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Rebellious tribal leaders Jafar Khan: Shahanshah of Iran: January 23, 1789: Arg of Karim Khan: Zand dynasty: Sayed Morad Khan: Sayed Morad Khan: Shahanshah of Iran: May 10, 1789: Shiraz: Zand dynasty: Lotf Ali Khan: Gustav III: King of Sweden: March 16, 1792 (d. March 29, 1792) Stockholm Sweden: Jacob Johan Anckarström: Agha Mohammad Khan ...
In Romania, Communist Party leader and President Nicolae Ceaușescu even had the same title, Conducător (Romanian for leader), as earlier dictator Marshal Ion Antonescu. U.S.-backed Indonesian president Suharto was awarded the title of "Father of Development" by the Golkar and Armed Forces -controlled Parliament in 1983.
Group Leader II D of the RSHA (technical matters). Designed gas vans to poison Jews, and persons with disabilities. Einsatzkommando leader in North Africa (1942–43), SS and Gestapo commander in northwest Italy (1943–45). Arrested in Italy in 1945; escaped in 1946, fled to Syria in 1948, to Ecuador in 1949, to Chile in 1958.
Most of the victims are civilians, [19] [20] including over 25,000 women and children [21] [22] and 108 journalists. [23] Thousands more dead bodies are under the rubble of destroyed buildings. [24] [25] [26] By March 2024, 374 healthcare workers in Gaza had been killed. [27] More than 10,000 presumed dead under rubble [28]
Charles Manson - Leader of the Manson Family who served life in prison for first degree murder until his death in 2017. [14] Shukri Mustafa - Egyptian leader of Takfir wal-Hijra who was captured and executed on March 19, 1978, for the kidnapping and murder of an Egyptian ex-government minister. [15] Fred Phelps - Leader of anti-gay Westboro ...
California has been home to some of the most notorious serial killers in history. The " Golden State Killer," Joseph James DeAngelo, murdered 13 people and committed over 50 sexual assaults from ...
Britannica and various authors noted that the policies of Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, contributed to the establishment of a totalitarian system in the USSR, [3] [7] but while some authors, such as Leszek Kolakowski, believed Stalinist totalitarianism to be a continuation of Leninism [7] and directly called Lenin's ...
This is a list of successful assassinations, sorted by location.For failed assassination attempts, see List of people who survived assassination attempts.. For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the deliberate, premeditated murder of a prominent figure, often for religious, political or monetary reasons.