2007-10-22 14:05:07 · 4 answers · asked by Kelly D 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Jing Ke - 210 BC - Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang
- Survived
Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and others - 44 BC - Roman Dictator Julius Caesar - Killed
Balthasar Gérard - 1584 - Dutch Stadtholder William the Silent - Killed (The first assassination carried out with a firearm.)
Guy Fawkes - 1605 - King James I of England, Parliament of England - Survived
François Ravaillac - 1610 - King Henri IV of France - Killed
Charlotte Corday - 1791 - French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat Killed
John Wilkes Booth - 1865 - US President Abraham Lincoln - Killed
Charles J. Guiteau - 1881 - US President James Garfield - Killed
Ignacy Hryniewiecki - 1881 - Tsar Alexander II of Russia - Killed
Frederick Russell Burnham - 1896 - Mlimo, the Ndebele religious leader - Killed
Leon Czolgosz - 1901 - US President William McKinley - Killed
Alexandros Schinas - 1913 - King George I of Greece - Killed
Gavrilo Princip - 1914 - Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand - Killed (Considered the start of World War I. )
Raoul Villain - 1914 - French socialist leader Jean Jaurès Killed
Fritz Joubert Duquesne - 1916 - Lord Kitchener, British Field Marshal and Secretary of State for War - Killed
Eligiusz Niewiadomski - 1922 - First Polish President Gabriel Narutowicz - Killed
Vlado Chernozemski - 1934 - Alexander I of Yugoslavia - Killed
Claus von Stauffenberg - 1944 - German dictator Adolf Hitler - Survived
Nathuram Godse - 1948 - Political and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi - Killed
Jean Bastien-Thiry and the OAS - 1962 - French President Charles de Gaulle - Survived
Nguyen Van Cu and Pham Phu Quoc - 1962 - President of the Republic of Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem - Survived
Lee Harvey Oswald - 1963 - US President John F. Kennedy - Killed
Jack Ruby - 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald - Killed
Sirhan Sirhan - 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy - Killed
Prince Faisal bin Musa'id - 1975 - Saudi King Faisal -Killed
Dan White - 1978 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk - Killed
Kim Jae-kyu - 1979 - South-Korean President Park Chung-hee - Killed
John Hinckley, Jr. - 1981 - Ronald Reagan - Survived
Khalid Islambouli - 1981 - Egyptian President Anwar Al Sadat - Killed
Mehmet Ali Ağca - 1981 - Catholic Pope John Paul II - Survived
Satwant Singh and Beant Singh - 1984 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi - Killed
Unknown assassin - 1986 - Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme - Killed
Thenmuli Rajaratnam - 1991 - Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi - Killed
Janusz Walus - 1993 - South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani - Killed
Yigal Amir - 1995 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin - Killed
Maxime Brunerie - 2002 - French President Jacques Chirac - Survived
2007-10-22 14:23:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out Sarah Vowell's "Assassination Vacation" about the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley. There's a rumor Warren Harding was murdered by his wife for his philandering, but that's not really an assassination.
John F. Kennedy in November 1963, of course, but I don't believe for a second Lee Harvey Oswald did it.
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April 1968, allegedly by James Earl Ray (although in later years, even King's family doubted he was the assassin).
Robert F. Kennedy was shot in June 1968, allegedly by Sirhan Sirhan.
Gerald Ford survived two assassination attempts in August 1975, both within days of each other, IIRC.
Congressman Leo Ryan was killed by the members of the People's Temple (Jim Jones and the poisoned Kool-Aid) in November 1978.
San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated in November 1978.
Ronald Reagan survived an assassination attempt in 1981 that gravely wounded James Brady.
During Bill Clinton's presidency, I think a plane crashed on the lawn and someone crashed a car into the gates.
2007-10-22 23:21:04 · answer #2 · answered by VeggieTart -- Let's Go Caps! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's Lincoln, and JFK that were successful (unfortunately), but not all succeeded. The guy who tried to kill Reagan almost killed him, but he recovered. Also, I think Saddam tried to assassinate Bush senior.
I'd suggest searching on the internet for political assassinations and go from there. There have probably been a lot of attempts that we don't have much info on.
2007-10-22 21:16:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Garfield, Lincoln, Kennedy...all deserved our respect and there families our prayers...
2007-10-22 21:09:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋