During the period from the early 1960s to the late 1980s, Africa had more than 70 coups and 13 presidential assassinations (109).
WE'VE never really gotten over Lincoln's assassination, 144 years ago this week.
The Roman general Flamininus prevented his taking Sparta, but on Nabis' assassination (192) Philopoemen incorporated it in the confederation.
Appointed to Corsica after his predecessor's assassination 15 months ago, he had begun to crack down with success on organised crime and separatist terror.
8 did Foxhall win in the year of the benefactor's assassination? 9 was a race inaugurated by a future Governor of St Lucia? 10 uniquely, were there no finishers?
And Mr. Gillon, whose books include "The Kennedy Assassination — 24 Hours After" and who serves as the resident historian of the History channel, had taught John F. Kennedy Jr. at Brown University.
PAGE A29 NEW YORK'S LINCOLN MEMORIAL After Abraham Lincoln's assassination, 144 years ago this week, a mourning New Yorker wandered the city, sketching the shrines and messages he saw in the storefronts.
2.53pm: Sources close to the Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, have asked us to point out that Tom Flanagan, the professor who flippantly called for Assange's assassination (8.38am), does not have a formal role as an adviser to Harper.
Belgrade's pressure is not just political and psychological, Western and Montenegrin officials insist, but also physical, with the skillful assassination, 10 days before the vote, of one of Mr. Djukanovic's closest bodyguards.
Spookily, such anxieties had been anticipated the day before the assassination, 21 November 1963, when the distinguished American historian Richard Hofstadter delivered the Herbert Spencer lecture at Oxford University on "The Paranoid Style in American Politics".
"Are any football grounds named after people even less recently alive than Skopje's Philip II stadium?" tweeted Kat Petersen, who points out that the 33,460-capacity stadium in the Macedonian capital is named after a monarch who lived from 382 BC until his assassination 46 years later in 336 BC.
