2014 Event Sony Pictures releases its comedy 'The Interview' today in over 300 theaters and through online channels; the film depicts an attempted assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and was initially canceled due to threats and hacking attacks 2014 Event Sony Pictures will release its controversial comedy, 'The Interview', about an attempted assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un; the film was canceled after hacking attacks and threats, but Sony now seeks a wide audience for the movie 2014 Event Sony Pictures cancels release of its movie "The Interview" after hacking attacks and threats thought to be ordered by the North Korean government; the movie is reportedly a comedy depicting an attempted assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un 2010 Event Timothy Torlot, British ambassador to Yemen, survives an attempted suicide bombing 1997 Event Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight 1989 Event Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails 1987 Event Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison 1982 Event John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity 1982 Event Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. attempted assassin of Reagan, begins 1980 Event Attempted assassination on Vernon Jordan, Jr. National Urban League president 1979 Event 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed 1978 Event U.S. Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted player sales by A's owner Charlie Finley in June 1976 1975 Event Federal jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination 1950 Death Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate President Truman, shot dead 1928 Event Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsuccessful) 1925 Birthday Idi Amin, born in Uganda, military dictator, president of Uganda, assumed role of Chairman of the Organization of African Unity, attempted to annex Kagera, Tanzania 1924 Event Forest Peters of Montana State University hits 17 of 22 attempted field goals 1905 Birthday Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg, attempted to assassinate Hitler 1900 Event Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails 1897 Event Washington Senator catcher Charlie Farrell throws out 8 attempted stealers
