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Attacks on parachutists
Attacks on parachutists: wartime attacks on pilots, aircrew, and passengers descending by parachute from disabled aircraft. Such parachutists are hors de combat; Article 42 of Additional Protocol I (1977) and customary IHL (Rule 48) prohibit attacking them during descent, exempt airborne troops, and require a surrender opportunity on landing.
Attacks on religious sites during the Gaza war
Documented attacks on mosques, churches and cemeteries in Gaza since 7 October 2023, including UNESCO counts of damaged religious sites and UN war-crimes findings.
Attacks on schools during the Gaza war
Attacks on schools during the Gaza war are military actions that have damaged or destroyed school buildings in the Gaza Strip since October 2023. Nearly all school buildings sustained damage.
Attacks on the United States
Attacks on the United States: hostile actions against US territory and forces, from the War of 1812 and Pearl Harbor (2,403 dead, 1941) to the September 11 al-Qaeda attacks (about 3,000 dead) and recent Iranian missile strikes on US forces.
Attacks on the United States (1900–1945)
Attacks on the United States (1900–1945): foreign and domestic violent attacks on US territory, including the 1916 Black Tom sabotage, 1918 Attack on Orleans, 1941 Pearl Harbor raid, and 1942 Nazi saboteur landings.
Attacks on the United States (2000–present)
Attacks on the United States, 2000-present: September 11 attacks, jihadist and domestic terrorism, extremist mass killings, and the datasets and definitions used to count them.
Attacotti
Attacotti (also Atecotti, Atticoti): a people of the British Isles named by Ammianus Marcellinus among raiders of Roman Britain in the 360s, accused of cannibalism by Jerome, and recorded as Roman army units in the Notitia Dignitatum; origin debated, possibly Irish federates.
Attah dynasty
The Attah dynasty is the royal lineage of the Igala Kingdom of central Nigeria, whose rulers, the Attah, have held court at Idah on the River Niger for centuries.
Attahiru I
Attahiru I, also known as Muhammadu Attahiru I, was the twelfth Sultan of Sokoto who refused British rule and died leading the 1903 hijra eastward.
Attahushu
Attahushu, also written Atta-hušu, was an Elamite ruler of Susa during the Sukkalmah period who claimed Shilhaha as ancestor and built or restored temples including one to Nanna.
Attainder
Attainder, or attaint, was the English common law consequence of a death sentence for treason or felony: civil death, forfeiture, corruption of blood, and loss of inheritance rights. It also names the related bill of attainder, banned by the US Constitution.
Attakullakulla
Attakullakulla, called The Little Carpenter by the English, was an Overhill Cherokee diplomat who visited King George II in 1730 and concluded the peace ending the Cherokee–British war in 1761.
Attari–Wagah border ceremony
The Attari–Wagah border ceremony, or Beating Retreat, is a daily sunset ceremony where the BSF and Pakistan Rangers close the border gates and lower flags.
Attarissiya
Attarissiya, also written Attariššiya, was a leader called the "man of Ahhiyawa" in Hittite texts of the late 15th and early 14th century BC, known for attacking the Hittite vassal Madduwatta and raiding Cyprus.
Attempt
Attempt (criminal attempt, inchoate offense) punishes intent plus a substantial step toward a crime never completed. Common law uses dangerous proximity; the Model Penal Code uses substantial step; federal law has no general attempt statute.
Attempt at a History of Carniola
Attempt at a History of Carniola (Slovene: Poskus zgodovine Kranjske) is a two-volume history by Anton Tomaž Linhart, published in Ljubljana in 1788 and 1791.
Attempted acquisition of Albertsons by Kroger
The attempted acquisition of Albertsons by Kroger, also known as the Kroger-Albertsons merger, was a $24.6 billion deal announced in October 2022 and blocked by federal and state courts in December 2024.
Attempted assassination of Alexander II by Karakozov
Dmitry Karakozov fired a pistol at Tsar Alexander II at the Summer Garden gate in Saint Petersburg on 4 April 1866, missed, and was hanged.
Attempted assassination of Andrew Jackson
Richard Lawrence's failed January 30, 1835 attempt to shoot President Andrew Jackson at the Capitol; both derringer pistols misfired, Jackson beat him with a cane, and Lawrence was found insane.
Attempted assassination of Andy Warhol
Attempted assassination of Andy Warhol: on June 3, 1968 Valerie Solanas, author of the SCUM Manifesto, shot Warhol at his Factory studio at 33 Union Square West, also wounding Mario Amaya; Warhol survived after five hours of surgery.
Attempted assassination of Bob Marley
Attempted assassination of Bob Marley: December 3, 1976 shooting at 56 Hope Road, Kingston, by gunmen two days before the Smile Jamaica concert; Marley, Rita Marley, and Don Taylor wounded, no deaths, CIA theories unverified.
Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Florida
Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, allegedly hid with a scoped SKS-style rifle in the tree line of Trump International Golf Club, West Palm Beach, on September 15, 2024; a Secret Service agent spotted the rifle, fired, and Routh fled and was arrested without firing a shot.
Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania
Attempted assassination of Donald Trump: Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, fired eight AR-15 rounds at Trump from an AGR building roof at the July 13, 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania rally, grazing his ear, killing Corey Comperatore; Secret Service failures and discipline followed.
Attempted assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Giuseppe Zangara's February 15, 1933 attempt to kill President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami's Bayfront Park; FDR was unhurt, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak died, and Zangara was executed March 20, 1933.
Attempted assassination of Jair Bolsonaro
Stabbing attack on Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, 6 September 2018, in Juiz de Fora, by Adélio Bispo de Oliveira; he acted alone per Federal Police inquiries, was acquitted as legally insane, and Bolsonaro won the 2018 election.
Attempted assassination of Lee Jae Myung
The attempted assassination of Lee Jae Myung (이재명 피격 사건): 2 January 2024 stabbing in the neck of the DPK chairman in Busan by a man in his 60s; 15-year sentence, later terrorism designation, Lee elected president in 2025.
Attempted assassination of Lenin
The attempted assassination of Lenin (Покушение на Ленина) was the shooting of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin by Fanny Kaplan after a rally at a Moscow factory on 30 August 1918.
Attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II
The attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II took place on 13 May 1981, when Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Ağca shot and seriously wounded him in St Peter's Square.
Attempted assassination of Robert Fico
Attempted assassination of Robert Fico: Slovak PM shot five times at close range in Handlova on 15 May 2024 by Juraj Cintula, 71; survived, charged assailant, terrorist act per SIS.
Attempted assassination of Rodolfo Graziani
The attempted assassination of Rodolfo Graziani was a grenade attack on 19 February 1937 against the Italian Viceroy of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, which he survived; the reprisals that followed became the Yekatit 12 massacre.