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In 1972, during the Munich Olympics, the Palestinian terrorist organisation Black September killed 11 members of the Israeli team. The 11 Israeli Olympic Team members who were murdered in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich are: Mark Slavin, 18, wrestler; Eliezer Halfin, 24, wrestler; David Mark Berger, 28, weightlifter; Ze'ev Friedman, 28 ...
The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, carried out by eight members of the Palestinian militant organisation Black September. The militants infiltrated the Olympic Village, killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team, and took nine other Israeli team members hostage. Those hostages ...
Daoud claimed that the attack was carried out by a Palestinian double agent for Mossad, who was killed by the PLO ten years later. On March 1, 1982, PLO official Nabil Wadi Aranki was killed in Madrid. [26] On June 8, 1992 PLO head of intelligence Atef Bseiso was shot and killed in Paris by two gunmen with suppressed weapons. While the PLO and ...
List of footballers killed during World War II; List of ice hockey players who died in wars; List of Major League Baseball players who died in wars; List of National Football League players who died in wars; List of Olympians killed in World War I; List of Olympians killed in World War II; List of Wales rugby union footballers killed in the ...
David Mark Berger (Hebrew: דיוויד מארק ברגר; May 24, 1944 – September 6, 1972) was an American and Israeli Olympic weightlifter, and one of the 11 Israeli Olympians taken hostage and killed by the Palestinian group Black September during the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Nodar Kumaritashvili died at the 2010 Olympics. His cousin is in Beijing 12 years later to carry on his legacy. ... was four curves away from Georgian Olympic history when, on that chilling day in ...
Twenty-five months after a freak accident nearly killed him, Elija Godwin is in Tokyo as an Olympian. ... Godwin clinched his first Olympics appearance days before his 22nd birthday when he ...
In Greek mythology, the Titanomachy (/ ˌ t aɪ t ə ˈ n ɒ m ə k i /; Ancient Greek: Τιτανομαχία, romanized: Titanomakhía, lit. 'Titan-battle', Latin: Titanomachia) was a ten-year [1] series of battles fought in Ancient Thessaly, consisting of most of the Titans (the older generation of gods, based on Mount Othrys) fighting against the Olympians (the younger generations, who ...