Other sources claim that an angry mob tried to kill Aeschylus on the spot, but he fled the scene.

* Did a mob of angry Dutch kill and eat their prime minister?

The miners rioted and Bentley and his wife Catherine fled for their lives as the hotel was burnt down by the angry mob.

During this tour, he was frequently accosted, and at a lecture in Pendleton, Indiana, was chased and beaten by an angry mob before being rescued by a local Quaker family, the Hardys.

Later, the local townspeople, having heard of the incident, come looking for him in the form of an angry mob.

He blames Clark Kent for writing several articles unraveling his schemes and pledges vengeance on Metropolis after an angry mob jeers him on the courthouse steps.

* 1961 – American civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.

In most versions, she dies shortly after, either being killed by an angry mob or from natural causes.

Saint Lebuin, an Englishman who between 745 and 770 preached to the Saxons, mainly in the eastern Netherlands, built a church and made many friends among the nobility, some of whom compelled to save him from an angry mob at the annual council at Marklo.

After adopting the Articles of Confederation, the Congress of the Confederation was formed and convened in Philadelphia from March 1781 until June 1783, when a mob of angry soldiers converged upon Independence Hall, demanding payment for their service during the American Revolutionary War.

* May 14 – American civil rights movement: A Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.

** Martin Luther King Jr. leads a civil rights march in Chicago, during which he is struck by a rock thrown from an angry white mob.

* September 7 – In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are surrounded by an angry mob and are nearly wiped out.

* William Howley Archbishop of Canterbury has his coach attacked by an angry mob on his first official visit to Canterbury.

* May 31 – Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.

* June 8 – During a famine in Mexico City, an angry mob torches the Viceroy's palace and ignites the archives: most of the documents and some paintings are saved by royal geographer Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora.

* October 8 – Cola di Rienzo, self-proclaimed " tribune " of Rome, is killed by an angry mob.

Zola barely escapes from an angry mob incited by agents provocateurs employed by the military.

On 5 October 1789, an angry mob of Parisian working women was incited by revolutionaries and marched on the Palace of Versailles, where the royal family lived.

In the first film, Morticia and Gomez discussed how Mother and Father Addams were killed by an angry mob, removing any possibility that Grandmama could be Gomez's and Fester's mother.

In 1146 an angry mob, displeased with Murdac's role in opposing the election of William FitzHerbert to the archbishopric of York, attacked the abbey and burnt down all but the church and some surrounding buildings.

Grinda hustles Nick outside to his car to escape the angry mob.

The angry crowd becomes a riotous mob, rushes into the restaurant and destroys everything, while Smiley sets the restaurant on fire.

They arrive shortly after Drusilla is seriously weakened by an angry mob in Prague, as recounted in the canon comic book The Problem with Vampires.

A rugged individualist with a distrust of authority, Lazarus drifts from world to world, settling down periodically and leaving when the situation becomes too regimented for his taste — often just before an angry mob arrives to capture him.

During the Peasants ' Revolt in 1381, the college was sacked by a mob of townspeople ( and apparently some students ) led by the mayor which, according to the college, carried away its charter to be burned and plate while gutting the rest of the college buildings.

The Salem Witch Trials, in which the unified belief of the townspeople overpowered the logic of the law, has also been cited as an example of mob rule.

Outside the bar, a mob of mutated, monstrous-looking townspeople descend upon him with shotguns and torches.

In 1714 and 1715, the townspeople, as part of a " Church-and-King " mob, attacked Dissenters ( Protestants who did not adhere to the Church of England or follow its practices ) in the Sacheverell riots during the London trial of Henry Sacheverell, and in 1751 and 1759 Quakers and Methodists were assaulted.

In 1527 the Franciscan Monastery was forcibly shut down by a mob of townspeople who had received permission to close the monastery.

After Bart tells the mob he has made a mistake, the townspeople forgive Bart and he places the head back on the statue.

At the front of their mansion, an angry mob of townspeople attack the Munster Simpsons.

The angry Springfield townspeople, furious at the new laws, surround the intellectuals in an angry mob and bring an end to Mensa's rule, and would have seriously injured Lisa if not for the intervention of Dr. Stephen Hawking.

The mob of townspeople attack and destroy Jack and Max's limousine, much to the chagrin of the company limo driver Sal ( Don Novello ).

When in June 1756 Minorca fell after a failed attempt by Admiral Byng to relieve it, Pitt's allegations fuelled the public anger against Newcastle-leading him to be attacked by a mob in Greenwich.

This massacre was allegedly planned by the Capone mob in retaliation for an unsuccessful attempt by Frank Gusenberg and his brother Peter to murder Jack McGurn earlier in the year and for the North Side Gang's complicity in the murders of Pasqualino " Patsy " Lolordo and Antonio " The Scourge " Lombardo – both had been presidents of the Unione Siciliane, the local Mafia, and close associates of Capone.

The first mob of bullocks to attempt to use the stock route set out in January 1911 ; however the party of three drovers, George Shoesmith, James Thompson and an Aboriginal stockman who was known as ' Chinaman ', were killed by Aborigines at Well 37.

Gotti's attempt at reconciliation failed, leaving Gravano disillusioned with the mob and doubtful on his chances of winning the newest case without Shargel, his former attorney.

When the detectives and their prisoner reached St. Louis, Missouri and changed trains, they were guarded by 20 local policemen to prevent a mob rescue attempt.

Eleven years before Germany's first attempt at democracy really took its last breath, when the Nazis came to power in 1933, in this poem Tucholsky already pointed a finger at those responsible – the poem describes the " mob " living off the republic, sabotaging it and scrawling swastikas on its doors.

For the Emperor, the sight of Bernadotte riding at the head of the disorderly mob and making no apparent attempt to rally his men, was the last straw.

The French 18th century historian Louis-Pierre Anquetil, in his Esprit de la Ligue of 1767, was among the first to begin impartial historical investigation, emphasizing the lack of premeditation ( before the attempt on Coligny ) in the massacre and that Catholic mob violence had a history of uncontrollable escalation.

He had been powerfully moved by the image of a young girl braving a mob in an attempt to desegregate schools in Charlotte, N. C., and Partisan Review editor Philip Rahv had suggested he report on what was happening in the American south.

I must tell you ... that what we have got is an attempt to substitute the rule of the mob for the rule of law, and it must not succeed.

In the wake of the Bay of Pigs, Boyd and Bondurant encourage the mob to authorize an assassination attempt on Castro.

Tony corrected Hesh by saying that Junior planned to whack Little Pussy Malanga ; that if Junior was to attempt an attack on Big Pussy that would result in an automatic mob war since " Big Pussy " was highly respected by everyone, even outside the DiMeo crime family and was also both made and a " good earner ".

" Paul Robeson made more than one attempt to get out of the car and confront the mob but was restrained by his friends.

Coll gained notoriety for the accidental killing of a young child during a mob kidnap attempt.

Their attempt is detected, but it is Oliver who is chased through the streets by a mob and arrested.

The Race Course is the setting of a scene early on in the Ian Fleming James Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever where the mob he is trying to infiltrate attempt to use a fixed race to pay him for a job.

Both Jose and Kitty were then shot in the kneecap in an attempt to make the crime appear mob related.

Recovering from an earlier attempt on his life in June, he was lynched by an organized mob after visiting his brother Cornelis in prison.

A last-ditch attempt to extend his term, break up opposition by mob attacks and dissolve political bodies failed, as did pleas to the US government to support him.

They tried to escape, but the mob allegedly prevented their attempt to escape.

The crowd stormed the lower doors of the courthouse, and the Police inside discharged their weapons down an elevator shaft in an attempt to frighten them, but this further incited the mob.

Meanwhile, Britain's attempt to reinforce the rebels in the Vendée by landing troops at Quiberon failed, and a conspiracy to overthrow the republican government from within ended when Napoleon Bonaparte's garrison used cannon to fire grapeshot into the attacking mob ( which led to the establishment of the Directory ).

One immediate reaction of the communist government of Poland was to attempt to blame the pogrom on Polish nationalists, even to the extent of alleging that uniformed members of anticommunist resistance formations backing the Polish government-in-exile were egging the mob on.

It had been believed that this was due to being pulled down by an angry mob, although recent research suggests that it was deliberately removed by the Paving Commissioners in an attempt to rid the area of.