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A surgery with a 300% mortality rate. During an amputation, Dr. Robert Liston accidentally cut his assistant's fingers off and later slashed an observer's coat. The observer, thinking he'd been stabbed, dropped dead of shock, and the patient and assistant died afterwards of infected wounds.
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An Assistant US Attorney investigating sexual predators & drug rings was found stabbed 36 times, hundreds of miles from his home. Some wounds were on his back, his hands shredded, his scrotum & neck sliced & there was an unidentified fingerprint in his car. His death was ruled suicide.
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María Santos Gorrostieta Salazar, the mayor of Tiquicheo Mexico, survived three assassination attempts and despite her wounds refused to resign. In 2011 her term as mayor ended and her police protection was withdrawn. In November 2012 she was abducted, stabbed and brutally beaten to death.
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Betsy Aardsma, a graduate student who was stabbed at the Penn State University library. Because the wound was so small and the fact that she was wearing a red dress, no one noticed that she was stabbed until after she died, and EMTs thought she was suffering a seizure. The case is unsolved.
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In 2010 a homeless man saved a woman from a knife attack in New York. He was stabbed trying to help, yet still chased the assailant before collapsing from his wounds. CCTV cameras captured over 20 people walk past him. Some stared, none helped. He later died on the sidewalk where he fell.
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Beatle George Harrison survived a brutal stabbing when his wife fended off an intruder with a fireplace poker and lamp. Harrison suffered a punctured lung and over forty stab wounds.
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A woman named Hien Tran was laying in intensive care after a car accident and investigators were searching for clues due to apparent stab wounds in her neck. A week after she died, a letter arrived from Honda urging her to get her red Accord fixed, because of faulty airbags that could explode
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Julius Caesar's body was the subject of the earliest known recorded autopsy. Of the 23 stab wounds recorded, only one was potentially fatal on its own; the physician ruled his death due "mostly to blood loss."
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In an old study conducted in the 80s in a hospital in LA, the researchers found out that 75.5% of patients with gunshot wounds to the heart survived, and 88.5% of patients with stab wounds to the heart survived.
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A man suffered a fatal stab wound from a knife-wielding chicken while watching an illegal cockfight in California
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Malchik, a stray dog that made a Moscow train station his home, acting as the resident guard dog. In 2001, a woman fatally wounded Malchik, stabbing him multiple times with a kitchen knife. The woman was arrested and tried. A statue, named "Compassion", was erected in honour of Malchik.
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Although the stabbing death of indie rock icon Elliott Smith is widely believed to be a suicide his autopsy report lists his mode of death as "undetermined." Hesitation wounds were absent, possible defensive wounds were found on his hands, and his name was misspelled on his suicide note.
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Vince Vaughn and Steve Buscemi were involved in a bar brawl becuase Vaughn was talking to the girlfriend of one of the guys at the bar. The brawl left Buscemi with multiple stab wounds to the face and neck after which he had to have plastic surgery. - source
Jim Bowie and his knife became famous following the Sandbar Fight in the Mississippi River, where Bowie sustained as many as 3 bullet & 7 stab wounds and lived to fight another day - source
At age 56, George Harrison of The Beatles was attacked in his home by a man wielding a kitchen knife inflicting more than 40 stab wounds until Olivia Harrison was able to incapacitate the assailant with a fireplace poker and a lamp.
About Jean Baptiste Lully. A conductor who accidentally stabbed his foot with his conducting rod during a performance and later died of gangrene infections in that wound - source
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During Caesar's assassination, who 60+ people were a part of, he was stabbed 23 times but a physician later established that only one wound, the second one to his chest, had been lethal.
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While Edward the I of England (also known as Edward Longshanks) was on crusade he was targeted for assassination by the sultan of Egypt. Although he was stabbed by a poisoned dagger Edward managed to kill his would be assassin and would later recover from his wound.
Elliott Smith died in Los Angeles, California from two stab wounds to the chest. The autopsy evidence was inconclusive as to whether the wounds were self-inflicted.
A teenage boy was found on the streets of Nuremberg who claimed he lived in a dungeon for the majority of his life. Later, he was stabbed and died of his wounds
After George Harrison was attacked and hospitalised with over 40 stab wounds in 1999, he released a statement saying: "[he] wasn't a burglar, and he certainly wasn't auditioning for the Traveling Wilburys."
Akihabara Massacre in 2008. A man drove a truck into a crowd, got out and began stabbing individuals. Seven people were killed and ten more were seriously wounded.
