President William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist during a meet-and-greet.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The radical French journalist Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.
King was standing on the balcony outside his room at the Lorrain Motel in Memphis when he was hit by a single bullet that shattered his jaw and several vertebrae.
When Kennedy’s motorcade was barely five minutes away from its destination, gunshots rang out as it passed the Texas School Book Depository.
Ancient sources state that the Emperor Claudius as poisoned, although who administered the poison – and on whose orders – continues to be fiercely debated by scholars.
The assassination of Lenin was attempted by Fanya Kaplan, a member of the anti-Bolshevik faction of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.
Leon Trotsky was fatally wounded with an ice axe by Spanish communist Ramón Mercader.
Exactly one month after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.
The Romanov family were all shot or stabbed by bayonets, and their bodies were taken away in a truck and disposed of in a forest twelve miles north of the city.
Although the popular name suggests the purge lasted for one night, the executions went on throughout the weekend.
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