Puniša Račić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetPuniša Račić
Serbian politician
Date of Birth: 12-Jul-1886
Place of Birth: Slatina, Andrijevica Municipality, Montenegro
Date of Death: 16-Oct-1944
Profession: politician
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Puniša Račić
- Puniša Racic (Serbian Cyrillic: ?????? ?????; 12 July 1886 – 16 October 1944) was a Montenegrin Serb leader and People's Radical Party (NRS) politician.
- He assassinated Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) representatives Pavle Radic and Ðuro Basaricek and mortally wounded HSS leader Stjepan Radic in a shooting which took place on the floor of the Yugoslavian parliament on 20 June 1928.
- He was tried and handed a sixty-year sentence, which was immediately reduced to twenty years.
- He served most of his sentence under house arrest and was killed by the Yugoslav Partisans in October 1944.
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