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The Assassination of Ernst Roehm
Munich 1934: The Night of The Long Knives Flying into Munich in the early hours of 20th June 1934, Adolf Hitler, then C
The attempt on Princess Anne
London, 1974 As the Queen"s daughter travelled from Buckingham Palace along the Mall, she was attacked by a gunman who
The Assassination of John Lennon
New York, 1980 On 8th December 1980, outside the Dakota Building, the 40 year-old Beatle was shot dead by Mark David Ch
The Assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten
Ireland, 1979 The former Viceroy of India and cousin of the Queen, Lord Mountbatten was a World War II naval hero, Alli
The Assassination of Trotsky
Russia, 1940 On 20 August 1940, the exiled Bolshevik leader was assassinated with an ice-pick by Ramon Mercader, who wa
The Assassination of Pope John Paul II
Rome, 1981 On 13 May 1981, in front of a crowd of 20,000 people in St Peter''s Square, a young Turkish gunman shot the
The Assassination of Sikorski
Gibraltar, 1943 On 4th July, 1943, General Wladyslaw Eugeniusz Sikorski, Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Army, was fly
The Assassination of President McKinley
Buffalo, New York, 1901 On 6th September 1901, whilst opening an expedition, President McKinley was shot by Polish anar
The Assassination of Heydrich
On the morning of 10th June 1942, whilst driving his open-top Mercedes to his office, Hitler"s effective deputy and arch
The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
On 4th November 1995, as he was about to address a mass rally of his supporters celebrating the Israeli-Palestinian Peac
The Assassination of Zia Al Huq
On August 17 1988, en route for a military base in Northern Pakistan, Pakistan's pro-military strongman was brought down
The Assassination of Verwoerd
Cape Town, 1966 On 6 September 1966, seven minutes after taking his seat in the House of Assembly, South African Prime
The Assassinations of Indira & Rajiv Gandhi
India, 1984 & 1989 Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, was assassinated on 31st October 1984 by her Sikh bodyguards
The Assassination of Che Guevara
Bolivia, 1967 Born to a middle-class Argentine family, Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara became an icon for revolution and rebell
The Assassination of Anwar Sadat
Cairo, 1981 On 6 October 1981, wearing a black ceremonial uniform at a military parade, the Egyptian President was shot
The Attempt on Ronald Reagan
Washington, 1981 On 30th March 1981, as US President Ronald Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel, 25-year-old
The Assassination of Michael Collins
Eire, 1922 One of the most charismatic leaders in the struggle for Irish independence from British rule, Michael Collin
The Attempts on De Gaulle
France, 1961: The Day of the Jackal There were three attempts to kill General de Gaulle, all of which were unsuccessful
The Attempt on Hitler
Rastenburg, 1944 Although there had been two previous attempts to kill Hitler, including poisoning a bottle of Cointrea
The Assassination of Robert Kennedy
Los Angeles, 1968 On 6th June 1968, hours after winning the Californian Democratic Primary election, Senator Robert Ken
The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
New Delhi, 1948 India''s greatest founding father was a champion of peaceful protest, yet ironically he was gunned down
The Assassination of Martin Luther King
Memphis, 1968 After leading mass protests in Birmingham Alabama and his "I have a dream" speech, Martin Luther King too
The Assassination of Tsar Nicholas II
Yekaterinburg, 1918 After a disastrous war with Germany, the Bolsheviks imprisoned the Romanov family as their supporte
The Assassination of King Alexander
Marseille, 1934 On 9th October 1934, just after King Alexander of Yugoslavia had arrived in the cruiser Dubrovnik for a
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Sarajevo, 1914 A group of Serbian nationalists were determined to kill the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Two of
The Assassination of John F Kennedy
Dallas, 1963 By 22 November 1963, the date of his assassination, President Kennedy had made many enemies. He had declar
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