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.
On the 15th March 44BCE, Roman dictator Julius Caesar was stabbed to death near to the Theatre of Pompey in Rome.
On the 13th March 1881, Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated in a St Petersburg street by a member of the People’s Will revolutionary movement.
On the 24th January 41 CE, Caligula became the first Roman Emperor to be assassinated.
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