Black teenager Emmett Till was murdered for allegedly flirting with and offending a white woman in Mississippi.
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Archibald Brown was murdered by his son, who placed an anti-tank grenade under the seat of his bath chair.
Although the popular name suggests the purge lasted for one night, the executions went on throughout the weekend.
King was standing on the balcony outside his room at the Lorrain Motel in Memphis when he was hit by a single bullet that shattered his jaw and several vertebrae.
Commanded by Lieutenant William Calley, the troops killed between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in hamlets around the South Vietnamese village of Son My.
As Lennon walked from his limousine to the Dakota building’s front entrance, Mark David Chapman fired five rounds at his back, of which four hit him.
Ancient sources state that the Emperor Claudius as poisoned, although who administered the poison – and on whose orders – continues to be fiercely debated by scholars.
David Berkowitz was responsible for a series of attacks often involving young women with dark hair, and usually while they were in parked cars late at night.
The Romanov family were all shot or stabbed by bayonets, and their bodies were taken away in a truck and disposed of in a forest twelve miles north of the city.
American outlaw Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
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