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Assassination of Sir Arthur Charles

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Location
  
Aden

Attack type
  
Shooting

Perpetrators
  
NLF

Date
  
1 September 1965

Deaths
  
1

The Assassination of Sir Arthur Charles took place on 1 September 1965 during the Aden Emergency. Charles was the speaker of the Aden State Legislative Assembly. He was shot in Wednesday night outside a tennis club by Hasan al-Zagand died shortly afterwards. Charles had been in Aden since 1959 and was knighted in June 1965.

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Assassination of Sir Arthur Charles Wikipedia