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1197.
Date: October 27, 1992
Target: Vice President Al Gore
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
Details: On the day of Gore's visit to the Rocky Mountain High School, a maintenance man found a smoke bomb under the bleachers and alerted the Secret Service. The event was canceled.

1198.
Date: February 7, 1993
Target: Mormon Leader Howard Hunter
Location: Provo, Utah
Details: A man rushed on-stage during Hunter's speech and held a fake bomb to Hunter's head. Several students overpowered him.

1199.
Date: July 6, 1993
Target: Queen Elizabeth II
Location: London, England
Details: Fourteen antinuclear protesters scaled ladders over the walls of Buckingham Palace and were arrested by police on the grounds.

1200.
Date: September 19, 1993
Target: TV Celebrity Kathie Lee Gifford
Location: Lynchburg, Virginia
Details: A man was arrested after raping his aunt. He told her he wanted to kidnap Gifford "for money," and left with the aunt a scrapbook with pictures of Gifford.

1201.
Date: October 6, 1993
Target: Senator Edward Kennedy
Location: Washington, D.C.
Details: Sixty-nine anti-abortion protesters were arrested when they blocked access to Kennedy's office.

1202.
Date: December 2, 1993
Target: President Richard Weisaecker
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Details: A man punched Weisaecker in the face as he was leaving a theater. Bodyguards immediately seized and arrested the man. Weisaecker had a bruised nose and cut lip. The man was a bodybuilder with mental problems.

1203.
Date: January 6, 1994
Target: Figure Skater Nancy Kerrigan
Location: Detroit, Michigan
Details: Kerrigan finished her practice and was walking off the ice when a man struck her right knee with a club and fled. The man and others involved were eventually arrested.

1204.
Date: January 7, 1994
Target: Governor Jim Folsom
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Details: A man stripped, grabbed his genitals, and yelled at Folsom, following Folsom's speech at a school. An officer arrested the man.

1205.
Date: January 11, 1994
Target: President Bill Clinton
Location: Czech Republic
Details: A loud bang went off near Clinton, startling his Secret Service agents. His armored limousine was backed onto the sidewalk near the door and Clinton quickly got inside as an agent shielded him with a bullet-resistant raincoat.

1206.
Date: January 14, 1994
Target: Princess Diana
Location: London, England
Details: Fans mobbed Diana while she was attending a ballet without her bodyguards. She fought her way through the crowd to her car. Police publicly stated that by not using bodyguards she was setting herself up for an assault or kidnapping.

1207.
Date: January 24, 1994
Target: Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Details: Rabin was delivering a speech when he was booed and cursed by protesters. One threw a coat at Rabin and was arrested.

1208.
Date: January 26, 1994
Target: Prince Charles
Location: Sydney, Australia
Details: Charles was about to deliver a speech when a man rushed the stage, firing a cap pistol twice. He dove through a barrier and onto the stage, as bodyguards tackled him.

1209.
Date: February 5, 1994
Target: Queen Elizabeth II
Location: London, England
Details: Jim Miller parachuted onto the roof of Buckingham Palace while naked. He taunted police and was chased down and arrested.

1210.
Date: February 6, 1994
Target: Prince Charles
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Details: A man rushed in and tried to spray Charles with air freshener as he was talking to well-wishers. Bodyguards wrestled the man away.

1211.
Date: February 26, 1994
Target: President Bill Clinton
Location: Washington, D.C.
Details: A rugby player, wearing only a cap and running shoes, ran toward Clinton's motorcade as it drove by a park.

1212.
Date: May 26, 1994
Target: Governor Bruce King
Location: Sante Fe, New Mexico
Details: Four environmental activists spent the night in King's office to protest Intel Corporation's plan to dig three wells.

1213.
Date: June 8, 1994
Target: President Bill Clinton
Location: Crown King, Arizona
Details: A man wired himself to a box of TNT and held deputies at bay for several hours to protest Clinton's trip to Normandy. He later set off the bomb, killing himself.

1214.
Date: June 21, 1994
Target: President Bill Clinton
Location: Washington, D.C.
Details: A boy staked out the White House to get Clinton's autograph. Secret Service agents stopped him when he chased Clinton's motorcade on foot.

1215.
Date: July 1, 1994
Target: PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat
Location: Gaza City, Gaza Strip
Details: Amid death threats and reports of assassination attempts, Arafat visited the Gaza Strip. Police seized the pistol-grip lens of a cameraman, and he was beaten. Thousands of people surged over a fence and police fired shots in the air, killing one and wounding ten.

1216.
Date: August 6, 1994
Target: Actor/Singer Michael Damian
Location: Boise, Idaho
Details: Damian was singing at an outdoor concert when an audience member rushed on stage, tackled and began choking him. The concert was stopped and the man was arrested.

1217.
Date: September 1, 1994
Target: Governor Christine Todd Whitman
Location: Camden, New Jersey
Details: A man took a mental health counselor hostage with a fake bomb and demanded to see Whitman. He surrendered after two hours.

1218.
Date: October 2, 1994
Target: Governor Roy Romer
Location: Denver, Colorado
Details: Romer shunned the use of bodyguards, but a strange call about his attendance at a function prompted his security detail to send a trooper to meet him at the event. When they left, the trooper spotted a car with two men following them. The trooper attempted to evade the car by driving over 100 mph with Romer hiding in the back seat. The car chased them for twenty miles before the trooper evaded them.

1219.
Date: October 17, 1994
Target: President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Location: Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Details: Bodyguards were unable to part the mob of people that surrounded Aristide's armored Chevrolet Caprice as it left the palace. They backed it onto the palace grounds and later left by a back way.

1220.
Date: October 24, 1994
Target: Author Stephen King
Location: Santa Cruz, California
Details: A man was arrested when he came to King's book signing with a sign stating, "King is a murderer. It's true or he'd sue." The man accuses King of killing John Lennon. His van was covered with these scrawled accusations.

1221.
Date: October 31, 1994
Target: Emperor Akihito
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Details: A police helicopter chased a man flying an engine-powered paraglider over the Imperial Palace. He landed after a two-hour flight, but was not arrested.

1222.
Date: November 3, 1994
Target: PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat
Location: Gaza City, Gaza Strip
Details: Arafat went to the funeral of Palestinian Leader Hani Abed, who was assassinated on the day before. Abed was killed when he opened his trunk and a bomb exploded. A ring of bodyguards escorted Arafat. The crowd shouted threats, ripped off his headdress, and shoved him out the back door into the rain.

1223.
Date: December 25, 1994
Target: President Bill Clinton
Location: Washington, D.C.
Details: A man was charged with unlawful entry and making threats after he was found clinging to a fence outside the White House. He was not armed and he told authorities he just wanted to see Clinton.

1224.
Date: December 1994
Target: President Bill Clinton
Location: Washington, D.C.
Details: A man parked his car next to the White House fence and announced that he had a bomb in the vehicle. He then ran from his vehicle, but was quickly apprehended by Park Police and Secret Service officers. No bomb was found.

1225.
Date: December 1994
Target: President Bill Clinton
Location: Washington, D.C.
Details: A man was arrested on the Ellipse, an open park between the south grounds of the White House and the Washington Monument. He allegedly was carrying a gun.

1226.
Date: December 1994
Target: President Bill Clinton
Location: Washington, D.C.
Details: A man was arrested for unlawful entry to the White House grounds. He entered the grounds when the southwest gate was opened briefly to let a vehicle leave.

1227.
Date: December 17, 1994
Target: President Bill Clinton
Location: Washington, D.C.
Details: Between four and six shots from a 9mm weapon were fired at the south side of the White House at 2:05 a.m. One went through a dining room window, while others hit near the president's bedroom window on the second floor. Clinton was asleep and there were no injuries. The case remains unsolved.

1228.
Date: December 20, 1994
Target: President Bill Clinton
Location: Washington, D.C.
Details: A homeless man charged across Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House, chasing a U.S. Park Policeman with a nine-inch knife. Police shot him twice when he refused to drop it. He died the following day.

1229.
Date: January 14, 1995
Target: Faction Leader Francois Massaquoi
Location: Monrovia, Liberia
Details: Massaquoi narrowly escaped unharmed when protesters ransacked his home. His three bodyguards fired into the air. Another bodyguard died when the grenade he was holding exploded.

1230.
Date: February 18, 1995
Target: Mayor Lin Po-jung
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Details: Po-jung was meeting to discuss compensation with relatives of 64 people killed in a nightclub fire. The meeting turned ugly and they overturned tables and hit Po-jung.

1231.
Date: March 15, 1995
Target: House Speaker Newt Gingrich
Location: Marietta, Georgia
Details: Three-hundred union protesters stormed Gingrich's district office, wrote on the walls, and scuffled with staff members. Two men were arrested for fighting with police.

1232.
Date: March 17, 1995
Target: Fisheries Minister Michael Jack
Location: Plymouth, England
Details: A mob of fisherman greeted Jack with angry shouts, pelted him with four flour bombs, and held him inside a meeting room for over an hour.

1233.
Date: March 20, 1995
Target: Presidential Candidate Pat Buchanan
Location: Manchester, New Hampshire
Details: Four protesters, shouting "Buchanan is a racist" disrupted his press conference. Buchanan and his bodyguards shoved them off the stage.

1234.
Date: May 21, 1995
Target: Israeli Cabinet Minister Shulamit Aloni
Location: New York, New York
Details: An attacker climbed onto the stage during her speech and punched her in the abdomen.

1235.
Date: May 24, 1995
Target: President Bill Clinton
Location: Washington, D.C.
Details: A man jumped the southeast fence and ran toward the White House brandishing an unloaded revolver. Two uniformed officers wrestled with him. One officer shot the intruder in the arm and the bullet also hit the other officer.

1236.
Date: May 26, 1995
Target: President Bill Clinton
Location: Washington, D.C.
Details: A man carrying an unloaded gun scaled the White House fence. He was shot and wounded while scuffling with the Secret Service about 30 yards from the East Wing. He had asked to see Clinton.

1237.
Date: May 29, 1995
Target: Singer Madonna
Location: Hollywood Hills, California
Details: Robert Hoskins was shot three times by a security guard after he scaled the fence around her house. Hoskins survived, was tried, and sentenced to prison. He had been pursuing the singer for some time, reportedly tried to climb her fence some weeks earlier, and had expressed delusions about marrying her.

1238.
Date: October 6, 1995
Target: Pope John Paul II
Location: Yonkers, New York
Details: A man wearing a holstered gun and a park ranger's uniform was arrested when he tried to enter the seminary grounds for the Pope's speech. The man told police he was there to protect the Pope.

1239.
Date: December 1, 1995
Target: President Bill Clinton
Location: Washington, D.C.
Details: A man was arrested when he drove his car into a restricted area near the White House after a gate was opened to allow a tour bus to enter. His car contained a .22 rifle, several rounds of ammunition, a knife, and a machete.

1240.
Date: January 28, 1996
Target: Prime Minister Shimon Peres
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Details: Police fired tear gas, rubber bullets, and water cannons as thousands of protestors stormed Peres' office. Thirty officers were injured, including one who lost an eye and another who was paralyzed. Seventeen protesters were injured.

1241.
Date: February 2, 1996
Target: Governor George Allen
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Details: A man drove through a checkpoint and stopped at the gate of the Governor's Mansion. Police removed him from the vehicle and found a .380 pistol. He said he wanted help from Allen to get a job. He was held for a psychiatric examination.

1242.
Date: February 7, 1996
Target: European Envoy Hans Koschnick
Location: Mostar, Bosnia
Details: Hundreds of irate Bosnian Croats surrounded Koschnick's car and called for his death. Two French NATO armored vehicles rescued him.

1243.
Date: February 21, 1996
Target: Presidential Candidate Pat Buchanan
Location: Mount Rushmore, South Dakota
Details: Secret Service agents disarmed a supporter who showed up at Buchanan's rally. They returned the pistol unloaded to the man after the rally. It was Buchanan's first day under their protection.