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1. Wednesday 21st of August 1940 (-) — Marxist revolutionary and theorist and founder and first leader of the Red Army Leon Trotsky is hacked to death by Ramón Mercader aka Jacques Mornard aka Frank Jacson
   The blow to Trotsky's head was bungled and failed to kill him instantly. Witnesses stated that Trotsky spat on Mercader and began struggling fiercely with him. Hearing the commotion Trotsky's bodyguards burst into the room and nearly killed Mercader but Trotsky stopped them, laboriously stating that the assassin should be made to answer questions. Trotsky was taken to a hospital, operated on and survived for more than a day, dying as a result of loss of blood and shock.