The Modern Megacity · event 3 of 13

1940

Trotsky is assassinated. Ramón Mercader kills him with an ice axe at his house in Coyoacán, after an earlier attempt led by the painter Siqueiros.

The The Modern Megacity era

  1. 1929
  2. 1934
  3. 1940
  4. 1952
  5. 1956
  6. 2 October 1968
  7. 1978
  8. 19 September 1985
  9. 1997
  10. 2000
  11. 2016
  12. 19 September 2017
  13. 2024

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