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Star Trek (1966–1969) – In the episode "Journey to Babel", the Tellarite ambassador is assassinated and an attempt is made on the life of Captain James T. Kirk. In the episode "The Savage Curtain", U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is murdered, but in battle on an alien world.
Hershel Layton and Jean Descole’s original father, Targent’s leader, and the main antagonist of Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy: Trellis Dump: England and one half of the planet Earth, later the entire Earth: Eden Corporation: George and the Ship of Time: President and CEO of Eden Corporation and eventual ruler of the planet Earth.
Bandit leader who confessed under torture to killing 544 people, including the murder of 24 women and the use of their unborn children in black magic. Broken on the wheel and quartered alive. [16] Martin Roháč: Kingdom of Bohemia: 1568–1571: 59: Czech who formed a gang with fellow soldiers to rob, kidnap, and murder people.
Time frame Image Occupation 1 Muhammad: c. 570–632 Spiritual & Political leader 2 Isaac Newton: 1643–1727 Scientist 3 Jesus: 4 BC–33 AD Spiritual leader 4 Gautama Buddha: 563–483 BC Spiritual leader 5 Confucius: 551–479 BC Philosopher 6 Paul the Apostle: 5–67 AD Christian apostle 7 Cai Lun: 50–121 AD Inventor of paper 8 Johannes ...
The Spanish Flu, the second deadliest pandemic in history after the bubonic plague, along with the aftermath of World War I and ensuing political and social chaos, made 1918 a tough time to be alive.
Jim Jones, cult leader responsible for the mass murder–suicide of 918 of his followers in 1978, using cyanide-laced Flavor-Aid at Jonestown, Guyana; Michael Swango, American physician and surgeon who fatally poisoned at least thirty of his patients and colleagues; Graham Frederick Young (d. 1990), British serial killer
The deadliest tornado in modern U.S. history struck Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011. It was the deadliest tornado since SPC records began in 1950. Nearly 1,000 were injured. The EF5 tornado had ...
The book was first published in hardcover by W. W. Norton & Company in November 2011. [1] The paperback was published by W. W. Norton in May 2013 under the new title Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History. The British edition (Canongate Books, 20 October 2011) is entitled Atrocitology: Humanity's 100 Deadliest Achievements. It ...