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Events on Monday 14 February 2005 1
2005Assassination of Rafic HaririFormer Lebanese prime minister killed in Beirut bombingFormer Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri was killed along with 21 others when a truck bomb exploded near his motorcade in Beirut on 14 February 2005. The assassination triggered mass protests known as the Cedar Revolution and international pressure that led to Syria's withdrawal from Lebanon. A UN-backed tribunal later investigated the killing.