1997 Gianni Versace, fashion designer, shot to death by Andrew Cunanan at 50
1997 Notorius B I G, [Biggie Small, Chris Walkin], rapper, shot dead at 24
1996 NFL/Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier, is shot several times
1995 Abdul Ali Mazari, Afghan shite leader, shot to death
1995 Mahmoud Sayed Selim, Egyptian moslim leader, shot to death at 29
1994 Dedrick Gobert, U.S. actor (Boyz 'n the Hood), shot to death at 22
1994 Ali Kouider Benyahia, [sheik Boualem], Alg Moslem leader, shot at 26
1994 Cherif Gousmi, [kalief Abu Abdallah Ahmed], Alger Moslem leader, shot
1994 Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian Catholic priest, shot dead
1994 Andres Escobar, Colombia world cup soccer star, shot for losing to US
1994 Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Moslem leader, shot dead at 32
1994 Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32
1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana, PM of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi
1993 Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom, actress, shot to death at about 92
1993 Douglas Hopkins, guitarist (Gin Blossoms), dies of gun shot at 32
1993 Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Colombian drug baron, shot to death at 44
1993 Khaled Moustapha Zir, Palestinian Hamas leader, shot to death at 25
1993 Imad Aqal, Palestinian Izz-Danish al-Qassem-leader, shot to death
1993 George Tiller, abortion doctor, shot in his arms by Rachelle Shannon
1993 Wolfgang Grams, German RAF-terrorist, shot to death at 40
1993 John B Connally, Governor of Texas/shot with John F. Kennedy in 1963, dies at 76
1993 Jesus Posadas Ocampo, Mexican cardinal/archbishop, shot dead at 66
1993 New York Islanders beat Washington Caps 4 to 1 in playoffs, Caps Dale Hunter attacks Pierre Turgeon after scoring, in hockey's worst cheap shot
1993 Sam Ntombani, ANC-secretary in Soweto South-Africa, shot to death
1993 Brandon Lee, U.S. actor (Crow)/son of Bruce Lee, accidentally shot at 28
1993 Dino Bravo, wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44
1992 Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa is shot twice in New York City
1991 Major league umpire Steve Palermo and former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed
1991 Operation Desert Storm: 1st U.S. pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn)
1990 Robert Alex, shot to death by robber at 31
1989 Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst because he's black
1989 Rebecca Schaeffer, actress (My Sister Sam), is shot by a fan at 21
1989 Huey Newton, U.S., Black Panther leader, shot dead at 47
1988 Peter Tosh, reggae singer shot dead at 43 in Jamacia
1988 Judith Barsi, child actress, shot dead with mother by her father at 11
1988 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers
1987 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots)
1987 Mehdi Hashemi, Iranian aid of Ayatollah Khomeini, shot for treason
1987 National Federation of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet)
1987 Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot
1987 R Budd Dwyer, Penns State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy and perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference
1986 Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
1985 Paul Castellano, Organized-crime chief, shot dead at a New York City restaurant
1985 Harchand Singh Longowai, Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists
1985 Bob Carpenter is unsuccessful on Washington Caps 1st playoff penalty shot
1985 Bruce Morris, Marshall University, makes a 92' 5" basketball shot
1985 Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders
1985 Bryan Trottier failed on 9th Islander penalty shot
1984 Percy Norris, deputy high commissioner of India, shot dead
1984 Flyers' Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders
1984 Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders
1984 James Oliver Huberty, shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds
1984 U.S. missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time
1984 Marvin Gaye, rocker (Sexual Healing), shot dead by his father at 45
1984 Oiler's Wayne Gretzky is 3rd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
1984 Libyan embassy demonstration, 1 shot dead
1984 Marvin Gaye, shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in LA at 44
1984 Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead
1984 Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders
1984 Malcolm H Kerr, 9th President of American University of Beirut, shot dead
1983 Pope John Paul II pardons man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca)
1983 Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA
1983 Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet
1983 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour
1983 Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m
1983 Caps 2-Isles 6 -Patrick Semis-Denis Potvin fails on penalty shot
1983 Bob Bourne fails on 8th Islander penalty shot
1982 Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot
1982 3 CBS employees shot to death in New York City parking lot
1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
1981 Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers
1981 Pope John Paul II shot, wounded by assailant in St. Peter's Square
1981 Ranger's Anders Hedberg is 2nd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
1981 Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him
1981 President Reagan shot and wounded by John W Hinckley III
1981 Klaus Grabowski, child molester, shot by parent
1980 Anders Kailur scores on 6th Islander penalty shot
1980 Stella Walsh-S-Walasiewicz, sprinter 1932 Olympics gold, shot at 69
1980 Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill)
1980 It is revealed Kristen shot J.R. Ewing on "Dallas"
1980 On TV show Dallas, J.R. is shot
1979 Kings' Charley Simmer fails on 8th penalty shot against Islanders
1979 Jacques Mesrine, French "enemy of the state", shot to death
1979 Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1'9"
1979 Ronald Adam, actor (Phantom Shot), dies at 82
1979 New York Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against New York Rangers
1978 Islanders took 28 shots in 1 period vs Penguins Penguins' Ross Lonsberry failed on 7th penalty shot against Islanders
1978 George Moscone, (SF Mayor), shot by Dan White
1978 Harvey Milk, (SF City Supervisor), shot by Dan White
1978 Lyman Bostock, outfielder (Angels), shot and killed at 27
1978 Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace
1978 Flyers' Rick MacLeash scores on 6th penalty shot against Islanders
1978 Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
1978 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot and crippled by a sniper in Georgia
1978 Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders
1978 Terry Kath, rock guitarist (Chicago), accidently shot in head at 32
1977 Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 3rd penalty shot against Islanders
1977 25th Islander shut-out Resch 6-0 Gilles scores on 5th penalty shot
1977 Stacy Moskowitz, shot to death by Son of Sam, at 20
1977 Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders
1976 Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot
1976 Brad Snyder, Ontario, shot putter 1996 Olympics
1975 Richard S Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead
1975 Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris
1975 Turkish diplomat shot to death in Vienna
1975 Brian Oldfield of U.S. put shot 75', an unofficial record
1975 Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record)
1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arab (1964-75), shot by nephew
1975 Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders
1975 1st successful Washington Capitals penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs Vancouver Canucks
1975 Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot
1974 1st Washington Capitals penalty shot, Tom Williams unsuccessful vs Buff Sabres
1974 Tom Williams is unsuccessful on Washington Capitals 1st NHL penalty shot
1974 Amy Fisher, born in Long Island, New York, shot Mary Jo Buttafucco
1974 Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot
1973 Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m
1972 Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot
1972 Morocco King Hassan II's B727 shot at
1972 George Wallace shot and left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland
1972 Phil King, rock (Blue Oyster Cult), shot in head at 24 while gambling
1972 John Godina, born in Fort Sill Oklahoma, shot putter/discus thrower, 1996 Olympics silver
1971 Lisa-Marie Vizaniari, Australian discus/shot putter 1996 Olympics
1971 George Jackson, U.S. prisoner, shot to death at 29
1971 Mohamed Madbouh, Moroccan general/putschist, shot to death
1971 Joseph Colombo, mobster, shot dead at 48
1970 ... Haley, U.S. judge, shot dead
1970 James McClain, U.S. black activist, shot dead
1970 Jonathan P Jackson, U.S. black activist, shot dead
1970 William Christmas, U.S. black activist, shot dead
1969 100-1 shot New York Mets beat Orioles 5-3 and win 66th World Series in 5
1969 Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming "Ned Kelly"
1968 Donovan Leitch, Jr., actor/musician, I Shot Andy Warhol
1968 Wayne Connelly is 1st to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
1968 Bobby Hutton, U.S. Black Panther leader, shot to death
1968 Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one
1968 Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head
1967 Kevin Toth, born in Cleveland, Ohio, shot putter
1966 Charles Whitman, former marine, kills 13 at University of Texas, shot by cops
1966 [Eric] Randy Barnes, Charleston, West Virginia, shot putter, Oly-silv/gold-88, 96
1966 Randolph Turpin, boxer, shot dead in his home
1965 50 mph gust carries 165 lb Robert Mitera's tee shot 447
1965 Daniela Costian, Australian discus/shot putter 1996 Olympics
1964 Sam Cooke, rock vocalist, shot to death at 29
1964 U.S. reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany
1963 Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy's assassinator, shot dead by Jack Ruby
1963 Medgar Evers, NAACP official, shot in Jackson Miss at 37
1962 Rudolph Anderson, U-2 pilot, shot down over Cuba
1962 E German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector
1962 James F Doehring, born in Santa Barbara, California, shot putter, Olympics-silver-1992
1961 Ramona Pagel, born in Los Angeles, California, shot putter
1960 Michael Carter, born in Dallas, Texas, shot putter 1984 Olympics silver
1959 Boughera El Quafi, marathoner 1928 Olympics gold, shot to death at 60
1959 Bill Sharman hits a NBA record 56 consecutive foul shot
1959 Carl Switzer, actor (Alfalfa-Our Gang), shot to death at 31
1955 2 Egyptian fighters shot down over Israel
1955 Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die
1955 U.S. air patrol plane shot down above Bering sea
1955 John Hinckley, Jr., shot and wounded President Reagan, 1981
1954 1st use of 24-sec shot clock in pro basketball (Rochester vs Boston)
1954 Johnny Ace, Memphis rocker, accidently shot self in head at 25
1954 U.S. spy plane shot down North of Japan
1954 U.S. plane shot down above Siberia
1954 NBA adopts 24-second shot clock and 6 team-foul rule
1953 Kevin Nealon, Bridgeport Conn, actor, SNL, Hot Shot, Coneheads
1953 U.S. bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok
1953 Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea
1951 Mustafa Shuqri Ashu, tailor/murderer of king Abdullah, shot to death
1951 Maren Seidler, born in Brooklyn, New York, shot putter, Olympics-11th-1968
1950 Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate President Truman, shot dead
1950 Salvatore Giuliano, Sicilian bandit, shot by police
1950 U.S. B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia
1949 Geoff Capes, shot putter
1949 Husni al-Barazi, premier of Syria, shot to death
1949 Husni el-Zaim, president/dictator of Syria, shot to death
1949 Helena Fibingerova, born in Czechoslovakia, shot putter 1976 Olympics bronze
1949 Phils Eddie Waitkus, shot by Ruth Steinhagen, 19, at Eddgewater Hotel
1948 Walter P Reuther UAW President shot and wounded at his home in Detroit
1948 Walter P Reuther, President (United Auto Workers), shot at his home
1947 Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
1946 Aston Barrett, Jamaican reggae bassist, I Shot the Sheriff
1946 Ananda Mahidol, king of Siam, shot dead at 20
1946 Michael Ontkean, Vancouver BC, actor, Rookies, Slap Shot, Twin Peaks
1945 Nadezhda Chizova, U.S.S.R., shot putter, Oly-gold/silv/bronze-68/72/76
1945 Bernito Mussolini, Fascist leader (Italy), tried and shot
1945 Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter, shot to death at 29
1945 Randy Matson, U.S., shot putter, Olympic gold 1968
1944 Bijnen, Dutch opposition leader (LKP), shot to death in Apeldoorn
1944 Swoosie Kurtz, born in Omaha, Nebraska, actress, Slap Shot, Garp, Sisters
1944 Krijn van den Helm, resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death
1944 Battle of Philippines Sea, 300 Japanese aircraft shot down
1944 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down
1944 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo
1944 Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German major/pilot, shot down
1943 P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North-Holland
1943 Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia
1943 Zelo Bloch, Polish? Treblinka-rebel, shot to death
1943 U.S. 82nd Airborne division shot at, by "friendly fire" in Sicily
1943 Leslie Howard, actor (Romeo and Juliet), Nazis shot down his plane at 50
1943 Wa'er, shot dead by Defiance
1943 ... Reydons, wife of General Reydons, shot to death by resistance
1943 1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down
1943 Wim Gertenbach, Dutch resistance fighter (Slogan), shot by Nazis
1943 German under officers shot down in Haarlem Neth
1942 Adolf Opalka, Czech resistance fighter, shot down
1942 Josef Gabcik, Czech resistance fighter, shot by Heydrich
1942 Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot and mortally wounded in Prague
1941 Ivanka Khristova, Bulgaria, shot putter 1976 Olympics gold
1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight
1941 Jennifer Warren, born in New York City, actress, Slap Shot, Fatal Beauty, Mutant
1941 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania
1941 Margritta Gummel, born in German DR, shot putter, 1968 Olympics gold
1941 1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England
1941 Jan Keizer, Zaanse February striker, shot to death
1940 12 German aircraft shot down above England
1940 17 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 47 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 55 German aircraft shot down above England
1940 19 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 28 German aircraft shot down above England
1940 71 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 45 German aircrafts shot down over England
1940 38 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 31 German aircraft shot down over England
1939 Dirk Klop, Dutch intelligence lt, shot by German Abwehr
1939 Melinda Dillon, Hope, Arkansas, actress, Close Encounters, Slap Shot
1937 Tamara Press, U.S.S.R., shot putter/discus thrower, Oly-gold-60
1937 Lionel Conacher misses on 1st Stanley Cup penalty shot
1936 1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers
1935 Carl Austin Weiss, murderer of Sen Huey Long, shot down
1935 Earlene Dennis Brown, born in Latero, Texas, shot putter 1960 Olympics bronze
1934 1st Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher unsuccessful vs Rangers
1934 "Baby Face" Nelson, [Lester Gillis], gangster, shot by FBI at 26
1934 1st penalty shot vs Toronto Maple Leafs, Mondou (Mont) unsuccessful
1934 Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, gangster, shot dead at 30 by FBI in Ohio
1934 John Dillinger, shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago, at 33
1933 Bill Nieder, shot putter, 1960 Olympics gold
1932 Cubs shortstop Bill Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli
1932 Erv A Kelley, U.S. policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd
1932 W Parry O'Brien, California, shot putter, Oly-2 gold/silver-52, 56, 60, 64
1928 Arnold Rothstein, [A R], U.S. businessman/gambler, shot to death at 46
1927 59th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Chance Shot wins in 2:32.6
1926 Beah Richards, born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, actress/playwright, Big Shot, Generation
1922 George Roy Hill, dir, Slap Shot, Little Drummer Girl, Little Romance
1921 Johnny Otis, California, R&B talent scout, Cold Shot, Cuttin' Up
1920 Claude Tozer, cricketer (dashing NSW batsman, shot to death
1920 Robert Harron, actor (Intolerance), accidental shot to death at 27
1918 Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot and wounded after speech
1918 Alexandra Fjodorova, wife of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death at 46
1918 Botkin, personal physician of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Charitonov, cook of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Demidova, lady in waiting of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Maria Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Olga Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Tatyana Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Trupp, lackey of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 "Red Baron", [Manfred von Richtofen], shot down in WW I at 25
1917 1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st U.S. shot in WW I
1917 Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed
1917 John Connally, Gov-D/R-Texas, shot in Kennedy motorcade
1916 Hank Luisetti, NBA forward, 1st to use a one-handed shot
1914 Rose Hill, singer and actress, Nicholas Nickleby, Shot in the Dark
1912 Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning in Milwaukee
1910 Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, HW boxing champ, shot and killed
1908 Robert F Simon, Mansfield, Ohio, actor, Man who shot Liberty Valance
1907 Jim Bishop, author, The Day Lincoln was Shot
1906 Stanford White, Architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit
1901 President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later
1900 250 grave robbers shot to death
1896 Ronald Adam, Herefordshire England, actor, Phantom Shot
1890 Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny
1882 Jesse James, outlaw, shot dead at 34, in St. Joseph Mo by Robert Ford
1882 Guy Kibbee, born in El Paso, Texas, actor, Big Shot
1881 William "Billy the Kid" Bonney, shot by sheriff Pat Garrett at 21
1881 President Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker
1876 Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces and a pair of 8's
1871 The 1st human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is shot
1871 Satank, Kiowa indian chief, shot to death
1868 Thomas Carmichael Hindman, attorney/Confederate gen-mjr, shot at 40
1865 Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot
1865 John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green Virginia at 27
1865 President Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater
1865 President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth
1864 Union General O Howard orders plunderers, shot to death
1863 President Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot
1863 Martin E Green, Confederate brig-general, shot dead at 38
1862 Samuel Colt, inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47
1861 Elmer Ellsworth, U.S. warrior (Chicago Zouaves), shot to death at 23
1861 James T Jackson, U.S. landlord (doodde EE Ellsworth), shot dead)
1848 Denis-Auguste Affre, archbsp of Paris (1840-48), shot to death at 54
1814 Samuel Colt, U.S. inventor, Colt 6 shot revolver
1810 Andrew Hofer, Tyrolian rebel against French and Bavarians, shot dead
1775 Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"
1718 Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), shot dead
1676 King Philip, [Metacomet], leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death
1100 William II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44
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