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Georges Watin, 71, whose attempt to assassinate French ...  Feb 21, 1994 ... ... Day of the Jackal," died Saturday of a heart attack at his home in. ... On Aug. 22, 1962, bullets shattered the windows of de Gaulle's limousine as it was driven through a Paris suburb, but the president ... Mr. Watin told the newspaper ABC Color last month that he did not regret his attempt to kill de Gaulle.
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September 1961 - Wikipedia  The following events occurred in September 1961: Wikimedia Commons has media related to .... France's President Charles de Gaulle escaped an assassination attempt as his limousine took him from Paris to his country home at ... attempt and an August 22, 1962, machine gunning of his limousine, came closest to success.
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J! Archive - Show #4857, aired 2005-10-25  (Alex: We're celebrating his bicentennial this year.) ... $200, 22 .... August 22, 1962 when his limousine was attacked near Paris...
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August 1962 - Wikipedia  ... Clamart, being driven in his Citron DS from Paris to the ... Jean Bastien-Thiry, attacked the limousine.
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The Plot To Kill Charles de Gaulle | Christopher Othen  Aug 7, 2016 ... Wednesday, 22 August 1962. Ten past eight ... They didn't know that Charles De Gaulle's limousine sometimes used this route. And men from...
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The Year, 1959. The City, Paris. The House, Windsor. - NYTimes.com  Dec 21, 1989 ... dinner parties for which the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were famous. ... it would likely have become one more museum crowded with ''do not touch'' ... a private apartment, where he will stay when visiting Paris from his house ... by his abdication in 1936, the ex-King Edward VIII, now the Duke of Windsor...
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Place de la Bastille, Paris (Part 4) - Discover France  The attackers were mainly seeking to acquire the large quantities of arms and ... on the 14th there were over 13,600 kg (30,000 lb) of gunpowder stored at the Bastille. ... Decree from the National Assembly, praising those who stormed the Bastille. ... on July 17, 1789 with the publication of the Rvolutions de Paris  which...
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Comedian killed in Corvair crash - Jan 13, 1962 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Comedian killed in Corvair crash on Jan 13, 1962. ... Ralph Nader's groundbreaking 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In ... The publicity surrounding GM's actions helped make Unsafe at Any Speed a ... sanction to the military order known as the Knights Templar, declaring it to be an...
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American Victims of Terrorist Attacks | Jewish Virtual Library  April 18, 1983. Beirut, Lebanon. A truck-bomb detonated by a remote control exploded in front of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 employees, including the...
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Rodney King - Wikipedia  Rodney Glen King III (April 2, 1965  June 17, 2012) was an African American taxi driver who became internationally known after being beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers following a high-speed car chase on March 3, 1991. A witness, George Holliday, videotaped much of the beating from his balcony ... The trial of the four in a federal district court ended on April 16, 1993, with...
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TRUE CRIME: The Incompetent Kidnapping of Frank Sinatra, Jr ...  Aug 20, 2008 ... Junior saw this as an opportunity to make his own mark and not ... Barry Keenan grew up in L.A. and attended University High School, ... This is a story about a kidnapping, and how Keenan saw it as his ... Keenan's original plan was to abduct Frank Jr. from LA's Ambassador Hotel on November 22, 1963.
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President Kennedy Limousine Research - The Henry Ford  This artifact is exhibited to the public at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan ... to modify the car in Cincinnati, Ohio and then return it to Washington D.C. ... 1961 Lincoln Continental Presidential Limousine Used by John F. Kennedy (interior) .... Detroit Free Press Newspaper for November 23, 1963, "Kennedy Slain!
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November 18, 1978 . Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples ...  Nov 18, 1978 ... When Guyanese authorities arrived at Jonestown on November 19, 1978, the ... several relatives of Peoples Temple members, and the news media covering ... He had been attacked by a man with a knife, but other Peoples...
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At Funeral of Kim Jong-il, American-Made Lincoln Limousines Stand ...  Dec 28, 2011 ... Almost as soon as the funeral procession began, aficionados filled an online ... carrying Kim Jong-il's body would not have been outfitted for a coffin, which ... body and the Lincoln limo used as a hearse in the 1994 funeral of his father. ... reading too much into North Korea's use in the state funeral of a car...
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jeopardy/101_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THE 1980s | "I am a nervous wreck", said this ousted leader on route from an Alps resort to the Riviera | Jean-Claude Duvalier. right: Michael. Wrong:.
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Vice President Nixon is attacked - May 13, 1958 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Vice President Nixon is attacked on May 13, 1958. ... then-Vice President Richard Nixon's limousine with rocks in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Things you didn't know about The Great Escape: McQueen himself ...  Jan 2, 2016 ... Hilts (Steve McQueen) strings a wire across the road to obtain a motorcycle. ... THE GREAT ESCAPE, Steve McQueen, 1963 ... One day, the police in the German town where the film was shot set up a speed trap near the set. ... Although Steve McQueen did his own motorcycle riding, there was one stunt he...
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60 Years Later, Doubt Clings to Lindbergh Baby Kidnaping Case ...  Feb 9, 1992 ... YOU ARE HERE: LAT HomeCollections. 60 Years Later, Doubt Clings to Lindbergh Baby Kidnaping Case : Crime: The trial of Bruno Richard ... Hauptmann, a 36-year-old German-born carpenter, was arrested Sept. ... the ransom to pay for gas at a service station and police found $14,600 in his garage.
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A Fleet of Taxis Did Not Really Save Paris From the Germans During ...  Jul 24, 2014 ... Parisian taxis assemble before being dispatched to the front. ... On the night of September 6, 1914, as the fate of France was hanging in the ... I museum, located on the Marne battlefield, near Meaux, about 25 miles east of Paris. .... the fighting came by train) Joffre and his British allies repulsed the German...
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He Pimped His Ride - The New York Times  Sep 18, 2005 ... In 1972 he himself was elevated to the 14th Floor as a G.M. vice president ... the one bearing his own name, turned out to be an albatross. ... the head of Pontiac in 1965 and began visiting Hollywood, he was ... A half year later he was gone. ... The sports-car idea was meant to be DeLorean's revenge on the...
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Mind of an Assassin: Ravaillac and the Murder of Henry IV of France  (1) So begins the confrontation between the authorities and Francois Ravaillac, who stabbed to death Henry IV on 14 May 1610, while the king's carriage was...