Zangara actually tried to assassinate 32nd president of the USA Franklin Roosevelt. At the critical moment Lilian Cross, a woman standing near Zangara, hit Zangara's arm with her purse and spoiled his aim. Cermak died of his wounds at Jackson Memorial Hospital on 6 March. (15 February 1933)
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Wednesday 9th of July 1986 (-) — Physicist and research manager Karl Heinz Beckurtz and his driver Eckhard Groppler die in a roadside bomb-attack by die Rote Armee Fraktion, Kommando Mara Cagol.