assassination
willful killing of a prominent person, often a political leader or ruler
Operation Vengeance
1943 American military operation to kill Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
The Cradock Four
The Cradock Four were a group of four anti-apartheid activists who were abducted and murdered by South African security police in June 1985
assassination of Henry Liu
1984 assassination of Taiwanese writer Henry Liu
assassination of Ali
Fourth Rashidun and first Shia Imam caliph was assassinated by a Kharijite called Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Amr ibn Muljam al-Muradi on 26 January 661, at the Great Mosque of Kufah in present-day Iraq
assassination of Alfred Herrhausen
murder by bomb attack in November 1989
assassination of Sergei Kirov
1934 murder of a Soviet statesman triggered the Great Purge in the Soviet Union
assassination of Eloy Alfaro
1912 assassination of Eloy Alfaro
Assassination of Fernando Villavicencio
assassination of an Ecuadorean presidential candidate
killing of Ahmed Yassin
2004 assassination of a Palestinian leader
bomb attack
action whereby a bomb is used to kill one or more people or to damage or destroy objects
assassination of Julius Caesar
stabbing attack that caused the death of Julius Caesar
Operation Nemesis
assassination campaign by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation carried out between 1920 and 1922
assassination of Calvo Sotelo
1936 killing of Spanish monarchist leader
Assassination of Wade Perrin
1870 murder in Joanna, South Carolina, US
assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
1991 assassination of the 6th Prime Minister of India
assassination of Leon Trotsky
murder of Trotsky, 20 August 1940
Reinhard Heydrich assassination
special operation by soldiers of the Czechoslovak army-in-exile during WW2
assassination of Kim Jong-nam
2017 murder in Malaysia
Assassination of Wallenstein
killing of an army general and his soldiers in the German state
Assassination of Luca Attanasio
2021 murder of an Italian diplomat
killing of Peter R. de Vries
2021 murder of a Dutch investigative journalist
death of Osama bin Laden
U.S. military operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan
assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
1914 murder of the Archduke of Austria-Este
assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
1968 murder in Los Angeles, California, US
execution of the Romanov family
1918 murder of Nicholas II of Russia and his family
assassination of Theo van Gogh
2004 murder
assassination of Olof Palme
February 1986 murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme
assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
1948 assassination
Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco
political killing in 1973 by ETA
Assassination of Henry I, Duke of Guise
assassination in 1588 in Blois, in the King of France’s chamber
assassination of Narayan Rao
1773 murder in modern-day Maharashtra, India
assassination of Thomas Ashton
1831 murder in Manchester, England
assassination of John F. Kennedy
1963 murder of the 35th U.S. President
assassination of Abraham Lincoln
1865 murder of the 16th President of the United States
League of Blood Incident
1932 assassination plot in Japan
assassination of William McKinley
1901 assassination in Buffalo, New York, US
assassination of Spencer Perceval
1812 murder of the British prime minister
assassination of Airey Neave
1979 murder in City of Westminister, London
Assassination of Rockwell International personnel in Tehran
Terrorist attack in 1976
Assassination of Arjun Dass
1985 assassination of politician in New Delhi, India