Over two years after Mehmet Ali Acga shot him four times, Pope John Paul II arrived in the hitman's prison...
Mehmet Ali Agca was a Turkish ultranationalist who had escaped from prison in his home country after murdering a newspaper editor.
Acga was eventually pardoned in Italy in 2000 at the Pope's request and deported to Turkey, where he was jailed for another decade and converted to Roman Catholicism.Scientist Charles Darwin embarked on his landmark voyage on the HMS Beagle on December 27, 1831.But that wasn't his original goal. But his discovery of fossilised bones of extinct animals, and his observations of plants and animals, made him question the then-prevalent belief that species were fixed.The result was Darwin's theory of evolution, and his landmark book On the Origin of Species, first published years later in 1859.Former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was assassinated at a public rally in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007.
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