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2009 Joao Bernardo Vierira, President of Guinea-Bissau is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence in Bissau
2007 Benazir Bhutto is assassinated by a bomb blast in Rawalpindi, Pakistan 2007 Benazir Bhutto, dies in Punjab, Pakistan, assassinated by Al-Quaeda, at 54 1996 Andrey Lukanov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1990, assassinated at 58 1995 Itzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel 1968 - 1973, assassinated 1995 Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with Palestinians 1995 Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, assassinated at 73 1995 Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Vice President of Columbia (1982-84), assassinated 1995 Beant Singh, Prime Minister of Punjab province of India, assassinated at 73 1995 Yahya Ayyash, nicknamed 'the Engineer,' chief bomb maker for Hamas, most wanted man in Israel, caused deaths of 90 Israelis, assassinated by Isreal's Shin Bet with a booby trapped cellular phone 1994 Giorgi Chanturia, President of Georgia, assassinated 1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi 1994 Cyprian Niayamira, president of Burundi (1993-94), assassinated 1994 Juvenal Habayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973), assassinated 1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician, assassinated 1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican President candidate, assassinated at 44 1993 Kasdi Merbah, Prime Minister of Algeria 1988 - 1989, assassinated 1993 Ranasinghe Premadasa, President (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), assassinated at 68 1993 Chris Hani, Secretary-General South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50 1992 Mohammed Boudiaf, president of Algeria, assassinated at 73 1992 Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated 1991 Ad Kosto, Dutch state secretary (PvdA), assassinated by bomb 1991 Shapur Bahktiar, Prime Minister of Iran 1979, assassinated 1991 Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated at 46 1991 Sallah Kharaf, Abu Iyad, co-founder (Al-Fatah), assassinated 1990 Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58 1990 Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia (1980-90), assassinated 1990 Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, Colombian President candidate, assassinated 1989 Rene Muawad, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon 1988 Khalil al-Wazir, PLO military commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos 1987 Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Commission assassinated by death squads 1986 Sven Olof Palme, Swedish Prime Minister 1969 - 1976, 1982 - 1986, assassinated at 59 1984 Body of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi cremated 1984 Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated by 2 of her bodyguards at age 66 1983 4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma 1981 [Mohammed] Anwar al-Sadat, President Egypt (1970-81), assassinated at 62 1981 Ayatollah Ali Qoddusi, prosecutor-general of Iran, assassinated 1981 Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb 1981 Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb 1981 Ziaur Rahmen, President of Bangladesh, is assassinated 1980 John Lennon, assassinated in New York by Mark David Chapman at 40 1980 Anastasio Somoza, former Nicaraguan President, assassinated in Paraguay 1979 Park Chung-hee, South Korean President, assassinated 1979 Louis Mountbatten, British Admiral of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA 1979 Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated in Holland 1978 Aldo Moro, 5 times Prime Minister of Italy, assassinated by terrorists 1978 Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, of La Prensa, assassinated in Managua 1976 Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated 1974 Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated in church 1974 Billy Fox, Protestant Dublin MP, assassinated 1973 Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain 1973, assassinated by ETA 1973 Richard Sharples, governor of Bermuda, assassinated 1973 Cleo Noel, U.S. ambassador to Sudan, assassinated 1971 Jack Barnhill, Northern Ireland senator, assassinated 1971 Wasfi Tal, Jordan's PM, assassinated by Black Sept in Cairo 1969 Tom Mboya, Kenyian economics minister, assassinated in Narobi at 65 1968 Robert F Kennedy, (Sn-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan at 42 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr., (Dream continues), assassinated in Memph at 39 1967 George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, assassinated 1966 Hendrik F Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister 1958 - 1966, assassinated at 64 1965 Malcolm X, Little, black Moslem leader, assassinated in New York City at 39 1963 John F Kennedy, 35th President (1961-63), assassinated in Dallas at 46 1963 Abdul Karim Kassem, Prime Minister of Iraq 1958 - 1963, assassinated in Baghdad at 48 1961 ? Trujillo, Dominican Republic president, assassinated at 69 1960 Hazza el-Majali, Prime Minister of Jordan is assassinated 1959 Prime Minister Kassem of Iraq, assassinated 1959 Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1956 - 1959, assassinated at 60 1959 S W R D Bandaranaike, Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk 1958 Nuries-Said, Iraqi soldier/statesman, assassinated, dies 1958 Faisal II, King of Iraq (1939-58), assassinated at Baghdad 1956 Anastasio Somoza, Nicaraguan dictator, assassinated by Roliberto Lopez 1955 Jose Antonio Remon, president of Panama 1952 - 1955, assassinated 1951 Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan 1947 - 1951, assassinated by Said Akbar 1951 Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated 1951 Ali Razmara, Shah of Iran (1950-51), assassinated 1951 Shah Ali Razmara, of Iran, assassinated 1948 Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt, assassinated 1948 Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator for Palestine, assassinated 1948 Mahatma Gandhi, assassinated in New Delhi 1948 Mahatma Gandhi, India's pacifist, assassinated 1945 Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament 1944 Newspaper editor Alejandro Cordova assassinated in Guatemala 1942 Reinhard Heydrich, German protector of Bohemia and Moravia, assassinated 1939 Armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard 1935 Huey P Long, (Sen-La) assassinated at Baton Rouge Capitol building 1934 Sergei M Kirov, Josef Stalin's collaborator, assassinated in Leningrad 1934 Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian chancellor assassinated by nazis 1934 Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by National Guard 1934 Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by National Guard 1933 Luis Sanchez Cerro, President of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza 1933 Anton J Cermak, (Mayor-D-Chicago), assassinated in Miami 1932 Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader; assassinated 1928 Alvaro Obregon, general/president of Mexico, assassinated 1927 Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch performer (governess), assassinated at 47 1927 Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State Vice President, assassinated 1927 Olof Palme, Stockholm, Prime Minister of Sweden, 1969 - 1976, 1982 - 1986, assassinated 1926 S V Petlura, Ukrainain ataman, assassinated by Shalom Schwarzbard 1926 Symon Petlyura, leader of Ukraine (pogroms), assassinated at 47 1925 Robert Francis Kennedy, Brookline, Mass, D-Sen-NY, AG; assassinated 1924 Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists 1923 J C Gomez, General/Venezuela's 1st Vice President, assassinated 1923 Vaslav Vorovsky, Russian delegate, assassinated 1923 Pamela Sharples, born in England, Baroness Sharples, BConservative Party, made a Life Peer of Chawton in the County of Hampshire, after husband, Sir Richard Sharples, was assassinated 1922 Gabriel Narutowicz, 1st President of Poland (Dec 7-16, 1922), assassinated 1919 Eugen Levine, head of 2nd Bavarian soviet republic, assassinated 1918 Stephen Tisza, Hungarian Prime Minister, assassinated by soldiers 1917 Chung Hee Park, general/president of S Korea, 1961-79, assassinated 1916 Grigori Efimovich Rasputin, Russian monk, assassinated 1916 Karl von Sturgkh, premier Austria, assassinated 1914 Jean Jaures, leading socialist, assassinated in Paris 1914 Franz Ferdinand, Austrian archduke (Sarajevo, Bosnia), assassinated 1914 Sophie, Princess of Austria, assassinated 1913 George I, king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67 1913 Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mexican president, assassinated in military coup at 39 1913 Suarez, Mexican vice president, assassinated in a miltary coup 1913 Nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM, assassinated 1911 Piotr Stolypin, Russia's PM, assassinated by Mordka Bogrov 1909 Horiboemi Ito, Prince of Japan, assassinated by a Korean 1908 Carlos I, King of Portugal (1889-1908), assassinated by mob at 44 1906 King Alfonso XIII, assassinated in Madrid 1906 Victoria von Battenberg, assassinated in Madrid 1903 Alexander I, King of Serbia are assassinated 1903 Dragia, Queen of Serbia, assassinated 1902 Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist 1902 Sipyagain, Russian Minister of Interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated 1901 Hendrik F. Verwoerd, premier South Africa, 1958-66, assassinated 1900 Umberto I, Italian King (1878-1900) assassinated by Gaetano Bresci 1900 Edward VII, King, assassinated 1882 Frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin 1882 Thomas Henry Burke, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin 1881 Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, assassinated at 62 1869 A J Hayne, black captain of Arkansas militia, assassinated 1868 B F Randolph, South Carolina state senator, assassinated 1865 Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at 7:22 am, Representative-R-Illinois 1847 - 1849, 16th president 1861 - 1865 1864 Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of blacks, assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC 1837 Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French President, 1887-94, ; assassinated 1639 George Jenatsch, Grisons leader, assassinated 1628 George Viliers, 1st duke of Buckingham, assassinated by Felton at 36 1589 Henry III, king of Poland/France (1573-89), assassinated at 37 1587 Michael Lauterbeck, assassinated Fries viceroy Willem Louis, executed 1570 Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out 1563 Francois Guise, French general/duke, assassinated at 44 1541 Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima 1537 Alessandro de' Medici, Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated 1327 Edward II, king of England (1307-1327), assassinated at 43 1291 Sa'ad al'Da'ulah, Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated 1170 Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II 1126 Al-Borsoki, emir of Aleppo-Mosoel, assassinated 1092 Aboe Ali Hasan ibn Nizam al-Moelk, writer (Sijasetname), assassinated 193 Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman Emperor (192-93), assassinated 41 Caligula, G C Germanicus, Roman emperor (37-41), assassinated at 28 |
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