Văn Trỗi tried to assassinate United States Secretary of DefenseRobert McNamara and future ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. who were visiting South Vietnam in May 1964. Văn Trỗi's last words were "I have committed no sin. It is the Americans who have sinned." (19 October 1964)
There are 3393 births, 3958 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5747 people in 6459 places until today.
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Friday 1st of September 1967 (-) — Wife of camp commandant and human-skin-handywoman Ilse Koch commits suicide by hanging.
Sunday 25th of March 2007 (x) — Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion and Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv Brigitte Mohnhaupt is released from prison after 24 years. Mohnhaupt was the longest ever imprisoned member of the Rote Armee Fraktion.