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Mehmet Ali Ağca
1981: Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City
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2005: Freedom Square, Tbilisi, Georgia
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1999: the victim's home, Henley-on-Thames
John Hinckley, Jr.
1981: outside the Hilton Hotel, Washington DC
Dmitry Karakozov
1866: Summer Garden, St.Petersburg
Roderick McLean
1882: Windsor
John Flammang Schrank
1912: Hotel Gilpatrick, Milwaukee, WI
Lewis Powell
1865: the victim's home, Washington, DC
Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola
1950: Blair House, Washington DC
Maxime Brunerie
2002: Champs-Élysées, Paris
Violet Gibson
1926: Rome, Italy
Nguyen Van Troi
1963: airport road into Saigon
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1944: Wolfsschanze, Prussia
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1892: the victim's office, Pittsburgh, PA
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1605: underneath Parliament, London
Valerie Solanas
1968: The Factory, Manhattan
Fanni Kaplan
1918: Hammer and Sickle Factory, Moscow
Michael Riccardi
1991: Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
Marcus Sarjeant
1981: The Mall, London
James Hadfield
1800: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
Lynnette 'Squeaky' Fromme
1975: Capitol Park, Sacramento
Richard Lawrence
1835: Capitol Building, Washington DC
Joseph Paul Franklin
1978: county courthouse, Lawrenceville, GA
Arthur Bremer
1972: Laurel Shopping Center, Laurel, MD
Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry
1962: Petit-Clamart, France
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