Abraham Lincoln Former United States President dies of gunshot wounds April 15, 1865 in Washington, DC The day before, Lincoln had been shot by the famous actor and Southern supporter John W. Booth during a theatrical performance at Ford’s Theater. KILLED: President Abraham Lincoln was killed while at a theater. Photo: Labor Party The background for the assassination was the bloody civil war between the southern states and the northern states. When Lincoln was elected President of the Republican Party in 1860, the southern states withdrew from the union, and the Civil War broke out. Lincoln was killed a few days after the end of the Civil War. Lincoln’s main goal was to save the union, and saw the abolition of slavery as an important part of the process. Franz Ferdinand On June 28, 1914, the Archduke of Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand, visits Sarajevo with his wife Sophie von Hohenberg. WAR: Archduke Franz Ferdinand shortly before he is shot. The murder of him is considered the starting shot for the First World War. Photo: AFP Exactly one month after the “Sarajevo shootings”, Austria-Hungary and Serbia declared war. On August 1, Germany declared war on Russia. In reality, there was also a declaration of war against France, which was allied with Russia, writes NTB. And when Germany invaded Belgium as part of the offensive against France, Britain also declared war on Germany on 4 August. World War I was underway. A total of 9 million were killed during the four years of the war. Tsar Nicholas II In the middle of the night of July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II was assassinated along with his wife Alexander and his five children and four servants and aides in a basement of a house in Yekaterinburg in the Urals. The year before, revolution had blown out of the country. It had pressured Nikolaj to relinquish power. Thus, over 400 years of Romanov rule came to an end. END: Tsar Nikolai II was the last Romanov to rule Russia. Photo: STRINGER / Afp In November 1917, the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin and Lev Trotsky, seized power in the country. The Bolsheviks planned a trial against the tsar, but when enemy forces in July 1918 approached Yekaterinburg, they were all executed. Nearly 100 years after the killings, the Russian Supreme Court ruled that the family had been the victim of a crime. NAME: Gandhi was considered a Mahatma, meaning “great soul”, a holy man. Photo: Labor Party Mahatma Gandhi The Indian politician, whose real name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, led the nationalist movement against the British government in India. Mahatma Gandhi is best known for his use of non-violent methods, which helped make India independent of the British in 1947. On January 30, 1948, he was assassinated in Delhi by a fanatical Hindu nationalist. Gandhi was himself a Hindu, and was in the middle of a fasting period when the murder took place. Gandhi was concerned that all religions should be respected. Many Hindus disliked this believing that the dominant religion should have a greater political role. SHOT: US President John F. Kennedy shortly before he is shot and killed. Photo: Jim Altgens / AP John F. Kennedy Nearly 100 years after Lincoln was shot and killed, another American president met the same fate. Democratic President John F. Kennedy was shot in the open on November 22, 1963. The president was in Dallas, Texas, to gather support for the nomination before the 1964 presidential election. born when the murder occurred. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested immediately after the murder, but pleaded not guilty. The trial against Oswald was never completed, a few months after the Kennedy assassination he was shot and killed. Che Guevara Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, better known as “Che” Guevara, was a Marxist guerrilla leader. Originally from Argentina, but with Cuban citizenship. He wanted to recreate the Cuban revolution in Bolivia, South America’s poorest country. In 1967 he went to Bolivia to organize a guerrilla war against the regime. For a short time, Che led a small group of guerrillas. They struggled to get support among the locals. ICONIC: The famous picture of Che Guevara taken by Alberto Korda in 1960. The famous revolutionary leader was killed in the jungles of Bolivia, in October 1967. Bolivian soldiers, trained and equipped by American elite soldiers and CIA agents, were behind the killing. The next day, the soldiers had laid Ches’ body on display in a sink at Senor de Malta Hospital in Vallegrande in the Bolivian jungle. Here they showed the journalist that the man whom the then military regime in Bolivia feared most was really dead. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the leaders of the nonviolent struggle for the equality of the black population in American society. In 1964 he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work. Four years later, on April 4, 1968, he was shot on a hotel balcony in Memphis. A few hours later, he died at the hospital, just 39 years old. NOBEL: Civil rights activist won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Photo: Henrik Laurvik / NTB The killer, James Earl Ray, escaped from the scene, but was arrested at Heathrow Airport outside London two months later. King contributed to some of the most important changes in US law during the post-war period. His birthday, January 15, is an official holiday in the United States. Olof Palme FLOWERS: Olof Palme, was shot down and killed on Sveavägen in Stockholm. The picture clearly shows the scene where flowers are placed in the pool of blood on the sidewalk. Photo: Scanpix Sweden / NTB scanpix Sweden’s Prime Minister, Olof Palme, was on his way home from the cinema with his wife when he was shot and killed in the open street, in the middle of Stockholm, 28 February 1986. An unknown perpetrator shoots the Prime Minister in the back. Shortly afterwards, Palme is pronounced dead. He served as Prime Minister of the Social Democrats for a total of 13 years, until his death. Despite extensive investigations, it is still not known who killed the prime minister. Benazir Bhutto In Christmas 2007, Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was killed in a suicide attack during an election rally. In 1988, Bhutto became the world’s first female prime minister in a Muslim country. She was then 35 years old. FIRST: Benazir Bhutto was the first female Prime Minister of a Muslim country. Photo: MIAN KHURSHEED / REUTERS At the time, she was considered one of the most powerful women in the world. Twenty months later, Bhutto and her government were ousted by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, accused of corruption and mismanagement. The accusations of corruption led to Bhutto living in self-elected exile in Kuwait from 1999. In 2007, she was granted an amnesty against the accusations, and returned to the country in October. Only a few months later, she died in the suicide attack while campaigning to become the country’s prime minister again. SHOT: Former Marine Tetsuya Yamagami (41) has admitted to shooting and killing Shinzo Abe with a homemade weapon. Yamagami told police he was unhappy with Abe and wanted to kill him. Photo: AP Shinzo Abe Shinzo Abe was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister. He ruled the country for one year from 2006 to 2007, then from 2012 to 2020. On July 8, 2022, he was shot and killed at an election rally in Nara outside Osaka. Former Marine Tetsuya Yamagami (41) has admitted to shooting and killing him with a homemade weapon. According to the Japanese broadcaster NHK, Yamagami told the police that he was dissatisfied with Abe and wanted to kill him. During questioning, Yamagami is said to have appeared calm and indifferent. Abe left the presidency two years ago due to health problems. He was also the leader of the ruling LDP party. He was a conservative politician who fought to build a more active military and overthrow Japan’s pacifist constitution.
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