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Date | Event |
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1100-08-02 |
King William II of England (William Rufus) is killed by an arrow shot by Sir Walter Tyrell while hunting in the New Forest. |
1775-04-19 |
American Revolution begins - Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world" |
1792-03-16 |
King Gustav III of Sweden is shot Count Anckarström at a masked ball at the Opera; he dies on March 29. |
1792-03-29 |
King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera just 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf. |
1804-07-12 |
Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a duel. |
1805-10-21 |
Battle of Trafalgar, British Admiral Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet but shot and killed |
1837-11-07 |
In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy shot dead (age 34) by pro-slavery mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time. |
1863-07-30 |
President Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot |
1864-11-22 |
Union General O Howard orders plunderers be shot to death |
1865-04-14 |
President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater |
1865-05-23 |
Flag flown at full mast over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot |
1871-11-21 |
The first human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is shot |
1881-07-02 |
US President James Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker; Garfield died 79 days later |
1890-01-02 |
Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny |
1894-01-07 |
Early 5 second film of Fred Ott sneezing shot by Edison Manufacturing - 1st ever copyrited |
1898-02-22 |
Black postmaster lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC |
1900-04-04 |
Assassination attempt on Prince of Wales, later British King Edward VII when shot by Jean-Baptiste Sipido in protest over Boer war |
1901-09-06 |
US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York |
1909-10-26 |
Itō Hirobumi, Resident-General of Korea, and former Japanese Prime Minister, shot and killed by Korean nationalist in Harbin, China |
1912-10-14 |
Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning in Milwaukee |
1915-04-18 |
French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I. |
1917-10-23 |
1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st US shot in WW I |
1918-04-21 |
World War I: German fighter ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France. Canadian pilot Captain Arthur Roy Brown was credited with the kill. |
1919-04-10 |
Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos. |
1920-10-23 |
African demonstrators shot in Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
1927-06-11 |
59th Belmont: Earl Sande riding Chance Shot wins in 2:32.6 |
1931-03-23 |
Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle for independence. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused. |
1932-07-06 |
Cubs shortstop Bill Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli |
1934-01-15 |
While robbing the First National Bank in East Chicago, Indianapolis, Dillinger is shot several times by officer William O'Malley, but survives because he is wearing a bullet proof vest. |
1934-10-22 |
In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents. |
1934-11-11 |
1st penalty shot vs Toronto Maple Leafs, Mondou (Mont) unsuccessful |
1934-12-11 |
1st Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher unsuccessful vs Rangers |
1935-10-23 |
Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre. |
1936-02-08 |
1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers |
1937-03-25 |
Lionel Conacher misses on 1st Stanley Cup penalty shot |
1940-05-27 |
World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 97 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops. |
1940-08-08 |
31 German aircraft shot down over England |
1940-08-11 |
38 German aircrafts shot down above England |
1940-08-13 |
Hermann Goering's "Adler Tag" (Eagle day); 45-48 German aircraft shot down over Southern England (Battle of Britain) |
1940-08-16 |
45 German aircrafts shot down over England |
1940-08-18 |
71 German aircraft shot down above England |
1940-09-09 |
28 German aircraft shot down above England |
1940-09-18 |
19 German aircraft shot down above England |
1940-09-27 |
55 German aircrafts shot down above England |
1940-09-30 |
47 German aircraft shot down above England |
1940-10-02 |
17 German aircrafts shot down above England |
1940-10-04 |
12 German aircrafts shot down above England |
1941-05-11 |
1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England |
1941-08-07 |
551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania |
1941-09-11 |
FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot at on sight |
1942-05-27 |
Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi "Deputy Reich Protector of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" is shot & mortally wounded in Prague in in Operation Anthropoid |
1943-01-30 |
German under officers shot down in Haarlem Neth |
1943-02-06 |
1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down |
1943-06-05 |
President Laurel was shot around 4 times with a 45 caliber pistol while playing golf at the Wack Wack Golf Course in Mandaluyong |
1943-07-11 |
US 82nd Airborne division shot at by "friendly fire" in Sicily |
1943-08-18 |
Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia |
1943-11-03 |
P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North Holland |
1944-01-03 |
World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero. |
1944-03-27 |
40 Jewish policemen in Riga, Latvia, ghetto are shot by the Gestapo |
1944-04-26 |
1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down |
1948-04-20 |
Walter P Reuther UAW pres shot & wounded at his home in Detroit |
1948-07-14 |
Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament. |
1949-06-15 |
Phils Eddie Waitkus, shot by Ruth Steinhagen, 19, at Eddgewater Hotel |
1950-04-11 |
US B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia |
1953-07-29 |
US bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok |
1954-04-22 |
NBA adopts 24-second shot clock & 6 team-foul rule |
1954-05-08 |
1st shot-put over 60' (18.29 m)-Parry O'Brien, Los Angeles, CA |
1954-09-06 |
US plane shot down above Siberia |
1954-10-30 |
1st use of 24-sec shot clock in pro basketball (Rochester vs Boston) |
1954-11-07 |
US spy plane shot down North of Japan |
1955-06-22 |
US air patrol plane shot down above Bering sea |
1955-07-27 |
Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die |
1955-09-01 |
2 Egyptian fighters shot down over Israel |
1958-09-02 |
U.S. Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew lost. |
1959-04-09 |
Bill Sharman hits a NBA record 56 consecutive foul shot |
1962-07-06 |
Nuclear test shot Sedan; part of Operation Plowshare. |
1962-08-17 |
E German border guards shot & kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector |
1964-03-10 |
US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany |
1965-02-21 |
Rights activist Malcolm X is shot dead by Nation of Islam followers at Audubon Ballroom in New York |
1967-02-22 |
Sling-shot goal post & 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL |
1968-02-01 |
Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head |
1968-02-06 |
Former Pres Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one |
1968-04-09 |
Minn's Wayne Connelly is 1st to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot |
1968-06-06 |
Senator robert kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night. |
1969-08-18 |
Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming "Ned Kelly" |
1969-10-11 |
Three people shot dead during street violence in the loyalist Shankill area of Belfast |
1969-10-16 |
100-1 shot NY Mets beat Orioles 5-3 & win 66th World Series in 5 |
1970-03-06 |
A Catholic man is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast, North Ireland |
1970-04-03 |
As part of a new 'get tough' policy in Northern Ireland, Ian Freeland of the British Army, warned that those throwing petrol bombs could be shot dead |
1970-07-31 |
Daniel O'Hagan (19), a Catholic civilian, is shot dead by the British Army during a serious riot in the New Lodge Road area of Belfast, Northern Ireland |
1970-09-30 |
A Protestant man is shot and killed by Loyalists in Belfast, North Ireland |
1970-11-16 |
Two men are shot dead by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) |
1970-12-23 |
A Protestant man is shot dead at his home in Belfast, North Ireland |
1971-01-27 |
The body of a man who had been shot dead is found in Belfast |
1971-02-06 |
Bernard Watt (28), a Catholic civilian, is shot and killed by the British Army (BA) during street disturbances in Ardoyne, Belfast |
1971-02-06 |
James Saunders (22), a member of the IRA, is shot and killed by the British Army during a gun battle near the Oldpark Road, Belfast |
1971-02-26 |
Two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are shot and killed by the Irish Republican Army while on a mobile patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast, North Ireland |
1971-05-15 |
Irish Republican Army member William 'Billy' Reid is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast |
1971-08-07 |
A Catholic man is shot dead by a British soldier in Belfast |
1971-08-08 |
A British soldier is shot dead by the Irish Republican Army in Belfast |
1971-08-11 |
4 people are shot dead in separate incidents in Belfast; three of them by the British Army, as violence continues following the introduction of Internment and Operation Demetrius |
1971-10-23 |
Two female members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) are shot dead by the British Army in the Lower Falls area of Belfast |
1971-10-23 |
Three Catholic civilians are shot dead by the British Army during an attempted robbery in Newry, County Down |
1971-10-24 |
A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is shot dead by undercover Royal Ulster Constabulary officers during a bomb attack in Belfast |
1971-10-25 |
A man dies two days after being shot during an Irish Republican Army attack on the British Army in Belfast |
1971-11-18 |
A British soldier is shot dead by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast |
1971-11-27 |
Two Customs officials are shot by an Irish Republican Army sniper firinge upon a British Army patrol investigating a bomb attack on a Customs Post near Newry, County Armagh |
1971-12-07 |
An off duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment is shot dead by members of the Irish Republican Army in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland |
1972-01-27 |
Two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are shot dead in an attack on their patrol car in the Creggan Road, Derry |
1972-01-30 |
'Bloody Sunday': 27 unarmed civilians are shot (of whom 14 were killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry; this is the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during 'the Troubles' |
1972-02-10 |
Two British soldiers are killed in a land mine attack near Cullyhanna, County Armagh; An IRA member is shot dead during an exchange of gunfire with RUC officers |
1972-02-25 |
Attempted assassination of Minister of State for Home Affairs John Taylor who is shot a number of times (the Official Irish Republican Army later claimed responsibility) |
1972-03-01 |
Two Catholic teenagers were shot dead by the Royal Ulster Constabulary while 'joy riding' in a stolen car in Belfast |
1972-03-14 |
Two IRA members shot dead by British soldiers in the Bogside area of Derry |
1972-04-15 |
A member of the Official Irish Republican Army is shot dead by British soldiers at Joy Street in the Markets area of Belfast close to his home |
1972-04-15 |
A member of the British Army is shot dead by the Official IRA in the Divis area of Belfast. |
1972-04-16 |
Two British soldiers are shot dead by the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) in separate incidents in Derry |
1972-05-14 |
A 13 year old Catholic girl is shot dead by Loyalist paramilitaries in Ballymurphy, Belfast |
1972-06-19 |
A Catholic civilian is shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the Cracked Cup Social Club, Belfast |
1972-07-02 |
Two Catholic civilians are shot and killed in Belfast by Loyalist paramilitaries, probably the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) |
1972-07-05 |
Two Protestant brothers are found shot dead outside of Belfast (There was speculation that they were killed by Loyalists because they had Catholic girlfriends) |
1972-07-18 |
The 100th British soldier to die in the conflict is shot by a sniper in Belfast |
1972-07-22 |
2 Catholics are abducted, beaten, and shot dead in a Loyalist area of Belfast |
1972-08-14 |
A Catholic civilian is shot dead during an IRA attack on a British Army patrol in Belfast |
1972-08-16 |
Morocco King Hassan II's B727 shot at |
1972-10-12 |
Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot |
1972-10-16 |
2 members of the Offical Irish Republican Army are shot dead by the British Army in County Tyrone |
1973-06-25 |
Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m |
1974-03-05 |
Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot |
1974-12-05 |
1st Wash Cap penalty shot, Tom Williams unsuccessful vs Buff Sabres |
1974-12-05 |
Tom Williams is unsuccessful on Wash Capitals 1st NHL penalty shot |
1975-02-01 |
1st successful Wash Cap penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs Vancouver Canucks |
1975-02-01 |
Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot |
1975-02-08 |
Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders |
1975-05-09 |
Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record) |
1975-05-10 |
Brian Oldfield of US put shot 75', an unofficial record |
1975-10-22 |
Turkish diplomat shot to death in Vienna |
1975-10-24 |
Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris |
1976-01-09 |
Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot |
1976-07-30 |
4 Protestant civilians were shot dead at a pub off Milltown Road, Belfast; the attack was claimed by the Republican Action Force |
1976-08-10 |
A Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer is shot dead by the British Army as he drove along a road in Belfast; his car then went out of control and killed 3 children, sparking a series of "peace rallies" throughout the month by a group that became known as 'Peace People' |
1977-01-16 |
Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders |
1977-04-07 |
German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light. |
1977-11-13 |
25th Islander shut-out Resch 6-0 Gilles scores on 5th penalty shot |
1977-11-19 |
Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 3rd penalty shot against Islanders |
1978-01-28 |
Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders |
1978-03-06 |
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Ga |
1978-03-07 |
Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders |
1978-03-20 |
Flyers' Rick MacLeash scores on 6th penalty shot against Islanders |
1978-12-05 |
Islanders took 28 shots in 1 period vs Penguins Penguins' Ross Lonsberry failed on 7th penalty shot against Islanders |
1979-01-17 |
NY Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against NY Rangers |
1979-08-03 |
Fastest jai-alai shot (188 mph), Jose Arieto at Newport Jai Alai, RI |
1979-10-06 |
Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1'9" |
1979-11-24 |
Kings' Charley Simmer fails on 8th penalty shot against Islanders |
1980-03-21 |
On TV show Dallas, J.R. is shot |
1980-11-21 |
Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill) in the US |
1980-12-14 |
Anders Kailur scores on 6th Islander penalty shot |
1981-03-30 |
Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley III |
1981-04-11 |
Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him |
1981-04-17 |
Ranger's Anders Hedberg is 2nd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot |
1981-05-13 |
Pope John Paul II is shot and critically wounded by Turkish gunman Mehemet Ali Agca in St Peter's Square, Vatican City |
1981-05-30 |
Bangladesh Pres Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers |
1982-03-17 |
4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador |
1982-04-12 |
3 CBS employees shot to death in NYC parking lot |
1982-12-08 |
Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot |
1983-02-17 |
Bob Bourne fails on 8th Islander penalty shot |
1983-04-09 |
Caps 2-Isles 6 -Patrick Semis-Denis Potvin fails on penalty shot |
1983-06-25 |
Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m |
1983-08-28 |
Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour |
1983-09-01 |
Korean Boeing 747, flight 007, strays into Siberia & is shot down by a Soviet jet |
1983-12-27 |
Pope John Paul II pardons man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca) |
1984-01-26 |
Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders |
1984-04-17 |
During Libyan Embassy demonstration in London, British police officer Yvonne Fletcher shot dead |
1984-04-24 |
Oiler's Wayne Gretzky is 3rd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot |
1984-10-13 |
Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders |
1984-11-18 |
Flyers' Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders |
1984-12-17 |
NJ Devils 1st penalty shot-Rocky Trottier scores against Edmonton |
1985-01-05 |
Bryan Trottier failed on 9th Islander penalty shot |
1985-01-13 |
Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders |
1985-02-08 |
Bruce Morris, Marshall Univ, makes a 92' 5½" basketball shot |
1985-04-14 |
Bob Carpenter is unsuccessful on Wash Caps 1st playoff penalty shot |
1986-08-20 |
Postal worker Patrick Sherrill shot 14 fellow workers dead in Edmond, Oklahoma |
1987-02-04 |
Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954 |
1987-02-15 |
Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot |
1987-03-26 |
Natl Fed of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet) |
1987-12-07 |
43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots) |
1988-03-06 |
3 IRA suspects shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers |
1990-09-06 |
US citizen is shot in Kuwait; oil markets surge on aggressive U.S. statements toward Iraq |
1991-01-17 |
Operation Desert Storm: 1st US pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn) |
1991-05-03 |
Cam Neely is injured on a cheap shot by Ulf Samuelsson, an injury that would limit him to only 162 games for the remainder of his NHL career and force him to retire at 31 |
1991-05-05 |
A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after a Salvadoran man is shot by police. |
1991-07-08 |
Major league umpire Steve Palermo & former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed |
1992-06-19 |
Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa is shot twice in NYC |
1993-01-25 |
Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders. |
1993-04-28 |
NY Islanders beat Wash Caps 4 to 1 in playoffs, Caps Dale Hunter attacks Pierre Turgeon after scoring, in hockey's worst cheap shot |
1993-08-19 |
George Tiller, abortion doctor, shot in his arms by Rachelle Shannon |
1993-09-22 |
A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia. |
1994-04-06 |
The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down. |
1996-03-13 |
Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 teacher are shot dead by spree killer Thomas Hamilton who then commits suicide. |
1996-06-26 |
Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin |
1996-09-07 |
Rap artist Tupac Shahur shot multiple times in drive by shooting in Las Vegas, dies 6 days later |
1996-11-07 |
NFL/Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier, is shot several times |
1998-10-11 |
A Congo Airlines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 40 people. |
1999-02-04 |
Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city. |
2000-12-24 |
The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot during the robbery. |
2001-07-20 |
Italy: The 27th Annual G8 summit opens in Genoa. An Italian protester in Genoa, Carlo Giuliani, is shot by police. |
2002-05-06 |
Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is shot and killed by an animal rights activist. |
2002-12-23 |
A MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25, making it the first time in history that an aircraft and an unmanned drone had engaged in combat. |
2004-03-19 |
A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in the 1950s is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the crew are left in place, pending further investigations. |
2004-03-19 |
Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20. |
2005-08-12 |
Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE (Tamil Tigers) sniper at his home. |
2005-12-06 |
Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China. |
2005-12-07 |
Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of US federal air marshals at Miami International Airport. |
2006-04-08 |
Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Ontario, Canada. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos motorcycle gang. |
2008-06-25 |
Atlantis Plastics shooting, An employee shot and killed five people after an argument, which ended in the gunman's suicide in Henderson, Kentucky. |
2011-08-06 |
A helicopter containing members of Navy SEAL 6 is shot down in Afghanistan killing 38. |
2012-03-13 |
19 people are shot dead in a bus attack in Ethiopia |
2012-08-13 |
Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus is stripped of her shot-put gold medal after failing a drugs test |
2012-09-30 |
Two opposition Venezuelan politicians are shot dead a week before the presidential election |
2012-10-24 |
3 people are shot dead and two critically wounded after being shot by an unknown gunman in Downey, California |
2012-11-06 |
5 people are shot at a poultry processing plant in Fresno, California |
2012-12-14 |
28 people, including 20 children, are shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut |
2013-01-25 |
6 civilians and 1 police officer are shot dead and 456 people are injured during a nationwide protest against Egypt's 2011 revolution |
2014-02-03 |
2 students are shot & killed in a school shooting in Moscow |
2014-06-14 |
49 people are killed after a Ukrainian Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down |
2014-07-17 |
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashes (presumed shot down by either pro-Russian separatists or the Ukrainian militia), killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board |
2014-09-18 |
8 people (including 2 children) are shot dead in Bell, Florida |
2015-10-27 |
Three Palestinians shot dead after knife attacks: Israeli army |
2015-11-03 |
9-year-old shot to death in Chicago alley |
2015-12-11 |
Honduras national soccer player Arnold Peralta shot dead at shopping mall |
2016-02-28 |
Ohio pastor shot dead at church, and his brother has been arrested |
2016-03-10 |
Pro-gun mom shot in the back by 4-year-old son |
2016-04-20 |
Thousands rally to call for release of Israeli soldier who shot Palestinian assailant |
2016-05-29 |
Cincinnati zoo gorilla shot dead as boy falls into enclosure |
2016-06-11 |
Former Voice contestant Christina Grimmie shot dead in Orlando |
2016-07-12 |
2 Bailiffs Shot to Death at Michigan Courthouse |
2016-07-18 |
3 officers shot and killed in Baton Rouge |
2016-08-14 |
Muslim cleric and associate shot to death on New York street |
2016-09-18 |
Man stabs eight at Minnesota mall, is shot to death by off-duty officer |
2016-09-18 |
Minnesota stabbing: Eight injured, suspect shot dead |
2016-09-22 |
Man fatally shot in Charlotte protests over US police shooting |
2016-10-09 |
2 Police Officers Are Shot and Killed in Palm Springs, Calif. |
2016-10-17 |
US sprinter Tyson Gay's daughter, 15, shot dead in Kentucky |
2017-01-07 |
Fort Lauderdale airport shooting: Five people shot dead by Florida gunman |
2017-05-21 |
13-1 shot Cloud Computing springs upset in Preakness |
2017-06-08 |
Perfect shot: Durant's late 3 gives Warriors 3-0 Finals lead |
2018-02-15 |
Ex-student arrested after 17 shot dead at Florida high school |
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Date | Event |
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1814-07-19 |
Samuel Colt, Hartford Connecticut, US inventor/industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver), (d. 1862) |
1868-05-03 |
Julia Arthur, The Woman the Germans Shot |
1870-10-01 |
Pieter van Essen, Dutch artillery officer/inventor (grape-shot shells) |
1877-02-25 |
Aleksander Bogusinski, The Shot |
1878-11-17 |
George MacFarlane, Half Shot at Sunrise |
1878-9-17 |
Vincenzo Tommasini, A Pistol Shot |
1882-03-06 |
Guy Kibbee, El Paso TX, actor (Big Shot) |
1883-03-11 |
Homer Croy, I Shot Jesse James |
1890-12-15 |
Rudy Bowman, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1891-01-12 |
Mary Read, Half Shot at Sunrise |
1896-11-21 |
Marvin Loback, The Big Shot |
1896-12-31 |
Ronald Adam, Herefordshire England, actor (Phantom Shot) |
1905-03-30 |
Bryan 'Slim' Hightower, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1907-03-23 |
Veljko Maricic, Winnetou: The Last Shot |
1907-05-24 |
Willis Bouchey, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1907-11-21 |
Jim Bishop, author (The Day Lincoln was Shot) |
1908-12-02 |
Robert F Simon, Mansfield Oh, actor (Man who shot Liberty Valance) |
1908-12-02 |
Robert F. Simon, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1910-03-15 |
Philip Mitchell, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1910-08-01 |
Roberta Robinson, Half Shot at Sunrise |
1910-10-05 |
Jirí Kostka, The Last Shot |
1912-01-13 |
Paul Birch, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1912-02-16 |
Assia Noris, A Pistol Shot |
1912-12-13 |
Dusan Antonijevic, Winnetou: The Last Shot |
1913-11-28 |
Harry Bartell, I Shot an Arrow into the Air |
1914-06-05 |
Rose Hill, singer/actress (Nicholas Nickleby, Shot in the Dark) |
1914-06-05 |
Rose Hill, A Shot in the Dark |
1915-04-25 |
Richard Deming, A Shot in the Arm |
1915-12-10 |
Asmund Rostrup, The Echo of a Shot |
1916-02-11 |
Saulo Benavente, Alias Big Shot |
1916-06-16 |
Hank Luisetti, NBA forward (1st to use a one-handed shot) |
1916-07-24 |
Victor Baring, A Shot in the Dark |
1916-08-31 |
Louise Montana, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1916-11-26 |
Gerald Tueber, Slap Shot |
1917-02-27 |
John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), shot in Kennedy motorcade |
1917-10-23 |
Ralph Morse, Moon Shot |
1917-11-09 |
Marvin Weldon, Slap Shot |
1918-04-04 |
Gregg Dunn, Shot by Request |
1921-03-05 |
Austin Dempster, A Shot in the Dark |
1921-07-20 |
Dennis Selinger, Long Shot |
1922-08-15 |
Peter Berkos, Slap Shot |
1922-11-17 |
Vanda Godsell, A Shot in the Dark |
1922-12-20 |
George Roy Hill, dir (Slap Shot, Little Drummer Girl, Little Romance) |
1922-12-23 |
Micheline Ostermeyer, France, shot-put/discus thrower (Oly-gold-1948) |
1922-9-01 |
Wendie Lee, I Shot Billy the Kid |
1923-10-25 |
Bobby Thomson, Miracle Ball: The Hunt for the Shot Heard Around the World |
1923-11-18 |
Alan Shepard, Moon Shot |
1923-11-21 |
Howard Greene, A Shot in the Dark |
1924-03-01 |
Deke Slayton, Moon Shot |
1925-9-27 |
Robert Edwards, The Shot That Shook the World |
1926-01-06 |
Ralph Branca, Shot Heard 'Round the World |
1926-07-12 |
Beah Richards, Vicksburg MS, actress/playwright (Big Shot, Generation) |
1927-06-29 |
Maurice Kaufmann, A Shot in the Dark |
1928-04-23 |
Howard Benedict, Moon Shot |
1928-05-21 |
Miha Baloh, Winnetou: The Last Shot |
1928-07-14 |
Moira Redmond, A Shot in the Dark |
1928-10-19 |
Denis Cameron, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1929-03-21 |
Joe Nolan, Slap Shot |
1929-05-01 |
Sonny James, Slap Shot |
1932-01-28 |
W Parry O'Brien, California, shot putter (Oly-2 gold/silver-52, 56, 60, 64) |
1932-03-16 |
Tom Pittman, High School Big Shot |
1932-05-13 |
Dan Hodge, One More Shot |
1932-08-08 |
Joseph Hoover, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1932-10-25 |
Alberto Argibay, Alias Big Shot |
1933-03-15 |
Barbara English, Shot by Request |
1933-06-15 |
Brian Duffy, The Man Who Shot the 60s |
1933-08-10 |
Bill Nieder, shot putter, (Olympic-gold-1960) |
1934-04-07 |
Dick Roberge, Slap Shot |
1934-06-16 |
Ole Ishøy, The Echo of a Shot |
1934-10-04 |
Connie Madigan, Slap Shot |
1934-9-02 |
Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky: Long Shot Close Up |
1935-07-11 |
Earlene Dennis Brown, Latero Tx, shot putter (Olympic-bronze-1960) |
1935-07-13 |
Don Reiker, A Double Shot of Nepenthe |
1936-04-26 |
Ted Otis, I Shot an Arrow into the Air |
1937-05-09 |
Danny Belisle, Slap Shot |
1937-05-10 |
Tamara Press, USSR, shot putter/discus thrower (Oly-gold-60) |
1937-11-11 |
Warner Wolf, Miracle Ball: The Hunt for the Shot Heard Around the World |
1938-02-25 |
Blake Ball, Slap Shot |
1939-10-13 |
Melinda Dillon, Hope Ark, actress (Close Encounters, Slap Shot) |
1940-11-05 |
Elke Sommer, [Elke Schletz], Berlin Germany, actress (A Shot in the Dark, The Oscar) |
1940-11-05 |
Elke Sommer, A Shot in the Dark |
1941-05-13 |
Brigitte Kolerus, The Echo of a Shot |
1941-06-29 |
Margritta Gummel, German DR, shot putter (Olympic-gold-1968) |
1941-08-12 |
Jennifer Warren, NYC, actress (Slap Shot, Fatal Beauty, Mutant) |
1941-08-12 |
Jennifer Warren, Slap Shot |
1941-11-19 |
Ivanka Khristova, Bulgaria, shot putter (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1941-12-03 |
Bronislav Krizan, David Sandel's Last Shot |
1942-05-28 |
Árpád Szirmai, Shot Through the Heart |
1943-11-27 |
John Gofton, Slap Shot |
1944-05-25 |
Stephanie Turner, Shot Gun |
1944-09-06 |
Swoosie Kurtz, Omaha Nebraska, actress (Slap Shot, Garp, Sisters) |
1944-12-04 |
John Allen, The Odd Angry Shot |
1945-01-04 |
Brian Evis, The Odd Angry Shot |
1945-03-05 |
Randy Matson, US, shot putter (Olympic-gold-1968) |
1945-04-14 |
Uwe Beyer, German DR, shot-putter (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1945-04-16 |
Stefan Grossman, Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice |
1945-09-29 |
Nadezhda Chizova, USSR, shot putter (Oly-gold/silv/bronze-68/72/76) |
1945-10-22 |
Yvan Ponton, Slap Shot |
1946-01-24 |
Michael Ontkean, Vancouver BC, actor (Rookies, Slap Shot, Twin Peaks) |
1946-11-22 |
Aston Barrett, Jamaican reggae bassist (I Shot the Sheriff) |
1946-12-21 |
Roy Karch, I Think I Just Shot Her |
1947-04-16 |
Galen Head, Slap Shot |
1947-06-10 |
Reg Bechtold, Slap Shot |
1948-01-01 |
Reggie Krezanski, Slap Shot |
1948-10-18 |
Francine Lefrak, Shot Through the Heart |
1948-11-05 |
Ronald L. Docken, Slap Shot |
1949-02-02 |
Jeremiah Newton, I Shot Andy Warhol |
1949-07-13 |
Helena Fibingerova, Czech, shot putter (Olympic-bronze-1976) |
1949-08-23 |
Geoff Capes, shot putter |
1950-08-21 |
Arthur Bremer, American criminal, who shot George C Wallace in May 1972. |
1950-9-09 |
Adrienne Bór, Warning Shot |
1951-02-09 |
Mikal Gilmore, Shot in the Heart |
1951-06-11 |
Maren Seidler, Brooklyn New York, American shot putter (Olympics-11th-1968) |
1951-07-13 |
Mark Bousquet, Slap Shot |
1953-01-22 |
Jean Rosario Tetreault, Slap Shot |
1953-07-05 |
Guido Tenesi, Slap Shot |
1953-07-20 |
Jeff Carlson, Slap Shot |
1953-11-18 |
Kevin Nealon, Bridgeport Conn, actor (SNL, Hot Shot, Coneheads) |
1954-02-04 |
Andrew Buckland, Shot Down |
1954-04-12 |
David Hanson, Slap Shot |
1954-04-24 |
Brent Michael, Jose Canseco: Last Shot |
1954-07-11 |
Viktória Bajza, Shot Through the Heart |
1955-05-29 |
John Hinckley Jr, shot & wounded President Reagan (1981) |
1955-08-26 |
Steve Carlson, Slap Shot |
1956-09-24 |
Ilona Briesenick-Slupianek, German DR, shot-putter (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1957-10-01 |
Jeff Franzen, The Shot That Shook the World |
1957-10-26 |
Hugh Dallas, A Shot at Glory |
1957-12-20 |
John R. Price II, Shot Your Load |
1960-06-27 |
Brian Drillinger, I Shot a Man in Vegas |
1960-08-12 |
Allison Eikeren, Who Shot Patakango? |
1960-10-29 |
Michael Carter, Dallas Tx, shot putter (Olympic-silver-1984) |
1960-12-17 |
Ken Mora, Magnum Farce: A Shot in the Park |
1961-01-18 |
Mark Messier, Slap Shot 3: The Junior League |
1961-05-26 |
Martha Thimmesch, The Day Lincoln Was Shot |
1961-11-10 |
Ramona Pagel, Los Angeles California, shot putter |
1962-01-14 |
Patricia Morrison, Sisters of Mercy: Shot Rev 2.0 |
1962-01-27 |
James F Doehring, Santa Barbara CA, shot putter (Olympics-silver-1992) |
1962-08-05 |
Ramsay Gilderdale, Who Shot Barbara? |
1962-08-12 |
Jeanne Waltz, A Parting Shot |
1962-11-12 |
Renee Rogers, How Do We Know We Aren't Going to Get Shot? |
1962-12-26 |
Gábor Pintér, Shot Through the Heart |
1962-9-25 |
Bruce Kent, Slap Shot |
1963-11-12 |
Kathryn Keats, Kiss Shot |
1964-11-26 |
Lia Williams, Shot Through the Heart |
1965-04-30 |
Daniela Costian, Australian discus/shot putter (Olympics-96) |
1965-07-09 |
Bruno Molino, Create Your Own Shot |
1965-12-22 |
Sean Kerns, A Shot at Glory |
1966-03-20 |
Riikka Pitkonen, Pot Shot |
1966-05-05 |
Josh Weinstein, Who Shot Mr. Burns?: Part 2 |
1966-06-16 |
[Eric] Randy Barnes, Charleston WV, shot putter (Oly-silv/gold-88, 96) |
1967-04-17 |
Gabriella Fon, Shot Through the Heart |
1967-12-29 |
Kevin Toth, Cleveland Ohio, shot putter |
1968-08-16 |
Donovan Leitch Jr, actor/musician (I Shot Andy Warhol) |
1968-10-08 |
Todd Harkins, Slap Shot 3: The Junior League |
1968-10-29 |
Dave Hoffman, Larry Hagman: One More Shot |
1969-02-23 |
Bill Kotsatos, Martini's Shot |
1969-08-28 |
Mary McCartney, Who Shot Rock & Roll: The Film |
1970-03-24 |
Jacob J. Young, The Martini Shot |
1970-08-30 |
Robert Ketterer, Shot |
1970-12-18 |
Michael Stark Barnett, Shot of Faith |
1971-03-16 |
Jason Jennings, Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice |
1971-12-14 |
Lisa-Marie Vizaniari, Australian discus/shot putter (Olympics-96) |
1972-03-31 |
John Godina, Fort Sill Oklahoma, shot putter/discus thrower (Oly-silver-96) |
1972-04-14 |
Bob Dinatale Jr., The Martini Shot |
1972-9-23 |
Geeda Searfoorce, Martini's Shot |
1973-01-25 |
Whit Johnson, Less than 1%/The Lucky One/Sure Shot?/On the Road/Patti Smith/No Foolin' |
1974-04-01 |
Colby Donaldson, The Long Shot |
1974-06-26 |
Ecija Ojdanic, One Shot |
1974-07-27 |
Dan Gordon-Levitt, Moon Shot |
1974-08-21 |
Amy Fisher, Long Island NY, shot Mary Jo Buttafucco |
1975-08-05 |
Daryll Harkless, I Know Who Shot You |
1975-11-04 |
Lorenzen Wright, Three Point Shot |
1975-11-11 |
Cassandra Wilde, Private Black Label 9: Sex Shot |
1976-01-08 |
Brad Snyder, Ontario, shot putter (Olympics-96) |
1976-01-30 |
Bradley Kell, A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila |
1976-02-17 |
Crown Princess, Buck Shot |
1976-04-07 |
Erin Deis, Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice |
1976-11-16 |
Mat Laskowski, Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That! |
1977-10-18 |
Christian Ryan, Shot to Pieces |
1978-04-24 |
Big Ben Kennedy, The Money Shot |
1978-08-02 |
Donny B. Lord, Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story |
1978-12-20 |
Gareth Myles, Shot at Dawn: A Silent Reminder |
1978-9-12 |
Stephanie Steel, Private Black Label 9: Sex Shot |
1979-02-02 |
Irini Terzoglou, Greek shot putter |
1979-03-02 |
Amanda Ireton, Cast member of MTV's A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila |
1979-11-04 |
Katja Love, Private Black Label 9: Sex Shot |
1980-01-15 |
Heidi Liddell, Jose Canseco: Last Shot |
1980-02-29 |
Nicholas J. Michalak, Kill Shot: Lou |
1980-04-24 |
Nicole Thomson, Private Black Label 9: Sex Shot |
1981-06-10 |
Amy LeBrocq, The Shot |
1981-10-12 |
Eric Itzi, Buck Shot |
1981-11-06 |
Lauren Baxter, Cover Shot |
1981-11-09 |
Art Hall, The Money Shot |
1982-9-04 |
Jacob Drake, Batman's Gonna Get Shot in the Face |
1983-02-18 |
S. RaineBo Thunder, The Big Shot-Caller |
1983-08-07 |
Laura Petela, Shot Through the Heart |
1984-06-01 |
John Cureton, Big Shot Live |
1984-12-28 |
Justice Coleman, Shot Into Smithereens |
1985-02-07 |
Gary Carper, Shot Your Load |
1985-05-14 |
Kris King, Screen Shot |
1985-11-30 |
Oscar Lagerström Carlsson, The Seventh Shot |
1986-02-13 |
Christine Bierman, The Long Shot |
1986-02-24 |
Darren Burn, The Shot That Shook the World |
1987-01-05 |
Jessica Ramos, Buck Shot |
1987-06-07 |
Gabe Stowers, Last Shot with Judge Gunn |
1987-9-22 |
Trevor Chong, Slap Shot 3: The Junior League |
1988-9-21 |
Dean Kabeli, The Last Shot |
1991-10-20 |
Miranda Ko, Blood Shot 3D |
1994-05-26 |
Jack McGinn, A Shot at Glory |
Date | Event |
---|---|
1100-08-02 |
William II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44 |
1598-12-16 |
Yi Sun-sin, Korean Naval Commander, shot at the naval Battle of Noryang. (b. 1545) |
1629-06-18 |
Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander (Spanish silver fleet) and folk hero (b. 1577) shot by cannonball at 51 |
1676-08-12 |
King Philip, [Metacomet], leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death |
1718-12-11 |
Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), shot dead invading Norway at Fortress of Fredriksten |
1810-01-28 |
Andrew Hofer, Tyrolian rebel against French & Bavarians, shot dead |
1844-06-27 |
Hyrum Smith, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob in Carthage Ill |
1844-06-27 |
Joseph Smith Jr, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob at 38 |
1848-06-27 |
Denis-Auguste Affre, archbsp of Paris (1840-48), shot to death at 54 |
1861-05-24 |
Elmer Ellsworth, US warrior (Chicago Zouaves), shot to death at 23 |
1861-05-24 |
James T Jackson, US landlord (doodde EE Ellsworth), shot dead) |
1862-01-10 |
Samuel Colt, American inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47 |
1863-06-27 |
Martin E Green, Confederate brig-general, shot dead at 38 |
1865-04-26 |
John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green VA at 27 |
1868-09-28 |
Thomas Carmichael Hindman, attorney/Confederate gen-mjr, shot at 40 |
1871-06-08 |
Satank, Kiowa indian chief, shot to death |
1876-08-02 |
Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's |
1881-07-15 |
Billy the Kid [William H Bonney], shot by sheriff Pat Garrett at 21 |
1882-04-03 |
Jesse James, outlaw, shot dead at 34, in St Joseph Mo by Robert Ford |
1901-09-14 |
Pres William McKinley, dies in Buffalo, after being shot 8 days earlier by anarchist, Leon Czolgosz |
1906-06-25 |
Stanford White, Architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit |
1908-11-07 |
Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American train and bank robber, shot by Bolivian soldiers at 42 |
1910-10-15 |
Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, heavy weight boxing champ, shot & killed |
1911-09-18 |
Russian Premier Peter Stolypin (1906-11), shot and murdered at the Kiev Opera House aged 49 |
1918-04-21 |
"Red Baron", [Manfred von Richtofen], shot down in WW I at 25 |
1918-04-21 |
Manfred von Richthofen [The Red Baron], German pilot dies after his plane his shot down at 25 |
1918-07-17 |
Alexandra Fjodorova, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death at 46 |
1918-07-17 |
Botkin, personal physician of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death |
1918-07-17 |
Charitonov, cook of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death |
1918-07-17 |
Demidova, lady in waiting of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death |
1918-07-17 |
Maria Romanova, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death |
1918-07-17 |
Olga Romanova, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death |
1918-07-17 |
Tatyana Romanova, daughter of RussianTsar Nicholas II, shot to death |
1918-07-17 |
Trupp, lackey of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death |
1918-09-03 |
Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed |
1920-09-05 |
Robert Harron, actor (Intolerance), accidental shot to death at 27 |
1920-12-21 |
Claude Tozer, cricketer (dashing NSW batsman, shot to death |
1928-11-06 |
Arnold Rothstein, US businessman/gambler, shot to death at 46 |
1932-02-22 |
George MacFarlane, Half Shot at Sunrise |
1932-04-07 |
Erv A Kelley, US policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd |
1934-07-22 |
John Dillinger, shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago, at 33 |
1934-10-22 |
Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, gangster, shot dead at 30 by FBI in Ohio |
1934-11-27 |
"Baby Face" Nelson, [Lester Gillis], gangster, shot by FBI at 26 |
1935-09-08 |
Carl Austin Weiss, murderer of Sen Huey Long, shot down |
1938-08-18 |
Marvin Loback, The Big Shot |
1939-11-09 |
Dirk Klop, Dutch intelligence lt, shot by German Abwehr |
1940-10-11 |
Lluís Companys, President of Generalitat of Catalonia (shot) (b. 1882) |
1941-02-26 |
Jan Keizer, Zaanse February striker, shot to death |
1942-06-18 |
Adolf Opalka, Czech resistance fighter, shot down |
1942-11-19 |
Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (shot) (b. 1892) |
1943-02-05 |
Wim Gertenbach, Dutch resistance fighter (Slogan), shot by Nazis |
1943-02-09 |
... Reydons, wife of General Reydons, shot to death by resistance |
1943-02-10 |
Wa'er, shot dead by Defiance |
1943-06-01 |
Leslie Howard, actor (Romeo & Juliet), Nazis shot down his plane at 50 |
1944-01-21 |
Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German major/pilot, shot down |
1944-08-25 |
Krijn van den Helm, resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death |
1944-11-28 |
Bijnen, Dutch opposition leader (LKP), shot to death in Apeldoorn |
1945-03-26 |
Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter, shot to death at 29 |
1945-04-28 |
Benito Mussolini, Fascist dictator of Italy, shot by communist partisans at 61 |
1946-06-10 |
Ananda Mahidol, king of Siam, shot dead at 20 |
1947-06-20 |
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal |
1948-04-14 |
Walter P Reuther, Pres (United Auto Workers), shot at his home |
1949-04-28 |
Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (shot) (b. 1888) |
1949-08-14 |
Husni al-Barazi, premier of Syria, shot to death |
1949-08-14 |
Husni el-Zaim, president/dictator of Syria, shot to death |
1950-03-28 |
Julia Arthur, The Woman the Germans Shot |
1950-07-05 |
Salvatore Giuliano, Sicilian bandit, shot by police |
1950-12-23 |
Vincenzo Tommasini, A Pistol Shot |
1951-07-20 |
Mustafa Shuqri Ashu, tailor/murderer of king Abdullah, shot to death |
1953-12-03 |
Aleksander Bogusinski, The Shot |
1958-10-31 |
Tom Pittman, High School Big Shot |
1959-01-20 |
Carl Switzer, actor (Alfalfa-Our Gang), shot to death at 31 |
1959-04-22 |
Friedrich Franz Stampe, The Shot in the Talker Studio |
1959-10-19 |
Boughera El Quafi, marathoner (Olympic-gold-1928), shot to death at 60 |
1962-02-20 |
Roberta Robinson, Half Shot at Sunrise |
1962-10-27 |
Rudolph Anderson, U-2 pilot, shot down over Cuba |
1963-06-12 |
Medgar Evers, NAACP official, shot in Jackson Miss at 37 |
1963-11-24 |
Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK's assassinator 2 days earlier, shot dead by nightclub owner Jack Ruby live on TV |
1964-12-11 |
Sam Cooke, Clarksdale, Mississippi, US musician ('A Change is Gonna Come') shot to death at 33 |
1966-05-16 |
Randolph Turpin, boxer, shot dead in his home |
1966-08-01 |
Charles Whitman, former marine, kills 16 at U of Texas, shot by cops |
1968-04-06 |
Bobby Hutton, US Black Panther leader, shot to death |
1970-08-07 |
... Haley, US judge, shot dead |
1970-08-07 |
James McClain, US black activist, shot dead |
1970-08-07 |
Jonathan P Jackson, US black activist, shot dead |
1970-08-07 |
William Christmas, US black activist, shot dead |
1971-06-28 |
Joseph Colombo, mobster, shot dead at 48 |
1971-07-10 |
Mohamed Madbouh, Moroccan general/putschist, shot to death |
1971-08-21 |
George Jackson, US prisoner, shot to death at 29 |
1972-04-27 |
Phil King, rock (Blue Oyster Cult), shot in head at 24 while gambling |
1973-08-09 |
Dean Corll, shot, he raped & killed 26 boys |
1975-03-25 |
Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, king of Saudi-Arab (1964-75), shot by nephew at 68 |
1975-12-23 |
Richard S Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead |
1977-07-31 |
Stacy Moskowitz, shot to death by Son of Sam, at 20 |
1978-01-23 |
Terry Kath, rock guitarist (Chicago), accidently shot in head at 32 |
1978-05-27 |
Bryan 'Slim' Hightower, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1978-09-23 |
Lyman Bostock, outfielder (Angels), shot & killed at 27 |
1978-11-27 |
George Moscone, (SF Mayor), shot by Dan White |
1979-01-18 |
Cyril J. Mockridge, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1979-03-27 |
Ronald Adam, actor (Phantom Shot), dies at 82 |
1979-05-29 |
Eddie Imazu, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1979-11-02 |
Jacques Mesrine, French "enemy of the state", shot to death |
1980-12-04 |
Stella Walsh-S-Walasiewicz, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1932), shot at 69 |
1980-12-08 |
John Lennon, shot and killed in NY by Mark David Chapman at 40 |
1981-03-06 |
Klaus Grabowski, child molester, shot by parent |
1982-06-26 |
Saulo Benavente, Alias Big Shot |
1983-03-24 |
Asmund Rostrup, The Echo of a Shot |
1983-12-07 |
Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA |
1984-01-18 |
Malcolm H Kerr, 9th pres of American U of Beirut, shot dead |
1984-03-28 |
Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead |
1984-04-01 |
Marvin Gaye, singer (Sexual Healing), shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in LA at 44 |
1984-07-18 |
James Oliver Huberty, shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds |
1984-11-11 |
Dorothy M. Johnson, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1984-11-27 |
Percy Norris, deputy high commissioner of India, shot dead |
1985-06-17 |
Ole Ishøy, The Echo of a Shot |
1985-08-06 |
Jirí Kostka, The Last Shot |
1985-08-20 |
Harchand Singh Longowai, Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists |
1985-12-16 |
Paul Castellano, Organized-crime chief, shot dead at a NYC restaurant |
1986-07-10 |
Dusan Antonijevic, Winnetou: The Last Shot |
1987-01-22 |
R Budd Dwyer, Penns State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy & perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference |
1987-07-26 |
Jim Bishop, The Day Lincoln Was Shot |
1987-09-11 |
Peter Tosh, reggae singer shot dead in Jamacia at 42 |
1987-09-28 |
Mehdi Hashemi, Iranian aid of Ayatollah Khomeini, shot for treason |
1988-03-31 |
Nicola Benois, A Pistol Shot |
1988-07-27 |
Judith Barsi, child actress, shot dead with mother by her father at 11 |
1988-10-12 |
Ken Murray, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1989-04-22 |
Huey Newton, US, Black Panther leader, shot dead at 47 |
1989-07-18 |
Rebecca Schaeffer, actress (My Sister Sam), is shot by a fan at 21 |
1989-08-23 |
Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst because he's black |
1990-03-29 |
Germaine Montenesdro, 2nd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer, shot dead |
1990-04-02 |
Vanda Godsell, A Shot in the Dark |
1990-08-06 |
Robert Alex, shot to death by robber at 31 |
1992-11-29 |
Robert F. Simon, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1993-03-11 |
Dino Bravo, wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44 |
1993-03-31 |
Brandon Lee, US actor (Crow)/son of Bruce Lee, accidentally shot at 28 |
1993-04-14 |
Sam Ntombani, ANC-secretary in Soweto South-Africa, shot to death |
1993-05-24 |
Jesus Posadas Ocampo, Mexican cardinal/archbishop, shot dead at 66 |
1993-06-13 |
Deke Slayton, Moon Shot |
1993-06-16 |
John B Connally, gov of Texas/shot with JFK in 1963, dies at 76 |
1993-06-27 |
Wolfgang Grams, German RAF-terrorist, shot to death at 40 |
1993-11-26 |
Imad Aqal, Palestinian Izz-Danish al-Qassem-leader, shot to death |
1993-11-28 |
Khaled Moustapha Zir, Palestinian Hamas leader, shot to death at 25 |
1993-12-02 |
Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Colombian drug baron, shot to death at 44 |
1993-12-05 |
Douglas Hopkins, guitarist (Gin Blossoms), dies of gun shot at 32 |
1993-12-23 |
Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom, actress, shot to death at about 92 |
1994-04-18 |
Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32 |
1994-04-25 |
Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Moslem leader, shot dead at 32 |
1994-07-02 |
Andres Escobar, Colombia world cup soccer star, shot for losing to US |
1994-08-29 |
Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian Catholic priest, shot dead |
1994-09-23 |
Ali Kouider Benyahia, [sheik Boualem], Alg Moslem leader, shot at 26 |
1994-09-23 |
Cherif Gousmi, [kalief Abu Abdallah Ahmed], Alger Moslem leader, shot |
1994-11-07 |
Carleton Young, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1994-11-19 |
Dedrick Gobert, US actor (Boyz 'n the Hood), shot to death at 22 |
1995-01-22 |
Mahmoud Sayed Selim, Egyptian moslim leader, shot to death at 29 |
1995-03-13 |
Abdul Ali Mazari, Afghan shite leader, shot to death |
1996-01-07 |
William H. Clothier, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1996-05-17 |
Gerald Tueber, Slap Shot |
1997-03-09 |
The Notorious B.I.G. [Christopher Wallace], American rapper shot dead at 24 |
1997-07-15 |
Gianni Versace, fashion designer, shot to death by Andrew Cunanan at 50 |
1997-09-21 |
Maurice Kaufmann, A Shot in the Dark |
1998-01-27 |
Assia Noris, A Pistol Shot |
1998-02-02 |
Dennis Selinger, Long Shot |
1998-06-17 |
Philip Mitchell, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1998-07-22 |
Alan Shepard, Moon Shot |
2001-06-19 |
Brigitte Kolerus, The Echo of a Shot |
2003-12-22 |
Rose Hill, A Shot in the Dark |
2004-01-02 |
Marvin Weldon, Slap Shot |
2004-02-26 |
Harry Bartell, I Shot an Arrow into the Air |
2004-12-08 |
Dimebag Darrell, heavy metal guitarist in band Pantera is shot & killed while performing onstage in Columbus Ohio by crazed fan Nathan Gale |
2005-04-24 |
Howard Benedict, Moon Shot |
2005-08-14 |
Louise Montana, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
2005-12-07 |
Rigoberto Alpizar, airplane passenger fatally shot by U.S. Air Marshals after allegedly claiming he had placed a bomb aboard (b. 1961) |
2006-01-20 |
Blake Ball, Slap Shot |
2006-03-16 |
Moira Redmond, A Shot in the Dark |
2006-10-06 |
Denis Cameron, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
2007-03-26 |
Martha Thimmesch, The Day Lincoln Was Shot |
2007-09-10 |
Alberto Argibay, Alias Big Shot |
2010-05-31 |
Brian Duffy, The Man Who Shot the 60s |
2010-07-19 |
Lorenzen Wright, Three Point Shot |
2010-08-16 |
Bobby Thomson, Miracle Ball: The Hunt for the Shot Heard Around the World |
2010-10-04 |
Dan Gordon-Levitt, Moon Shot |
2012-09-23 |
Corrie Sanders, South African boxer, shot dead at 46 |
2012-12-20 |
Bronislav Krizan, David Sandel's Last Shot |
2013-02-02 |
Chris Kyle, American sniper, is shot at 38 |
2013-03-04 |
Howard Greene, A Shot in the Dark |
2013-04-10 |
Robert Edwards, The Shot That Shook the World |
2013-11-24 |
Renee Rogers, How Do We Know We Aren't Going to Get Shot? |
2014-12-07 |
Ralph Morse, Moon Shot |
2015-10-10 |
Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky: Long Shot Close Up |
2016-06-17 |
West Yorkshire MP Jo Cox dies after being shot in Birstall |
2018-06-19 |
Rapper Jimmy Wopo, 21, is shot dead in drive-by shooting in his native Pittsburgh |