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 (HS teacher) found guilty in NH 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 hrs, 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 Milt 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 Mich 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 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 Japs
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
1915 Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 killed)
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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