assassination of Olof Palme

When

28 Feb 1986

Kind

Assassination

Deaths

1

Coordinates

59.34° N, 18.06° E

Description

February 1986 murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme

1986 murder of Prime Minister of Sweden

On 28 February 1986, at 23:21 CET, Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbeth Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen. Lisbeth Palme was slightly wounded by a second shot. The couple did not have bodyguards with them.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is shot to death on his way home from the cinema in Stockholm, Sweden”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “assassinat du premier ministre suédois Olof Palme à Stockholm”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в Стокгольме по дороге домой из кинотеатра был убит премьер-министр Швеции Улоф Пальме”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “瑞典首相奧洛夫·帕爾梅遇刺身亡。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page