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TIL about Dr. Samuel Mudd Sr., an American physician who rendered aid to John Wilkes Booth after President Lincoln’s assassination and then covered up Booth’s location when questioned by authorities. Mudd was convicted of conspiring to assassinate the president but avoided execution by one vote.

by whatilearned May 15, 2023, 6:29 pm

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Why did someone attempt to assassinate the car pope?

by CopyPastaArchive May 15, 2023, 1:27 am

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TIL about Operation Nemesis, a secret plan executed by Armenia to hunt down and assassinate perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide. The assassins successfully killed 11 of the highest ranking officials responsible for orchestrating the genocide across at least 5 different countries.

by whatilearned April 10, 2023, 9:58 pm

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TIL In October 1809 Friedrich Staps attempted to assassinate Napoleon but was captured. Napoleon himself interrogated the would be assassin. On the possibility of being pardoned Staps said, ‘I would notwithstanding seize the first opportunity of taking your life.’ and he was executed on the 17th.

by whatilearned March 25, 2023, 12:40 pm

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TIL that among the many CIA plots to assassinate, overthrow, or humiliate Fidel Castro, one plan called for poisoning him so that his beard would fall out.

by whatilearned March 18, 2023, 2:03 pm

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TIL: Samuel Byck tried to assassinate President Nixon by hijacking a plane and crashing it into the White House. Byck drove to BWI, shot a police officer, stormed a Delta aircraft and shot the two pilots. Police stopped Byck before the plane ever moved, but Nixon was in the White House at the time.

by whatilearned December 5, 2022, 2:19 am

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TIL nearly 60 senators were part of the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar, but he was stabbed 23 times, with only 1 wound being fatal. Caesar ultimately died at the base of the statue of his former rival, Pompey the Great.

by whatilearned November 22, 2022, 6:56 pm

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TIL The night before Emperor Hirohito’s surrender broadcast army officers launched a coup. The officers occupied the Imperial Palace trying to destroy the Emporer’s surrender record and assassinate officials. The plan failed when the record was smuggled out and the military didn’t support the coup.

by whatilearned October 22, 2022, 9:49 am

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TIL the man who tried to assassinate president Ronald Reagan did so in order to impress actress Jodie Foster after watching her on Taxi Driver, which also showed a presidential candidate assassination plan based on a true-story attempted assassination

by whatilearned September 15, 2022, 4:12 am

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TIL that an umbrella was used by Bulgarian spies during the Cold War to assassinate a dissident by firing a pellet filled with ricin

by whatilearned August 3, 2022, 4:45 pm

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TIL C. J. Lewis tried to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II in 1981 and two years later he tried to escape from psych ward to kill Prince Charles

by whatilearned July 27, 2022, 9:36 am

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TIL that two different women with no known connections attempted to assassinate then-president Gerald Ford within 17 days of one another in 1975.

by whatilearned July 27, 2022, 5:30 am

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