Would-be assassin Richard Lawrence was found ‘not guilty by reason of insanity’ and was committed to an asylum.
21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
21st November 2020
On the 15th January 1919, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were killed by members of the Freikorps.
White was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter after pleading a state of mental diminished capacity, and the lenient sentence sparked the White Night riots of 21 May 1979.
At 12.30pm on Friday November 22nd 1963, President John F. Kennedy of the United States of America was fatally shot as his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.
On the 13th October AD 54, the Roman Emperor Claudius died, supposedly after being poisoned.
President William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist during a meet-and-greet.
On the 30th August 1918, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov – better known as Lenin – was the victim of a failed assassination plot.
The radical French journalist Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.
The 28th June saw both the trigger and the definitive end of the First World War.
On the 4th April 1968, Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 39.
13th April 1919: British troops commit the Amritsar Massacre
13th April 2021
12th April 1945: Harry Truman becomes president of the USA
12th April 2021
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019