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| 1942 |
| | | Yitzhak Shamir becomes leader of the terrorist Stern gang in Palestine | |
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| 1942 May 27 |
| | | Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded by Free Czech agents parachuted in from Britain | |
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| 1943 |
| | | Future Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin becomes leader of the underground terrorist group Irgun | |
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| 1944 July 20 |
| | | Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes death from a bomb placed by Claus von Stauffenberg | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Irgun terrorists detonate a bomb in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people | |
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| 1947 |
| | | 33-year old Aung San, prime minister of Burma, and six of his ministers are assassinated during a cabinet meeting | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated at a Delhi prayer meeting by a Hindu extremist, Nathuram Godse | |
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| 1948 |
| | | U Saw, a political rival of Aung San in Burma, is hanged for having plotted his assassination | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Jewish terrorists, opposed to the partition of Palestine, murder the UN peacemaker Folke Bernadotte | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The Muslim Brotherhood carries out acts of terrorism against the Egyptian authorities and British troops | |
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