Bob Marley assassination attempt Bob Marley assassination attempt Michael Manley, son of former Prime Minister Norman Manley, was elected Prime Minister of Jamaica in 1972. To address growing inequality in Jamaican society, Manley embarked on several democratic socialist reforms of the state, including land ownership reform, free education from primary to university, and nationalization of certain industries. Such policies had massive popularity among many people in Jamaica, but there were others who either saw the reforms as contrary to their businesses or as a high precursor to a Cuban-style communist government. Beginning in 1974, he was also opposed by the more conservative Edward Seaga
Yıldız assassination attempt Yıldız assassination attempt A failed assassination attempted on Sultan Abdul Hamid II by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation at Yıldız Mosque took place on 21 July 1905 in the Ottoman capital Constantinople. "The Times" described the incident as "one of the greatest and most sensational political conspiracies of modern times." The events of the Hamidian massacres and Sultan Abdul Hamid II's anti-Armenian policies were the motivations for the assassination attempt. Armenian resistance within the Ottoman Empire was planned by Armenian national liberation movement. The First Sassoun resistance of 1894, the First Zeitun Resistance in 1895, the Defense of Van in June