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- Mohandas Gandhi, political and spiritual leader of India, 1948. Assassin: Nathuram Godse. Motive: Godse was angry over India's decision to give 420 million rupees to Pakistan.
- John F. Kennedy, U.S. President, 1963. Assassin: Lee Harvey Oswald. Motive: The Warren Commission failed to assign a specific motive. What happened next: Conspiracy theories; a general stunned reaction from American citizens, who reported feeling ill and angry; and the murder of brother Robert eight years later by the mentally disturbed anti-Zionist Christian Sirhan Sirhan.
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand, probable heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, 1914. Assassin: Gavrilo Princip. Motive: Princip was one of seven members of Young Bosnia, a Bosnian Serb terrorist organization; wanted to eliminate Ferdinand and ruling powers to gain independence from Austria-Hungary and to be part Serbia.
- Julius Caesar, Roman military leader, 44 BC. Assassin: Rome's Senate, led by Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Junius Brutus. Motive: To overthrow Caesar. What happened next: The end of Roman Republic after middle and lower classes in Rome were so enraged that a group of aristocrats had killed Caesar.
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- Alexander Litvinenko. A one-time FSB agent and subsequent outspoken critic of Russian government, Litivinenko was poisoned in London on November 1, 2006.
- Pierre Laporte. Kidnapped by FLQ members while playing football with his nephew outside his home, Laporte's dissappearance marked the height of the 1970 October Crisis.
- Benazir Bhutto. The secularist, liberal Bhutto was the first female democratic head of government to lead a Muslim majority country. Prime Minister of Pakistan during 1988-1990 and 1993-1996, she was murdered on December 27, 2007, after a man firing shots at her bullet-proof car detonated a suicide-vest.
- Yitzhak Rabin. After three previous attempts on his life, this two-term Prime Minister of Israel was assassinated on November 4, 1995, a date corresponding to the 12 of Heshvan on the Hebrew Calendar.
This is a list of assassinations, sorted by location. For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the deliberate, premeditated murder of a prominent figure, often for religious, political or monetary reasons.
DateVictim (s)Assassin (s)2019Héctor Enrique Olivares, National Deputy ...Juan Jesús Fernández and Juan José ...1997José Luis Cabezas, photojournalist for ..."Los Horneros" gang, led by Buenos Aires ...1985Osvaldo Sivak, bankerJosé Benigno Lorea, police officer1978Miguel Tobías Padilla, Undersecretary for ...MontonerosJan 10, 2020 · From political leaders to human rights activists to former Russian spies, assassinations have changed the world. Beloved politicians like Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King...
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Get ready to witness the 20th Century's most damaging and outrageous assassination attempts, first-hand. From the assassination of John F Kennedy to the gunning down of Mahatma Gandhi, the tragic shooting of John Lennon to the brutal bombing of one of Hitler's henchmen, the BBC s... Read all.
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Nine famous assassinations occurring since 1865 appear in this list. John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. Lee Harvey Oswald holding a Russian newspaper and a rifle. The Warren Commission concluded that the rifle was used to assassinate U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy. Everett Collection/age fotostock.
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Nov 16, 2021 · The murder of prominent figures has historically sparked soul-searching, mass outpourings of grief and even conspiracy theories, as people struggle to come to terms with the consequences of assassinations. Here are 10 assassinations from history that shaped the modern world. 1. Abraham Lincoln (1865)
