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2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks kill over 195 people over four days
2007 Multiple suicide bombings kill over 550 people in Qahtaniya, Iraq 2003 An Islamist terrorist is sentenced to death for his part in the Bali bombings that kill nearly 200 in 2002 2003 Gregory Peck, actor, To Kill a Mockingbird, dies at 87 2001 Earthquake and landslides kill 850 in El Salvador 1995 John Megna, actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird), dies at 42 1995 Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters 1994 Battles between army and rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57 1993 Somali General Aidids arm forces kill 18 U.S. Rangers 1993 Moslem fundamentalists in Sivas Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36 1993 Nazi's kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany 1993 South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl 1993 Eddie Constantine, actor (Alphaville, License to Kill), dies at 75 1992 Mobil Oil tug with 12,000 gallons of oil run aground in Arthur Kill 1991 Militant Sikhs kill 55 and wound 70 in India 1991 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee 1991 Pamela Smart (High School teacher) found guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband 1990 Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters 1990 Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal 1990 Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators 1989 16th James Bond movies "License to Kill" premieres 1989 Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing 1989 Merritt Butrick, actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies of AIDS at 29 1988 Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione and Sinatra 1988 Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on City of Poros cruise ship 1988 Shooting begins on "License to Kill" 1987 Richard Egan, actor (Big Cube, Amsterdam Kill), dies at 63 1986 Surinames Ronnie Brunswijks Jungle commandos kill 2 government officials 1986 Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India 1986 Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India 1985 Terrorists kill 20 and wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome and Vienna airports, President Reagan blames Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi 1985 Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus 1985 Tornados in Penn, Ohio, New York and Canada kill 88 and injured more than 1,000 1985 "View to a Kill" premieres in US 1984 Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage 1984 Fire destroys a set in "A View to the Kill" 1983 U.S. Marine sharpshooters kill 5 snipers at Beirut International Airport 1983 Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India 1982 Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Washington Monument hostage. After 10 hours, police kill him he had no explosives 1981 John Hinckley, Jr. pleads innocent in attempt to kill President Reagan 1979 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed 1978 3 PFLP members kill a cop near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris 1977 Miltitary workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa 1976 John Roselli, hired by CIA to kill Castro, found murdered 1975 Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill President Gerald Ford 1974 Fall of earth and rocks kill 200 (Quebrada Blanca Canyon, Colombia) 1972 Bloody Sunday: British soldiers fire into crowd, kill 13 1970 Arab terrorists kill 9 children and 3 adults on a school bus 1970 Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss) 1969 Matthew McConaughey, actor, Contact, A Time to Kill 1969 Ted Hecht, actor (Time to Kill, Song of India, Gangster), dies 1968 Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in South Carolina State (Orangeburg) 1967 Talisa Soto, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, License to Kill 1967 Benicio Del Toro, born in Puerto Rico, actor, Licence to Kill, Usual Suspects 1965 Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia 1965 Lava flows kill at least 350 (Taal Philippines) 1963 Jason Newstedt, U.S. heavy-metal bassist for Metallica, Kill 'em All 1962 E German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector 1962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages and kill 3,500 1961 Battle of Paris - police kill 210 Algerians 1961 Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Manchester England, actress, Kill Me Again 1961 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird 1961 Keith Gordon, New York City, actor, Dressed to Kill, Legend of Billie Jean 1960 Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa and outlaws ANC 1959 Sam Raimi, actor, Indian Summer, Thou Shalt Not Kill Except 1957 Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators 1956 Fire and explosion kill 263 miners at Marcinelle, Belgium 1956 Robert Davi, actor, License to Kill, Raw Deal, Wild Thing 1955 Priscilla Barnes, Ft. Dix, New Jersey, actress, License to Kill, 3s Company 1953 Jane Badler, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Fine Gold, Easy Kill, V 1953 Tornadoes kill 110 in Michigan and Ohio 1952 Deborah Shelton, Washington D.C., actress, Dallas, Ocean Kill, Body Double 1952 Barry Champagne, born in Louisiana, stunt coorindator, Licence to Kill 1951 Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria 1951 David Yip, born in Liverpool, England, of Chinese descent, English actor, played Johnny Ho in The Chinese Detective, played CIA liason agent Chuck Lee in 'A View to a Kill', a 1985 James Bond film 1951 Steven Seagal, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Above the Law, Hard to Kill 1950 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at Blair House 1950 Collazo and Torresola attempt to kill Truman in Washington, D.C. 1950 Nancy Allen, born in New York City, actress, Carrie, 1941, Robocop, Dress to Kill 1947 Tornadoes striking West Texas and Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300 1944 German V-2 strikes Antwerp bioscope (638 kill) 1943 SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children 1942 Carlson's Raiders land on Makin, Gilbert islands, kill 350 Japanese 1942 Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, Czechoslovakia 1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania 1941 German and Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev 1940 Brian DePalma, born in Newark, New Jersey, film director, Body Double, Dressed to Kill 1939 Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky 1937 Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago 1937 Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade 1937 Collin Wilcox, Highlands, North Carolina, actor, To Kill a Mocking Bird 1936 Bekim Fehmiu, actor, Black Sunday, Permission to Kill, Cagliostro 1935 Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie and Jacmel Haiti 1934 Bonnie and Clyde kill 2 police officers 1933 Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators 1932 Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR 1930 Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium) 1929 Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin 1928 Joss Ackland, born in London, England, actor, Queenie, To Kill a Priest 1927 Brock Peters, born in New York City, actor/singer, Carmen Jones, To Kill a Mockingbird 1926 Harper Lee, author, To Kill a Mockingbird 1923 2-pound hailstones kill 23 and many cattle, Rostov, Russia 1921 1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars) 1920 Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama and Mississippi 1919 British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre) 1916 Gregory Peck, born in La Jolla, California, actor, To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur 1914 Bavarian troops kill 50 inhabitants of Nomeny France 1914 Patricia Morison, actress, Peyton Place, Dressed to Kill 1913 British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill) 1907 Ben Carter, born in New York City, actor, Dark Alibi, Dressed to Kill 1900 Empress Douairiere orders I-Ho-Chuan (Boxers) to kill all foreigners 1884 Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana kill 800 people 1878 Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500 1875 White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg 1868 Earthquakes kill 25,000 and causes $300 million damages (Peru and Ecuador) 1864 Union troops ambush and kill 'Bloody' Bill Anderson in Richmond MI 1863 Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers 1848 Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia 1847 Indians kill Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, 11 settle in Walla Walla Ore 1801 Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews 1798 British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara 1778 Iroquois Indians in New York kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre 1778 British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in Bronx during Revolution 1770 Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd. Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom 1744 Austrian forces pillage and kill Jews of Prague 1737 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (Bengal, India) 1704 French and Indians attack Deerfield, Massachusetts, kill 50, abduct 100 1704 Indians attack Deerfield, Massachusetts, kill 40, kidnap 100 1676 Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass 1643 Dutch U.S. colonists kill Algonquin-indians 1478 Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo and kill Giuliano de'Medici 1190 Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St. Edmonds England |
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