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.
3rd October 1918: Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria comes to the throne
3rd October 2017
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.
On the 15th January 1919, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were killed by members of the Freikorps.
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.
On the 30th August 1918, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov – better known as Lenin – was the victim of a failed assassination plot.
The radical French journalist Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.
The 28th June saw both the trigger and the definitive end of the First World War.
On the 4th April 1968, Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 39.
On the 3rd April 1882, the American outlaw Jesse James was shot dead by fellow gang-member Robert Ford.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017