Assassinations

Assassination of Anwar Sadat

He was the Egyptians president who supported peace with Palestinians so he was killed by Egyptians (first Arab leader to recognize Israel)

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

John Wilkes Booth assassinated him during a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington DC on April 14, 1865.

Assassination of James A Garfield

Shot by a crazed man because he was not given a job, this assassination led to a reform of the spoils system within politics

Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko

He was a possible MI6 agent who had defected from Russia, where he was an FSB agent. (Criticized Putin, Mayfair Poisoning)

Assassination of RFK

June 5, 1968 - assassinated by disgruntled Arab nationalist Sirhan Sirhan after political speech

Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

In 1995, during a peace rally in Tel-Aviv, (Nobel peace prize winner and important Israeli politician) was killed by a Jewish extremist, causing chaos.

Assassination of King Faisal

was King of Saudi Arabia from 1965 to 1975, On March 25, 1975, was killed by his nephew, the prince

Assassination of Philip 2 of Macedonia

During a celebration of the marriage between Alexander I of Epirus and this man's daughter, he was killed by one of his own bodyguards, Pausanias of Orestis.

Assassination of Tsar Alexander 2

While on route to his usual Sunday appointment, his carriage came under attack in the form of a bomb thrown by Narodnaya Volya, a member of a Russian left-wing terrorist organization known as The People's Will.

Assassination of William McKinley

Shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York. He was shaking hands with the public when Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, shot him twice in the abdomen.

Assassination of Benazir Bhutto

was a Pakistani politician who served two non-consecutive terms as Prime Minister of Pakistan. 2007, she was shot

Assassination of Harvey Milk

was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California. assassinated by Dan White, a city supervisor who had recently resigned but wanted his old job back.

Assassination of Mohandas Gandhi

was the leader of Indian Nationalism in British Controlled India. he was accosted by Nathuram Godse, who fired three bullets into his chest at point-blank range. (1949)

Assassination of Indira Gandhi

Four months later, two of this Indian Prime Minister's elite Sikh bodyguards killed her. Thousands of Sikhs are slaughtered by Hindus in retaliation. her nephew, Rajiv Gandhi, signed a peace accord with Sikhs in 1985, but violence continues.

Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi

sixth Prime Minister of India, taking office the same day his mother was assassinated.

Assassination of JFK

On November 22, 1963, he arrived in Dallas with his wife, Jacqueline. As the president and the First Lady rode through the streets in an open car, several shots rang out. This man slumped against his wife. The car sped to a hospital, but the president was dead. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath of office as president. Johnson appointed Earl Warren, chief justice of the United States, to head a commission to investigate the shooting. After months of study, the Warren Commission issued its report. Oswald had acted on his own. Many people believed the assassination was a conspiracy, or secret plot.

Assassination of MLK Jr

April 4, 1968; murdered while standing on the balcony of his motel in Memphis; killed by James Earl Ray

Assassination of John Lennon

singer, songwriter, and founding member of the Beatles. Shot in the back 4 times by David Chapman

Assassination of Malcolm X

February 21, 1965, this black leader was assassinated as he started to address a rally in New York City

Assassination of Henry IV

1610: was killed by a fanatic who was angry about the religious tolerance he granted to Huguenots

Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

October 1941, Czech government-in-exile trains 24 men in a plan to assassinate this Nazi Officer. May 1942, Jan Kubis throws explosive at this man's car and he dies from injuries. Massive reprisals against civilians in response, including destruction of Czech village Ludice

Assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan

1951: was a lawyer, statesman, and one of the founding fathers of modern Pakistan. shot twice in the chest

Assassination of Julius Caesar

March 15, 44 BC: Julius Caesar was named Emperor of Rome and was killed in relation to his grab of power. Augustus filled Caesar's seat of power beginning the empirical reign in the Roman Empire

Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

1914 :Heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne who was assassinated in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which triggered the Austro-Hungarians to pledge war against Serbia, which then initiated World War I.