7 September – On this day

Prize-winning Bulgarian author and BBC broadcaster Georgi Markov, was stabbed in the back of the leg with an umbrella gun injecting a Ricin pellet while walking across the Waterloo bridge in London. His death occurred several days later on 11 September.

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The case remains open even though English detectives flew to Bulgaria in 2008, and interviewed 40 people, and in 2013 tracked down the infamous agent Picadilly to a remote Austrian town where although he admitted to working for the Bulgarian secret police he denied involvement in Markov’s death. The case remains open.