Word: assassinated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Her Serene Highness, Princess Romanovskaya-Ilyinskaya (née Audrey Emery), 35, daughter of Cincinnati's multimillionaire Leather Tycoon John Josiah Emery, divorced wife of Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia (co-assassin of Rasputin); and Prince Dimitri ("Mito") Djordjadze, Georgian prince and racing motorist; in Maidstone, England...
...Chust, capital of the Carpatho-Ukraine. A military mission arrived to teach the hastily arming Ruthenians the art of warfare. A Ukrainian "Free Corps" was formed, while the Carpatho-Ukrainian militia named their organization after Colonel Eugene Konovaletz, former Ukrainian leader murdered in Amsterdam last year when an assassin, rumored to be of the Soviet secret police, placed a time bomb in his overcoat pocket...
Young, brilliant, tradition-breaking Defense Minister Colonel Luang Bipul Songgram has had a spectacular career in Siamese politics, featured by frequent promotions and escapes from assassination. Three years ago an assassin fired at him, winged him at a football game at Bangkok. Three months ago his own valet fired two shots at him, missed...
...necks, was under a ten-year sentence at hard labor for conspiring against his country with a "foreign Government"-i.e., Germany-and inciting to revolt. Fiery, handsome "Little Hitler"Codreanu might just as well have been in jail for murder, for he had a notorious reputation as a political assassin...
...five. The rest of the battalion, believing the fierce Pathans were on the warpath, hastily took up "stand-to" positions around the camp's wall. Through the darkness they saw the sepoy running away, rifle in hand. A volley of shots burst out and the young soldier assassin dropped dead...