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The Raid on the Norias Division of the King Ranch was an attack August 8, 1915 by a large band of disaffected Mexicans and Tejanos in southern Texas.It was one of the many small battles of the Mexican Revolution that spilled over into United States soil and resulted in an increased effort by the United States Army to defend the international border.
During the Lincoln assassination, there were also attacks planned against current Vice-president Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward, but Johnson's did not go through, and Seward survived the attack. An assassination plot against Jefferson Davis, known as the Dahlgren Affair, may have been initiated during the American Civil ...
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
He said he had been paid $100,000 by the alleged Memphis mobster Frank Liberto to help organize the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. [3] Jowers owned a restaurant, Jim's Grill, very near the Lorraine Motel, where King often stayed while in Memphis and the assassination took place.
Since 1819, 1,343 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 1 February 2025. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place. [1] During the American Civil War, three Confederate deserters and a man convicted of attempted rape were executed by firing squad. [1]
Demonstrator with sign saying "Let his death not be in vain", in front of the White House, after the assassination of Martin Luther King. For some, King's assassination meant the end of the strategy of nonviolence. [32] Others in the movement reaffirmed the need to carry on King's and the movement's work.
575 Sigebert I, King of Austrasia, assassinated by slaves sent by his sister-in-law; 584 Chilperic I, King of Neustria, assassinated by an unknown assailant during a hunting expedition; 585 Gundoald, Merovingian usurper king, killed by a stone thrown by a follower of King Guntram; 592 Emperor Sushun of Japan, by Soga no Umako
Dealey Plaza / ˈ d iː l iː / is a city park in the West End Historic District of downtown Dallas, Texas.It is sometimes called the "birthplace of Dallas". It was also the location of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963.