The radical French journalist Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
The 28th June saw both the trigger and the definitive end of the First World War.
On the 3rd April 1882, the American outlaw Jesse James was shot dead by fellow gang-member Robert Ford.
On the 15th March 44BCE, Roman dictator Julius Caesar was stabbed to death near to the Theatre of Pompey in Rome.
On the 13th March 1881, Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated in a St Petersburg street by a member of the People’s Will revolutionary movement.
On the 24th January 41 CE, Caligula became the first Roman Emperor to be assassinated.
On the 29th December 1170, Thomas Becket – the Archbishop of Canterbury – was murdered in front of the altar of Canterbury Cathedral.
On the 5th November 1605, the Gunpowder Plot was foiled when Guy or Guido Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder that had been placed in an undercroft below the House of Lords in London.
Leon Trotsky was fatally wounded with an ice axe by Spanish communist Ramón Mercader.
On the 13th July 1793, the radical French journalist Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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