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The first member of Congress to be killed or wounded in office was Henry Wharton Conway who was killed in a duel in 1827. The most recent death occurred in 1983 when Korean Air Lines Flight 007, carrying Larry McDonald, was shot down over the Pacific Ocean. The most recent Congress member to be injured was Angie Craig who was assaulted in 2023.
Senior U.S. officials met with Sikh advocates on Thursday to discuss threats facing Sikhs in the United States, including a foiled murder plot against a prominent activist last year, several ...
Balbir Singh Sodhi (July 6, 1949 – September 15, 2001), [1] a Sikh-American entrepreneur and franchisee in Mesa, Arizona, was murdered in a hate crime in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. This was the first of several cases across the United States that were reported to the police as supposed acts of retaliation for the attacks.
The following is a list of United States senators and representatives who died of natural or accidental causes, or who killed themselves, while serving their terms between 1950 and 1999. For a list of members of Congress who were killed while in office, see List of United States Congress members killed or wounded in office.
A foiled plot to assassinate a prominent Sikh separatist leader in New York, just days after another activist's killing, was meant to precede a string of other politically motivated murders in the ...
Advocates are calling for a hate crimes investigation after a Sikh man in New York was beaten to death in an alleged road rage incident.. Jasmer Singh, 66, was driving his wife home from a doctor ...
An Indian government official directed an unsuccessful plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist, who is also a U.S. citizen, on U.S. soil, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday, in announcing ...
Beant Singh and Satwant Singh (aided by Kehar Singh), Sikh bodyguards, in protest against Operation Blue Star at the Golden Temple, Amritsar. (Sikh militants) [19] Balbir Singh Chaudhary 1985 Hoshiarpur, Punjab: Former MP; Party President Punjab Lok Dal Sikh militants [20] Bhisham Parkash Punjab: Party district President Indian National Congress