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1997 Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight
1989 Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails 1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison 1982 John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity 1982 Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. attempted assassin of Reagan, begins 1980 Attempted assassination on Vernon Jordan, Jr. National Urban League president 1979 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed 1978 U.S. Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted player sales by A's owner Charlie Finley in June 1976 1975 Federal jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination 1950 Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate President Truman, shot dead 1928 Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsuccessful) 1925 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 Forest Peters of Montana State University hits 17 of 22 attempted field goals 1905 Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg, attempted to assassinate Hitler 1900 Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails 1897 Washington Senator catcher Charlie Farrell throws out 8 attempted stealers |
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