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10. Jan. 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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- Abraham Lincoln
- Tsar Alexander II
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- Reinhard Heydrich
- Mahatma Gandhi
- John F. Kennedy
- Martin Luther King
- Indira Gandhi
- Yitzhak Rabin
- Benazir Bhutto
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Abraham Lincoln is arguably America’s most famous president: he led America through the Civil War, preserved the Union, abolished slavery, modernised the economy and bolstered the federal government. A champion of black rights, including voting rights, Lincoln was disliked by Confederate states. His assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was a Confederate sp...
Tsar Alexander IIwas known as the ‘Liberator’, enacting wide-ranging liberal reforms across Russia. His policies included the emancipation of serfs (peasant labourers) in 1861, the abolition of corporal punishment, the promotion of self-government and the ending of some of the nobility’s historic privileges. His reign coincided with an increasingly...
In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was assassinated by a Serbian named Gavilo Princip in Sarajevo. Frustrated by the Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia, Princip was a member of a nationalist organisation entitled Young Bosnia, which aimed to free Bosnia from the shackles of external occupation. The assas...
Nicknamed the ‘man with the iron heart’, Heydrich was one of the most important Nazis, and one of the main architects of the Holocaust. His brutality and chilling efficiency earned him the fear and loyalty of many, and unsurprisingly, many loathed him for his role in anti-Semitic policies across Nazi Europe. Heydrich was assassinated on the orders ...
One of the earliest heroes of the civil rights movement, Gandhispearheaded non-violent resistance to British rule as part of the Indian quest for independence. Having successfully helped campaign for independence, which was achieved in 1947, Gandhi turned his attention to trying to prevent religious violence between Hindus and Muslims. He was assas...
President John F. Kennedywas America’s darling: young, charming and idealistic, Kennedy was welcome with open arms by many in the US, particularly due to his New Frontier domestic policies and staunchly anti-Communist foreign policy. Kennedy was assassinated on 22 November 1963 in Dallas, Texas. His death shocked the nation. Despite serving less th...
As the leader of the Civil Rights Movement in America, Martin Luther Kingmet with plenty of anger and opposition over his career, including a nearly fatal stabbing in 1958, and he regularly received violent threats. Reportedly after hearing about JFK’s assassination in 1963, King told his wife that he believed he would die by assassination too. Kin...
Another victim of religious tensions in India, Indira Gandhi was the 3rd Prime Minister of India and remains the country’s only female leader to date. A somewhat divisive figure, Gandhi was politically intransigent: she supported the independence movement in East Pakistan and went to war over it, helping create Bangladesh. A Hindu, she was assassin...
Yitzhak Rabin was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel: first elected in 1974, he was re-elected in 1992 on a platform that embraced the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process. Subsequently, he signed various historic agreements as part of the Oslo Peace Accords, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994. He was assassinated in 1995 by a right-wing extremist ...
The first female Prime Minister of Pakistan, and the first woman to head a democratic government in a Muslim majority country, Benazir Bhutto was one of Pakistan’s most important political figures. Killed by a suicide bomb at a political rally in 2007, her death shook the international community. However, many were not surprised by it. Bhutto was a...
Learn how the deaths of prominent figures such as Lincoln, Gandhi and JFK shaped the modern world. Explore the political, social and cultural consequences of these assassinations and the motives and methods of the killers.
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8. Mai 2024 · 6 Assassinations That Changed History. Assassinations always shock the masses. But sometimes, taking out a prominent figure can have a ripple effect on the future, changing the world as we know it.
8. Juli 2022 · With the fatal shooting of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, we look back at other assassinations around the world during the past six decades.
9. Juni 2023 · As people continue to disagree or wrong each other, and tensions reach their breaking point, prominent figures around the globe face violence. While it is difficult to truly measure the effect of a human life, here are 12 assassinations that changed the world forever.
Assassination, the murder of an opponent or well-known public figure, is one of the oldest tools of power struggles, as well as the expression of certain psychopathic disorders. It dates back to the earliest governments and tribal structures of the world.
5. Jan. 2021 · In a world globalized by social media, more lone-wolf assassins seek their fifteen minutes of fame by taking out a famous figure, while leaders of world powers have everything to gain by decapitating terrorist organizations, employing the latest surveillance technology to obliterate their leaders.
- Nigel Cawthorne
