How Cold War dissident Georgi Markov was murdered with an UMBRELLA: Writer died 45 years ago today after assailant fired pinhead ricin pellet into his leg on Waterloo Bridge... and mystery STILL surrounds who carried out assassination
On September 7, 1978, Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident writer working for the BBC , felt a slight sharp pain while waiting for a bus on Waterloo Bridge in London.
Source: dailymail.co.uk