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Assassination of Indira Gandhi - Wikipedia  Memorial at the place of assassination, Safdarjung Road, New Delhi  Indira Gandhi, the 3rd Prime Minister of India, was assassinated at 09:20 on 31 October 1984, at her Safdarjung Road, New Delhi residence. She was killed by two of her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, ... Over the next four days, thousands of Sikhs were killed in retaliatory violence...
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Operation Blue Star - Wikipedia  Operation Blue Star was an Indian military operation which occurred between 1 June and 8 ... Many Sikh soldiers in the Indian army mutinied, many Sikhs resigned from ... on 31 October 1984, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by Satwant Singh and ... comrades often turn up in the warren of tiny streets around the shrine.".
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October in history: A world war, a man of peace | YT&T: Study Hall ...  Oct 2, 2014 ... Her assassination was in retaliation for an attack she ordered on the Sikh's holiest shrine. 20 years ago, Oct. 25, 1994: In what began as a local...
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J! Archive - Show #3926, aired 2001-10-01  One of the 5 K's of Sikh belief, Kesh is the vow never to cut this ... Her assassination in 1984 was in retaliation for an attack she ordered on the Sikhs' holiest...
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Khalistan movement - Wikipedia  The Khalistan movement is a Sikh Punjabi nationalist movement, which seeks to create a ... Many Sikhs strongly maintain that the attack resulted in the desecration of the holiest ... Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards in retaliation. Following her death, thousands of Sikhs were massacred in the 1984...
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AYODHYA MOSQUE AND MUSLIM-HINDU VIOLENCE IN INDIA ...  Muslim-Hindu violence reached a new level in 1990 when the 400-year-old Babri ... Hindus claimed the mosque was built on the site of a former Hindu temple believed to ... storming across the country in a truck rigged to look like Rama's chariot. ... Violence, looting and burning in the riots in India and Pakistan in late 1992...
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Irish authorities 'knew IRA terrorists who murdered Mountbatten ...  May 16, 2015 ... On eve of Prince of Wales's visit to scene of his uncle's murder, questions ... to pursue IRA terrorists over the 1979 death of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the ... McMahon was in police custody at the time the bomb went off, meaning ... The well-placed source has told The Telegraph that he believed the Irish...
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Accidents and Natural Disasters in the Muslim World - WikiIslam  The 2005 earthquake centered in Pakistan administered Kashmir left 100,000 dead. ... As Allah's people, Muslims believe they will always be protected by him against any ... of the Devil Ritual (unofficial figures say "well over" 1,000 deaths), 1994 ..... 2003;  Hundreds killed in Hajj stampede - BBC News, February 1, 2004...
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Yigal Amir - Revolvy  The assassination took place on November 4, 1995 at the conclusion of a rally in Tel Aviv . Amir is serving a life sentence for murder plus six years for injuring Rabin's ... He was a law and computer science student at Bar-Ilan University, as well as a .... National religious conservatives and Likud party leaders believed that...
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BBC NEWS | South Asia | Golden Temple attack - your memories  Jun 9, 2004 ... Did anyone knew how many Hindu Punjabis were killed by Sikh ... Bhindranwale should not have used the Golden Temple as the venue for ... Just my 2 cents. ... the riots of 1984, Sikhs were burnt alive , and killed brutally and the part that .... and so her and some of her friends were leaving Delhi for Punjab.
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Massacre at the Palace: Jonathan Gregson: 9780786868780 ...  Editorial Reviews. From Publishers Weekly. On June 1, 2001, Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal ... It was the bloodiest, most complete massacre of any royal family ever recorded and .... On June 1, 2001, Crown Prince Dipendra shot his father (Nepal's 11th king), mother, siblings, and five other relatives before killing himself.
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Charlotte Corday and the Bathtub Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat ...  Jul 31, 2012 ... On 13 July 1793, the eve of the fourth anniversary of the sacking of the Bastille, ... Charlotte Corday and the Bathtub Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat ... skin disease contracted while hiding from enemies in the Paris sewers.
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Did Rabin's assassination truly alter the course of Israeli history ...  Oct 31, 2015 ... Yigal Amir, serving a life sentence for the murder of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. ... for extremism as a law student at Bar-Ilan University, which attracted the best and ... At least once, Ephron notes, Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu ... In January 1995, Amir hoped to murder Rabin during a planned...
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The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky  Page 5  January 30, 1997 ... This is the 49th anniversary of the day a Hindu fanatic shot the leader of India's ... The ashes are to be Immersed In the Ganges River today, the 49th ... After his death, Gandhi's ashes were divided and sent to all the states of India to be ... Unlike some other militant Islamic groups, Hamas is not known to...
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BBC ON THIS DAY | 21 | 1991: Bomb kills India's former leader Rajiv ...  Rajiv Gandhi, the former Indian prime minister, is assassinated in a bomb attack in Tamil Nadu. ... Rajiv Gandhi's death has shocked the world and marks the end of the Nehru dynasty that had led ... After his brother Sanjay was killed in an air crash in 1980, he gave up his job as an airline pilot and ... Stories From 21 May.
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9 Infamous Assassins and the World Leaders They Dispatched ...  Sometimes the assassination of a leader is so shocking and profound that it triggers what ... allegedly fired three shots that killed President Kennedy and wounded Texas Gov. ... He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. .... use of power in the Indian National Congress during and after the partitioning of the country.
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Rajiv Gandhi - Wikipedia  Rajiv Ratna Gandhi was the Prime Minister of India, serving from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the 1984 assassination of his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to become the youngest Indian ... In 1991 the Indian government posthumously awarded Gandhi the Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian award. At the...
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IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten: Guardian reporting from 1979 | UK ...  May 19, 2015 ... 1979: Lord Mountbatten killed by IRA bomb ... As the last viceroy of British India and first governor general of independent India, the death of...
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Did they get Mata Hari wrong? | World news | The Guardian  Oct 16, 2001 ... Eighty-four years to the day after Mata Hari's execution by firing squad at the ... she was not guilty of the spying charges for which she was convicted in 1917 - or at ... Born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle to a well-to-do Dutch shopkeeper and his ... They thought she was another German spy, Clara Benedix.
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Killing Rajiv Gandhi: Dhanu's sacrificial metamorphosis in death  names; all that is clear is that she was the daughter of Rajaratnam,3 a ... his comrades and embraced the sufferings of the Tamil people under the ... to power (1) Gandhi would not only resist any progression towards a .... Suicidal commitments therefore began for the Tigers around 1983/1984 as .... bomb between them.
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Benazir Bhutto - New World Encyclopedia  She was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1988, only to be deposed 20 months later. ... Bhutto achieved the distinction of becoming the first female head of ... December 27, while leaving a rally in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, she was killed ... She was sworn in as Prime Minister of a coalition government on December 2,...