 86 Die |
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1996
Feb 23 |
Relatives Murder the Husbands of Saddam Hussein's Two Daughters |
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1997
Aug 25 |
East German Leader, Egon Krenz, Sentenced for Murders of German Citizens |
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1997
Nov 17 |
Six Militants Kill 62 at Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt: Police Kill Attackers |
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1998
Nov 03 |
CIA Missile Kills Top al-Qaida Operative in Yemen |
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1998
Nov 05 |
U.N. Announces Taliban Killing of 5,000 Civilians While Capturing Town |
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1999
May 07 |
NATO Jet Mistakenly Bombs the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade: 3 die |
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2001
Sept 11 |
Terrorist Attacks Destroy Both NYC World Trade Towers: 3,748 die |
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2001
Dec 01 |
Two Suicide Bombers Kill 12 in Downtown Jerusalem Pedestrian Mall |
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2002
Mar 02 |
Palestinian Suicide Bomber Kills 11 Israelis in Jerusalem |
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2002
Mar 20 |
Lima, Peru Car Bomb Kills 9 in Advance Visit by President Bush |
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526
May 20 |
Earthquake Hits Syria: 250,000 die |
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1531
Feb 26 |
Earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal Kills 20,000 |
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1669
Mar 11 |
Mt. Etna Erupts, Killing 15,000 |
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1669
Mar 25 |
Sicily's Mount Etna Erupts: 20,000 Die |
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1703
Nov 26 |
Britain's "Great Storm" Kills 8,000, Destroys the Eddystone Lighthouse |
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1755
Nov 01 |
Earthquake Kills 50,000+ in Lisbon, Portugal |
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1783
Feb 05 |
Earthquake Kills 50,000 in Calabria |
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1797
Feb 04 |
Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador Kills 40,000 |
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1812
Mar 26 |
Venezuela Earthquake Destroys Most of Caracas: 20,000 Die |
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1840
May 07 |
Tornado Strikes Natchex, MS: 300 die |
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1850
Mar 29 |
Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide Sinks in Storm; 200 Die |
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1859
Mar 21 |
Earthquake Hits Tokyo; 100,000+ Die |
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1871
Oct 08 |
Peshtigo, WI, Destroyed by Forest Fire. 1,000+ People Killed |
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1875
May 16 |
Earthquake Strikes Venezuela & Colombia: 16,000 die |
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1883
Aug 26 |
Krakatoa Eruption Creates Tsunamis: 36,000+ die |
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1884
Feb 19 |
Tornados Kill 800 People in Seven U.S. States |
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1888
Mar 11 |
Blizzard Hits U.S. Northeastern Seaboard (400 die) |
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1888
Apr 30 |
Hailstorm Kills 246 in Moradabad, India |
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1896
May 15 |
Texas Tornado Kills 78 |
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1896
May 27 |
Tornado Kills 255 in St. Louis and East St. Louis, IL |
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1900
Sept 08 |
Hurricane Hits Galveston, TX: Thousands Die |
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1902
May 08 |
Martinique's Mount Pelee Erupts: 40,000 die |
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1905
Apr 04 |
Earthquake in Kangra, India, Kills 370,000 |
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1906
Apr 18 |
8.3 Earthquake Levels San Francisco: 3,000+ die |
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1907
Jan 14 |
Earthquake Kills Over 1,000 in Jamaica |
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1915
Jan 13 |
Earthquake Strikes Avezzano, Italy: 30,000 die |
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1920
Dec 16 |
8.6 Earthquake Hits China's Gansu Province: 200,000 Die |
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1925
Mar 18 |
Tornado Hits Missouri, Indiana, Illinois: 689 Die, 13,000 Injured |
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1928
Mar 13 |
California's St Francis Valley Dam Bursts: 450 Die |
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1931
Apr 30 |
Cyclone Strikes Bangladesh: 131,000+ die |
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1935
Sept 02 |
Hurricane Slams the Florida Keys: 423 die |
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1936
Apr 05 |
Tornado Levels Tupelo, MS: 216 Die |
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1939
Jan 24 |
Earthquake Kills 30,000 in Concepcion Chile |
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1947
Apr 09 |
Tornadoes Strike West Texas & Oklahoma: 169 Die |
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1952
Mar 21 |
Tornados Ravage SE United States: 343 Die |
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1953
Jan 31 |
Hurricane-force Winds Flood Netherlands: 2,000 Die |
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1953
Mar 18 |
Earthquake Strikes West Turkey: 250 Die |
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1955
Aug 19 |
Hurricane Diane Causes Severe Flooding in U.S. Northeast: 200 Die |
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1959
Sept 27 |
Typhoon Vera Batters Japan's Honshu Island: Almost 5,000 die |
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1960
May 22 |
9.5 Earthquake Strikes Chile: 2,000 dies |
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1963
Mar 17 |
Mount Agung on Bali Erupts, Killing at Least 11,000 People |
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1964
Mar 27 |
9.2 Earthquake Strikes Alaska (largest ever in the U.S.) - 15 Die |
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1965
Apr 11 |
40 Tornadoes Strike U.S. Midwest: 272 die, 5,000 injured |
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1965
Apr 29 |
Earthquake Hits Seattle: 5 die |
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1967
Jan 14 |
Earthquake Kills 231 in Sicily |
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1968
May 15 |
Tornado Strikes Jonesboro, Arkansas: 36 die |
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1970
Mar 28 |
7.3 Earthquake Destroys 254 Villages in Turkey: 1,086 Die |
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1970
Nov 12 |
Cyclone /Tidal Wave Hits East Pakistan: 200,000 Die |
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1976
Nov 24 |
Earthquake Destroys Town of Muradiye, Turkey: 5,291 Die |
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1977
Mar 04 |
Earthquake in Romania Kills 1,541 |
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1983
Aug 18 |
Hurricane Alicia Slams the Texas Coast: 22 Dead with $1+ Billion Damage |
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1985
Sept 19 |
Mexico City Earthquake Kills Thousands |
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1985
Nov 13 |
Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz Erupts - Mudslide Kills 23,000 |
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1986
Oct 10 |
1,500 Die in San Salvador Earthquake (7.5) |
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1987
Mar 06 |
Earthquake Hits Ecuador: Kills 100 |
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1987
Oct 01 |
Eight Killed in Los Angeles Earthquake |
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1988
Feb 04 |
6.1 Earthquake Kills 4,500 in Afghanistan |
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1991
Apr 30 |
Cyclone Kills 125,000 in Bangladesh |
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1992
Mar 13 |
Earthquake in Turkey Kills More than 1,000 |
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1993
Mar 12 |
East Coast of North America Hit by Winter Storm: 110 Die |
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1993
Sept 30 |
6.4 Earthquake Strike Southern India: 10,000 die |
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1994
Jan 17 |
6.7 Los Angeles-area Earthquake Kills at Least 60 |
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1994
Mar 27 |
Piedmont, Alabama Church Collapses in Tornado: 14 Die |
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1994
Aug 18 |
Magnitude 5.6 Earthquake Stirkes Mascara Region of Western Algeria: 120 die |
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1995
Jan 17 |
Kobe, Japan Suffers 7.2 Earthquake: 5,300 Die |
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1995
Nov 03 |
Typhoon Angela Kills 880 People in the Philippines |
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1996
Jan 07 |
Historic Blizzard Hits Eastern U.S.: 100+ Die |
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1996
May 14 |
Tornado Destroys 80 Bangladesh Villages: 400 die |
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1997
May 10 |
Earthquake Hits Northeast Iran: 2,400 die |
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1997
May 19 |
Cyclone Kills 105 and Damages 400,000 Homes in Bangladesh |
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1998
Jan 26 |
Earthquake Kills 13,000 on Indian Subcontinent |
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1998
May 30 |
Earthquake in Northern Afghanistan Kills 5,000 |
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1998
Oct 15 |
Typhoon Zeb Kills 24 in The Philippines |
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1999
Jan 25 |
Colombian Earthquake Leaves Hundreds Dead |
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2001
Jan 13 |
Earthquake of 7.6 Magnitude Stikes El Salvador: 840 die |
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2002
Mar 25 |
6.1 Earthquake Devastates Nahrin, Afghanistan: 800 Die |
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2003
May 21 |
6.7 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Algeria: 1,000+ die |
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2004
Dec 26 |
Indian Ocean Tsunami Kills 150,000+ |
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Aug 30 |
Cleopatra Commits Suicide with Snake Bite |
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1644
Mar 19 |
200 Members of Peking Imperial Court Commit Suicide |
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1945
Apr 30 |
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun Commit Suicide in Hitler's Bunker |
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1945
Dec 16 |
Prince Fumimaro Kono Commits Suicide to Escape War Crimes Charges |
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1946
Oct 15 |
Nazi Leader Herman Goering Kills Himself in Prison with Cyanide |
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1991
May 21 |
Suicide Bomber Assassinates Former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi |
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1999
Apr 13 |
Dr. Jack Kervorkian Sentenced 10-25 Years in Prison for Televised Assisted Suicide |
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2002
Mar 02 |
Palestinian Suicide Bomber Kills 11 Israelis in Jerusalem |
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1315
Nov 15 |
Swiss Soldiers Slaughter Austrians in the Battle of Morgarten |
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1477
Jan 05 |
Swiss Defeat and Kill Charles the Bold at the Battle of Nancy |
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1760
Nov 03 |
Frederick the Great of Prussia Defeats Austrians at Torgau: 13,000 Prussians Die |
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1798
May 26 |
The British Kill About 500 Irish Insurgents At the Battle of Tara |
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1862
Sept 17 |
Antietam Is Bloodiest Battle in U.S. History: 23,000 Killed, Wounded, Missing |
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1868
May 30 |
The U.S. Celebrates Its First Memorial Day |
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1870
Aug 18 |
Prussians Defeat the French at Gravelotte: 30,000 die |
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1910
Sept 04 |
First American Is Killed in World War I |
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1914
Sept 05 |
The Battle of the Marne Begins: 500,000 Will Die |
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1915
Mar 18 |
French Battleship Bouvet Explodes, 640 Killed |
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1915
May 07 |
Germans Sink British Passenger Ship Lusitania: 1,100+ die |
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1920
Mar 18 |
Steamer Hong Kong Runs Aground Off Swatow, China: 1,000 Die |
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1921
Nov 11 |
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery |
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1941
May 27 |
British Sink German Battleship Bismarck Off Coast of France: 2,300 die |
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1941
Nov 25 |
German U-boat Sinks British Battleship Barham, Killing 848 |
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1942
Mar 11 |
First Deportation Train Leaves Paris for Auschewitz |
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1942
Aug 25 |
War Mission Plane Crash Kills Duke of Kent, Brother of King George VI |
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1942
Nov 15 |
Five Sullivan Brothers are Killed in Action Aboard USS Juneau |
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1943
Jan 31 |
Germans Surrender Stalingrad (160,000 killed, 90,000 prisoners) |
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1943
Oct 07 |
Japanese Execute 96 American Prisoners of War on Wake Island |
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1944
Jan 11 |
German POW Murdered By NAZI Enforcers in Texas Internment Camp |
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1944
Sept 08 |
The First German V-2 Rocket Hits London Destroying Homes & Killing 3 |
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1944
Nov 12 |
U.S. Fighters Destroy Japanese Convoy: 8,000 Killed |
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1944
Nov 25 |
German V-2 Rocket Kills 160 Shoppers at British Woolworth Department Store |
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1945
Feb 13 |
Allies Firebomb Dresden, Germany for Four Days: 50,000 Die |
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1945
Mar 09 |
U.S. B-29 Bombers Attack Japan Causing Widespread Devastation |
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1945
Mar 10 |
300 U.S. B-29 Bombers Firestorm Tokyo, Killing 100,000 people. |
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1945
Mar 19 |
Kamikaze Attacks USS Franklin off Japan: 800 Die |
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1945
Mar 26 |
4,500 Americans & 22,000 Japanese Die at Iwo Jima |
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1945
May 05 |
A Japanese Balloon Bomb Explodes on Gearhart Mountain, Oregon, Killing Six |
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1958
May 30 |
Unidentified WWII & Koren War Soldiers Buried at Arlington |
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1965
Feb 10 |
Viet Cong Guerrillas Blow Up the U.S. Barracks at Qui Nhon: 23 Americans Die |
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1965
Nov 24 |
U.S. Casualty Rates Hit News Highs in Vietnam: 710 Dead over Past Two Weeks |
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1968
Mar 16 |
Lt. Calley's U.S. Troops Massacre at Least 100 Villagers at My Lai, Vietnam |
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1975
Apr 13 |
Civil War Breaks Out in Lebanon When Gunmen Kill 4 Christian Phalangists |
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1975
May 15 |
Kelton Turner Last American Soldier Killed in Vietnam War |
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1976
Aug 18 |
Two American Soldiers Killed by North Koreans in Skirmish at Panmunjom |
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1982
May 04 |
Argentine Air-fired Missile Sinks Britian's HMS Sheffield: 268 Crew Die |
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1982
May 25 |
Argentine Missiles Strike Two British Ships: Dozens Die |
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1984
May 28 |
President Reagan Leads Funeral for Unidentified Soldier |
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1989
Apr 13 |
Six Killed in Israeli Raid on West Bank Village |
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1997
Oct 18 |
Monument to U.S. Servicewomen Dedicated at Arlington National Cemetary |
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1999
May 07 |
NATO Jet Mistakenly Bombs the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade: 3 die |
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1610
May 14 |
French King Henri IV Assassinated by Fanatical Monk |
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1881
Mar 13 |
Tsar Alexander II Assassinated by Bomb Thrown at Him |
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1841
Apr 04 |
President William Henry Harrison Dies in Office |
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1921
Nov 04 |
Japan Prime Minister, Takashi Hara, Assassinated by Conservative Fanatic |
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1934
Oct 09 |
King Alexander of Yugoslavia Is Assassinated in France |
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1945
Apr 15 |
President Franklin Roosevelt Is Buried at Hyde Park, NY |
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1945
Apr 30 |
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun Commit Suicide in Hitler's Bunker |
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1948
Jan 30 |
Mohandas Gandhi Is Assassinated |
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1963
Nov 22 |
President John F. Kennedy Is Assassinated in Dallas, Texas |
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1969
Feb 03 |
Mozambique President Mondlane Assassinated by Secret Police Mail Bomb |
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1981
Oct 06 |
Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat Assassinated Reviewing Military Parade |
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1984
Oct 31 |
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi Is Assassinated by Her Own Sikh Bodyguards |
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1986
Feb 28 |
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme Is Assassinated in Stockholm |
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1989
Nov 22 |
Lebanon's Newly-elected President, Rene Muawad, Is Assassinated |
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1991
May 21 |
Suicide Bomber Assassinates Former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi |
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1995
Nov 04 |
Israeli Conservative Extremeist Assassinates Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin |
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This guide last edited 09/12/2011
This guide last revised 11/12/2008
K-12 TLC Teachable Moments