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By Austin Cline, About.com Guide to Atheism since 1998

This Date in History: Aum Shinrikyo

Saturday February 26, 2005
February 27, 2004: In Japan, Shoko Asahara was sentenced to death by hanging. Asahara was the leader of Aum Shinrikyo (Aum Supreme Truth), a Japanese cult that gassed the Tokyo subway in 1995.

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