01Vincent Gigante fired the shot in the elevator lobby of 115 Central Park West.
02Costello survived, refused to name his shooter, and was effectively forced into retirement anyway.
03The note found in his pocket listed casino earnings — evidence used against him in tax court.
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01Hector Pieterson was 13 years old; he was among the first students shot on June 16, 1976.
02The death toll reached at least 176 on the first day; over 700 were killed in subsequent months.
03The uprising was triggered specifically by a 1974 decree mandating Afrikaans as the medium of instruction for mathematics.
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01Liu Ziye conscripted his own paternal aunts as concubines, publicly parading them through the inner palace.
02He was assassinated at age sixteen in 465 CE, stabbed by a servant acting on minister's orders.
03His brief reign produced a purge of officials who dared complain about his incestuous harem.
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01HMS Campbeltown was disguised as a German torpedo boat and rammed the Saint-Nazaire dock gate at full speed.
02The four-ton delayed fuse detonated at noon on March 28, 1942, killing approximately 40 German officers aboard.
03Of 611 men who launched the raid, 169 were killed and 215 taken prisoner — over 60% casualties.
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01At least 85 people were killed in 48 hours; the true number may exceed 200 — records were destroyed.
02Röhm and Hitler had been on a first-name basis since 1919 — a familiarity almost no one else was granted.
03The German cabinet retroactively legalized the murders three days later, calling them 'emergency state defense.'
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01Caesar's inner wall (contravallation) was 11 miles; his outer wall (circumvallation) was 14 miles — both built in under six weeks.
02The relief army of roughly 250,000 Gauls attacked both walls at once; Caesar personally rode to plug a breach, his red cloak used as a field signal.
03When the relief army failed, Vercingetorix surrendered 80,000 starving survivors — and the 20,000 Mandubii civilians Caesar had refused to feed died in the gap between the walls.
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01Wittig argued in 1980 that heterosexuality was not a sexuality but a political and economic institution that must be destroyed.
02She claimed lesbians were outside the category 'woman' entirely because 'woman' only has meaning as a relation to men.
03The essay was first delivered at the Modern Language Association conference in 1978 and was reportedly met with stunned silence.
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01The siege ran from May 23 to October 23, 2017 — 154 days of urban combat in a city of 200,000.
02Philippine government forces sustained 165 killed; civilian death toll exceeded 800.
03The battle displaced approximately 360,000 residents; large sections of Marawi remain uninhabitable years later.
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01El Cid died in 1099 but his armored corpse, tied to Babieca, led the final charge at Valencia.
02He fought for both Christian and Muslim rulers, switching sides twice without losing his legend.
03His nickname 'El Cid' comes from Arabic 'al-sayyid' — meaning 'the lord' — given by his enemies.