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Bandaranaike and is
Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.
* 2001 – Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, all died in this attack.
Bandaranaike International Airport, the country ’ s only international airport, is located in Katunayaka, 35 km ( 22 mi ) north of Colombo.
* 1959 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
** Ceylon becomes the republic of Sri Lanka under prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, when its new constitution is ratified.
* May 3 – A bomb believed to have been planted by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam detonates aboard Air Lanka Flight 512, the Lockheed L-1011-385 TriStar City of Colombo, while it is on the ground at Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake, Sri Lanka, with 148 people on board.
Anura Bandaranaike, a minister of the ruling party said Norway's role is highly questionable.
It is on the Katunayake-Colombo road and a few miles from the Bandaranaike International Airport.
It is the site of Bandaranaike International Airport, the primary international air gateway to Sri Lanka.
Katunayake is the site of the primary airport in the country, Bandaranaike International Airport.
Bandaranaike International Airport is the most common direct stop out of the Maldives as it is served by SriLankan Airlines, China Eastern Airlines and Emirates who operate a combined total of up to 8 flights daily between Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

Bandaranaike and assassinated
Bandaranaike was assassinated by an extremist Buddhist monk in 1959.

Bandaranaike and .
* 1915 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician and the world's first female head of government ( d. 2000 )
* 1971 – In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
Gandhi was the second female head of government in the world after Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and she remains as the world's second longest serving female Prime Minister as of 2012.
* 1899 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Ceylonese Prime Minister ( d. 1959 )
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was elected prime minister in 1956.
The Federal Party ( FP ) launched a movement of non-violent resistance ( satyagraha ) against the bill, which prompted Bandaranaike to reach an agreement ( Bandaranaike-Chelvanayakam Pact ) with S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, leader of the FP, to resolve the looming ethnic conflict.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the widow of late S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, took office as prime minister in 1960, and withstood an attempted coup d ' état in 1962.

is and assassinated
As you approach the church on the Via D. Baullari you are passing within yards of the remains of the Roman Theatre of Pompey, near which is believed to have been the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated.
* 1918 – Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
* 1950 – Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.
* 1989 – Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
* 1983 – Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport ( now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport ).
* 1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband ; her daughter and 10 others are also killed.
* 1978 – President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
* 1902 – Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg.
* 2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
* 1993 – Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately 4 weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province.
* 1865 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
Stilicho is alleged by some to have wanted control of both Emperors, and is supposed to have had Rufinus assassinated by Gothic mercenaries in 395 ; though definite proof of Stilicho's involvement in the assassination is lacking, the intense competition and political jealousies engendered by the two figures compose the main thread of the first part of Arcadius ' reign.
* 217 – Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated ( and succeeded ) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
* 1868 – Thomas D ' Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.
* 43 BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated.
* 1922 – President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.
* 1082 – Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
* 969 – Byzatine Emperor Nikephoros II is assassinated by his wife Theofano and her lover, the later Emperor John I Tzimiskes.
* 1997 – Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
* 2007 – Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a shooting incident.
* 1905 – Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.
* 1988 – Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated.
* 1973 – The Spanish Prime Minister, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid.

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