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* unsuccessfully trying to assassinate Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Yakov Sverdlov in 1918
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In some countries, koi have caused so much damage to waterways that vast amounts of money and effort have been spent trying to eradicate them, largely unsuccessfully.
Davis hired Coltrane as a replacement for Sonny Rollins, after unsuccessfully trying to recruit alto saxophonist Julian " Cannonball " Adderley.
After trying unsuccessfully to attempt suicide, Heidi go on a shooting spree and kills all the characters of the movie except Sydney, Sebastian, Arthur, Seymour, Robert and Lucile.
* June 1 – Cary's Rebellion: Hyde's forces return to Albemarle after unsuccessfully trying to negotiate Cary's surrender.
The games follow him as he spends much of his life trying ( usually unsuccessfully ) to seduce attractive women.
Aviation interest groups unsuccessfully attempted to sue the city into reopening the airport, claiming Daley had been trying to close Meigs Field with non-safety-related reasons since 1995.
In World War II, it was subject to a number of attacks by Nazi German invaders unsuccessfully trying to seize Vladikavkaz in 1942.
In France, meanwhile, the decade following the Treaty of Brétigny was one of relative tranquillity, but on 8 April 1364 John II died in captivity in England, after unsuccessfully trying to raise his own ransom at home.
He ends up writing all their material and playing bass guitar, ( after trying unsuccessfully to get them to change their name ) as the band rises in the drug-and booze-fuelled rock and roll of the 1970s, assisted by A & R man Rick Tumber of ARC Records.
After unsuccessfully trying to leave, using a dogsled, Silook has Taft undergo a vision quest in which he sees the truth.
At that time, several of the teams were operating as minor league affiliates of Pacific Coast League teams, which were unsuccessfully trying to grow into a major league.
This halved the kingdom of Charles of Anjou, who was forced to spend the remainder of his life unsuccessfully trying to reassert his control over Sicily.
After trying unsuccessfully to manufacture candy in New York, Hershey returned to Pennsylvania, where he founded the Lancaster Caramel Company, whose use of fresh milk in caramels proved successful.
After unsuccessfully trying to plead his innocence ( by reciting the lyrics of Bob Dylan's " It Ain't Me Babe " and insisting that he did no more than " cross an imaginary line with a bunch of plants "), George skips bail to take care of Barbara, who is suffering from, and eventually succumbs to, cancer.
After unsuccessfully trying two names, the township was named in honor of Senator William Windom of Winona.
The following year they returned to Portugal to take up their previous posts there where they remained until 1749, unsuccessfully trying to negotiate a commercial treaty.
After trying unsuccessfully for five years to restore the estate, John Augustine Washington offered it for sale in 1848.
At the X-Games semi-finals, Bradley and the Gammas repeatedly cheat in various ways unnoticed, eliminating all the teams while trying to eliminate Max's, albeit unsuccessfully.
Sabian, who has been trying rather unsuccessfully to negotiate peace between his sulking wife ( Mary Page Keller ) and cheeky daughter ( Mulrooney ), arrives on the scene.
After unsuccessfully trying to hide it, the show's producers wrote her pregnancy into the show.
He worked as a legal adviser for a while, as an advocate, and as an interim investigating judge, all the while trying repeatedly and unsuccessfully to gain a teaching chair at the University.
Almstead, who had succeeded Fisher as league commissioner in May 1981, announced the league's shutdown after trying unsuccessfully to contact the surviving eight teams ' investors and team owners.
Seth in the form of a crocodile is trying to escape ( though unsuccessfully ) from his nephew.
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Stalin took the matter personally and attempted, unsuccessfully, to assassinate Tito on several occasions.
In 1921, during the inauguration of the Great Kursaal in San Sebastian, members of this group attempted unsuccessfully to assassinate King Alfonso XIII.
Trujillo unsuccessfully tried to assassinate him in a 1944 plot, and then published their correspondence and discredited him.
Adair however convinced the LVF that the latter killing was the work of one of his rivals in the UDA, Jim Gray, who the LVF then unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate.
* January 30, 1835: Richard Lawrence unsuccessfully tried to assassinate President Jackson in the United States Capitol ; this was the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States .< ref >
* 1980 1 April-al-Dawa unsuccessfully attempts to assassinate Tariq Aziz, Foreign Minister at the time.
On three separate occasions, in 1996, 1998, and 2000, the administration unsuccessfully attempted to capture or assassinate Osama Bin Laden, who was eventually killed by U. S. special operations forces in 2011.
A mystery agent sends Captain Boomerang, Double Down, Killer Frost, and Killer Shark to ( unsuccessfully ) assassinate an imprisoned Amanda Waller as she awaits trial.
* On November 1, 1950, Griselio Torresola and Óscar Collazo unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate U. S. President Harry S. Truman, who was staying at the Blair House in Washington, D. C.
Lewis Thornton Powell ( April 22, 1844 – July 7, 1865 ), also known as Lewis Paine or Payne, attempted unsuccessfully to assassinate United States Secretary of State William H. Seward, and was one of four people hanged for the Lincoln assassination conspiracy.
Gennaro Rubino ( November 23, 1859 – March 14, 1918 ; also spelled Rubini ) was an Italian anarchist who unsuccessfully tried to assassinate King Leopold II of Belgium.
Gustave Charles Bouvet () was a French anarchist who unsuccessfully tried to assassinate Alexandre Millerand, the President of France.
Logan is arrested by the Civil Guard but manages to escape with Augie unsuccessfully attempting to assassinate Joanna.
Fergus unsuccessfully attempts to dissuade Max by contacting his estranged parents ( Bert Freed and Shelley Winters ), then tries to assassinate him.
In February, 1861, a University student named Aristeidis Dosios ( son of politician Konstantinos Dosios ) unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate the Queen.
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* Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the ultra-nationalist LDPR, has unsuccessfully run for president five times ( 1991, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2012 ).
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Louis XVI and his court had been stimulated by a proposal from the merchant adventurer William Bolts, who had earlier tried unsuccessfully to interest Louis ’ s brother-in-law, the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II ( brother of Queen Marie Antoinette ), in a similar voyage.
The county is named for Major Joseph Hamilton Daveiss ( a recording error in the State Clerk's office accounts for the error in spelling, which was never corrected ), the United States Attorney who unsuccessfully prosecuted Aaron Burr.
* Troyce Guice, a St. Joseph native, ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for the United States Senate in 1966 and 1996.
On November 15, General Joseph Wheeler unsuccessfully attempted to dislodge Union forces in the heights of South Knoxville, and the following day Longstreet failed to cut off retreating Union forces at Campbell's Station ( now Farragut ).
During her tenure on the Board of Supervisors, she unsuccessfully ran for mayor of San Francisco twice, in 1971 against mayor Joseph Alioto, and in 1975, when she lost the contest for a runoff slot ( against George Moscone ) by one percentage point, to supervisor John Barbagelata.
Following his service as ambassador, Flynn ran unsuccessfully for Massachusetts's 8th congressional district seat that was being vacated by Joseph Patrick Kennedy II in 1998.
On 20 October of the same year, Joseph Norman Lockyer also observed the same yellow line in the solar spectrum and concluded that it was caused by an unknown element, after unsuccessfully testing to see if it were some new type of hydrogen.
Cargo therefore ran unsuccessfully in the primary for the Senate seat retained by Democrat Joseph Montoya.
Among those convicted was Stephen R. Kappes, later the Number Two man at CIA, Robert Seldon Lady, formerly CIA station Chief in Milan, Col. Joseph L. Romano, a U S Air Force officer, and asserted CIA agent Sabrina De Sousa, who unsuccessfully sued the US State Department to grant her diplomatic immunity and shield her from arrest.
In 1964, Joseph Bonanno and his ally, Profaci crime family boss Joseph Magliocco, unsuccessfully plotted to murder three rival members of the Mafia Commission.
At the train station, Brown discovers that he has been followed by gangsters Joseph Kemp ( David Clarke ) and the genteel Vincent Yost ( Peter Brocco ), who unsuccessfully tries to bribe him.
She tries unsuccessfully to seduce Joseph and grabs him, tearing his clothes as he flees in fear.
In 1957, Davis lobbied unsuccessfully to become the GOP candidate in the special election to replace the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wisconsin.
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