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* 1983 – A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
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Gerald Kaufman, once Harold Wilson's press officer and during the 1980s prominent on the Labour right, described the 1983 Labour manifesto as " the longest suicide note in history ".
However, Spock's grandson Peter did commit suicide on December 25, 1983 at the age of 22 by jumping from the roof of the Boston Children's Museum.
* January 20, 1983: St. Louis County, Missouri Parkway South Middle School The eighth grade shooter brought a blue duffel bag containing two pistols and a murder / suicide note that outlined his intention to kill the next person heard speaking ill of his older brother, Ken, to school.
In July 1983, her lover from 1972 to 1981, Richard Chanfray, committed suicide by inhaling the exhaust gas of his Renault R25 car.
A notable suicide car bombing was the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, when two simultaneous attacks killed 241 U. S. Marines and 58 French military personnel.
On October 23, 1983, a suicide bomber driving a truck filled with 6 tons of TNT crashed through a fence and destroyed the Marine barracks, killing 241 Marines ; seconds later, a second bomber leveled a French barracks, killing 58.
He famously dubbed the Labour Party's left-wing 1983 election manifesto " the longest suicide note in history ".
Perhaps the first Shia suicide bombing, the attack was an " oft-noticed precedent " for the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing1983 bombing of the American Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut.
In the 1983 general election, Thatcher rode a wave of nationalism brought about by the Falklands War and compounded by the Labour leadership's failure to campaign on their manifesto, their most left-wing for many years ( famously described by the right-wing Labour MP Gerald Kaufman as " the longest suicide note in history ").
Presentationally, the abandonment of the nationalising principles of the original Clause IV represented a break with Labour's past and, specifically, a break with its 1983 Manifesto (" The longest suicide note in history ", as it was described by one of the party's own MP's ) in which greater state ownership was proposed.
On Tuesday, July 12, 1983, at the summer house he maintained with Burckhardt in Searsmont Maine, he committed suicide ; he had been ill and increasingly concerned about the loss of his mental powers.
Sheer Madness ( Heller Wahn, 1983 ), one of von Trotta ’ s popular feature films, also uses suicide as an important part of the storyline.
He founded the infamous Official Monster Raving Loony Party in 1983 and led it until his suicide in 1999.
* October 23, 1983: Simultaneous suicide truck-bombings destroyed both the French and the United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U. S. servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians.
Green refereed one more bout before committing suicide on July 1, 1983 at his North Las Vegas home at age 46.
After a few quiet years, Danny Rapp was found dead in a hotel in Arizona on April 5, 1983, of an apparent suicide.
* July 27, 1983, Portugal: during the suicide attack against Turkish embassy in Lisbon, the five perpetrators, a Portuguese policeman ( Manuel Pacheco ) and the wife of Turkish chargé d ' affaires, Cahide Micioglu, were killed ; another Portuguese policeman was seriously wounded.
Omar Khayam ( born Bedford, 1983 ) is a British Muslim and convicted drug dealer who achieved a considerable degree of notoriety following a protest in which he dressed like a suicide bomber.
One was his wanting to respond to the suicide bombing of the U. S. Marine barracks at Beirut airport on October 23, 1983, in which 241 United States Marines, sailors, and soldiers died.
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