Palme Is Assassinated
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Diplomacy, International Relations, Foreign Affairs, Crime
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Presidents, Prime Ministers, Murder, Homicide, Execution, Assassination
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Scandinavian History
- Geographical Location: Scandinavia, Stockholm
- Date: February 28, 1986
Article abstract: Olof Palme is assassinated, depriving the world of a great statesman dedicated to international peace and the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.
Summary of Event
On the evening of February 28, 1986, Prime Minister Olof Palme and his wife, Lisbeth Beck-Friis Palme, left a movie theater on Tunnelgaten (Tunnel Street) in Stockholm, and began walking home to their apartment in the Old Town. About fifteen minutes later, as they turned onto Sveavagen, a major city thoroughfare, from a few yards behind, a man fired two shots at Palme,...
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