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Tuesday 27th of May 1941 (x) — Nazi leader and SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in an assault by Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík. The Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London resolved to kill Heydrich in Operation Anthropoid. Heydrich survived with severe injuries to his left side, with major damage to his diaphragm, spleen, and lung and a fractured rib. Heydrich slipped in a coma on 2 June and died on 4 June 1941.
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