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Assassination of Rasputin
The assassination of Rasputin (Убийство Распутина) was the killing of Grigory Rasputin, confidant of Tsar Nicholas II, by aristocratic conspirators in Petrograd in December 1916.
Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
Operation Anthropoid: the 27 May 1942 SOE and Czechoslovak-exile assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague by Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík, followed by the Lidice and Ležáky reprisals.
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, also called the RFK shooting: Senator and 1968 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot by Sirhan Sirhan on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, after winning the California primary; covers the LAPD investigation, trial, motive, bullet controversies, and parole history.
Assassination of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
Assassination of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Muammar Gaddafi, killed 3 February 2026 in Zintan, Libya, by four masked gunmen; former ICC indictee, 2015 death sentence, 2021 presidential candidate; funeral in Bani Walid.
Assassination of Sennacherib
The assassination of Sennacherib, also known as the murder of Sennacherib, was the stabbing of the Assyrian king by his sons, led by Urad-Mullissu, in Nineveh in 681 BC.
Assassination of Senzangakhona and accession of Shaka
The assassination of Senzangakhona and accession of Shaka was the violent 1816 Zulu succession in which Shaka (uShaka), backed by Dingiswayo of the Mthethwa, took the chieftainship and built the Zulu kingdom.
Assassination of Shajar al-Durr
The assassination of Shajar al-Durr (قتل شجر الدر) was the killing of Egypt's former sultana in Cairo in April 1257, days after she had her husband, Sultan Aybak, murdered.
Assassination of Shaka
The assassination of Shaka (Ukubulawa kukaShaka) was the killing of the Zulu king Shaka by his half-brothers Dingane and Mhlangana, with the bodyguard Mbopha, at Dukuza in 1828, after which Dingane took the throne.
Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
The Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the killing of Bangabandhu, was the 15 August 1975 coup killing of Bangladesh's founding president and most of his family by junior army officers in Dhaka, followed by the 3 November jail killings and decades of trials.
Assassination of Shinzo Abe
The assassination of Shinzo Abe (安倍晋三) was the fatal shooting of Japan's former prime minister with a handmade gun during a campaign speech in Nara on July 8, 2022.
Assassination of Sidhu Moose Wala
Assassination of Sidhu Moose Wala: Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, Punjabi rapper and Congress leader, shot dead May 29, 2022 at Jawaharke, Mansa, a day after security cuts; Goldy Brar of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang claimed responsibility; trial ongoing, no convictions.
Assassination of Song Jiaoren
The Assassination of Song Jiaoren (宋教仁遇刺案) was the fatal shooting of the Nationalist parliamentary leader at Shanghai railway station in March 1913, provoking the Second Revolution.
Assassination of Stolypin
The Assassination of Stolypin (Убийство Столыпина) was the fatal shooting of Pyotr Stolypin, prime minister of the Russian Empire, by Dmitry Bogrov at a Kiev theater on 1 September 1911.
Assassination of Sucre
The Assassination of Sucre (Asesinato de Antonio José de Sucre) was the murder of Simón Bolívar's chief lieutenant at Berruecos, Gran Colombia, on 4 June 1830.
Assassination of Thomas Sankara
The assassination of Thomas Sankara was the killing of Burkina Faso's president in Ouagadougou on 15 October 1987 by commandos loyal to his deputy, Blaise Compaoré, who then ruled for 27 years.
Assassination of Tom Mboya
The assassination of Tom Mboya was the fatal shooting of Kenyan minister Tom Mboya on a Nairobi street on 5 July 1969, a pivotal event in Kenya's post-colonial history.
Assassination of Tukulti-Ninurta I
The assassination of Tukulti-Ninurta I was the killing of the Assyrian king and conqueror of Babylon by his son Ashur-nadin-apli and the Assyrian nobles, dated to about 1197–1208 BC.
Assassination of Turanshah
The assassination of Turanshah was the killing of the Ayyubid sultan al-Muazzam Turanshah by his father's Bahri Mamluks at Faraskur, Egypt, on 2 May 1250.
Assassination of Umberto I of Italy
Umberto I of Italy was shot dead by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci in Monza on 29 July 1900, in revenge for the 1898 Milan bread riot repression.
Assassination of Venustiano Carranza
The assassination of Venustiano Carranza was the killing of Mexico's sitting president by armed men led by Rodolfo Herrero at Tlaxcalantongo, Puebla, in May 1920.
Assassination of Wasfi Tal
Assassination of Wasfi Tal (وصفي التل): Black September gunmen killed Jordan's prime minister and defense minister at Cairo's Sheraton Hotel, 28 November 1971, as revenge for expelling the PLO's fedayeen from Jordan.
Assassination of William McKinley
Assassination of William McKinley: shooting of the 25th US president by anarchist Leon Czolgosz on September 6, 1901, at Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition Temple of Music; McKinley died September 14 of gangrene, and the killing led to full-time Secret Service protection.
Assassination of Wu Qi
The Assassination of Wu Qi (吴起之死) was the killing of the Chu statesman and military reformer Wu Qi by royal-clan nobles in 381 BC, just after King Dao died.
Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
The November 4, 1995 murder of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by Jewish extremist Yigal Amir at a Tel Aviv peace rally; covers the Shamgar Commission, Shin Bet failures, and contested commemoration.
Assassination of Zengi
The Assassination of Zengi (اغتيال زنكي) was the killing of Imad al-Din Zengi, atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo, by his mamluk guard Yaranqush while besieging Qal'at Ja'bar in September 1146.
Assata Shakur
Assata Shakur (JoAnne Chesimard), Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member, convicted 1977 of killing a NJ trooper, escaped prison 1979, lived in Cuban asylum from 1984, FBI first female Most Wanted Terrorist; died 2025 in Havana at 78.
Assault
Assault, in tort and criminal law, is an intentional act creating reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact, or in many criminal codes an attempt or act causing physical injury; distinct from battery, definitions vary by jurisdiction.
Assault of Abner Louima
The 1997 assault of Abner Louima: NYPD officers beat and sodomized the Haitian immigrant at Brooklyn's 70th Precinct; Justin Volpe got 30 years, Schwarz's conviction was reversed, and the city paid $8.7 million.
Assault weapons legislation in the United States
Assault weapons legislation in the United States: the 1994-2004 federal ban on semiautomatic assault weapons and magazines over 10 rounds, its definitions and expiry, state bans such as California's 1989 law, and current Second Amendment litigation.
Assemblies of God
The Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal Christian fellowship founded in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1914, reports 3 million US and over 88 million worldwide adherents.