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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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