On the 23rd July 1914, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia specifically designed to be rejected and lead to war between the two countries.
James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C.
He was dragged out of the barn where he had been hiding and died three hours later.
Would-be assassin Richard Lawrence was found ‘not guilty by reason of insanity’ and was committed to an asylum.
On the 15th January 1919, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were killed by members of the Freikorps.
White was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter after pleading a state of mental diminished capacity, and the lenient sentence sparked the White Night riots of 21 May 1979.
At 12.30pm on Friday November 22nd 1963, President John F. Kennedy of the United States of America was fatally shot as his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.
On the 13th October AD 54, the Roman Emperor Claudius died, supposedly after being poisoned.
President William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist during a meet-and-greet.
On the 30th August 1918, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov – better known as Lenin – was the victim of a failed assassination plot.
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