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1998 Failed assassination attempt on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze

1997 Tajik Prest Imomali Rakhmonov wounded in assassination attempt

1996 Assassination attempt on Uday (Iraqi's heir to Sadam Hussain)

1995 Indians' Jose Mesa fails in save attempt after 38th consecutive saves

1991 Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use

1989 Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt

1988 Secretary of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia

1988 Cubs and Phillies attempt to play 1st night game ever at Wrigley Field but are rained out in 4th inning with Chicago leading, 3-1

1986 Failed assassination attempt on India premier Rajiv Gandhi

1986 Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi

1986 Failed assassination attempt on Chilean dictator Pinochet, 5 killed

1984 STS 41-D launch attempt scrubbed because of computer problem

1982 In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior to his attempt to attack Pope John Paul II

1981 John Hinckley, Jr. pleads innocent in attempt to kill President Reagan

1981 Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt

1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca

1980 Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to control the Shatt al-Arab waterway

1980 Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz

1977 Attempt for Moslem state in Chad fails

1975 Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on President Ford's life

1975 Assassination attempt on president Gerald Ford

1974 Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall

1972 Assassination attempt on governor George Wallace of Alabama

1971 Failed attempt on King Hassan II Shirat Morocco, 101 killed

1970 Failed assassination attempt on Jordanian king Hussain

1968 Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Caesar's Palace Fountain

1965 Luna 5 launched (U.S.S.R.) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)

1964 Failed assassination attempt on president Nkrumah of Ghana

1962 Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails

1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro

1961 Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen

1960 French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu

1957 1st U.S. attempt to launch a satellite fails - Vanguard rocket blows up

1957 Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8

1956 Pakistan defeat Australia by nine wickets at 1st attempt

1953 Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St. Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee

1952 Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer

1950 Collazo and Torresola attempt to kill Truman in Washington, D.C.

1949 Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia

1946 Giants Filchock and Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt

1946 Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in San Francisco history)

1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese PM during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged

1945 Assassination attempt on Hohere, SS Police fuhrer Rauter

1945 Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp

1944 Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg, attempt Hitler assassination, dies

1944 July 20th Plot-Failed assassination attempt on Hitler

1944 Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested

1944 Gen Rommel, Speidel and von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler

1943 Outbreak attempt in Sobibor Concentration Camp

1943 Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau

1943 Assassination attempt on Hitler fails

1943 Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight

1940 James Brady, press secretary, wounded during Reagan assassin attempt

1939 Failed assassination attempt on Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich

1934 U.S. Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses"

1933 Giuseppe [Joe] Zangara, electrocuted for assassination attempt on FDR

1933 President-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt

1932 Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua Movement in Finland

1929 Belgium princess Marie-Jose and Italian crown prince Umberto gets engaged, assassination attempt on Umberto fails

1928 Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover

1928 Assassination attempt on king Victor Emmanuel II of Italy

1924 Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt

1924 Landis bans Giants Jimmy O'Connell and Cozy Dolan from World Series after they admit an attempt to bribe Phils shortstop Heinie Sand

1924 Assassination attempt on Mussolini fails

1923 Unsuccessful attempt on prince-regent Hirohito of Japan

1923 In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power

1920 Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails

1919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt

1912 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt

1911 Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly

1910 New York City Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt

1908 Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran

1902 Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League

1900 Assassination attempt on prince of Wales/king Edward VII

1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, by finishing trip following January in 72 days, 6

1880 Tsar Alexander II of Russia survives an assassination attempt

1878 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground

1869 Black Friday; Wall St. panic after Gould and Fisk attempt to corner gold

1869 Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to control U.S. gold market

1866 German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassin attempt

1858 French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed

1854 Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine

1854 Composer R Schumann is saved from suicide attempt into the Rhine

1829 Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolivar

1812 Battle of Queenstown Heights, British beats U.S. attempt to invade Canada

1801 Murder attempt on Czar Paul I

1800 King George III survives a 2nd assassination attempt

1792 Murder attempt on King Gustavus III by count Ankarstrom at opera

1762 1st reported counterfeiting attempt, Boston

1757 Failed assassination attempt on French king Louis XV by Damiens

1589 Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French King Hendrik III

1392 Assassination attempt on Pierre de Craon Van Clisson of France, fails

1176 Murder attempt by "Assassins" on Saladin near Aleppo

644 Kalief Omar I injured during assassination attempt



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