In Mexico City, exiled Russian revolutionary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky" id="mw0A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Leon Trotsky">Leon Trotsky</a> is fatally wounded with an ice axe by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramón_Mercader" id="mw0Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ramón Mercader">Ramón Mercader</a>. He dies the next day.