What associations arise when you hear the expression "loud murder"? Probably a public figure, terrorism, sniper, poison and many other frightening things.
Below is a list of sensational attempts on the lives of famous people who influenced the course of history. Some of them were committed a long time ago, some not very, but all of them were planned and executed so professionally that even after years the names of some murderers remained unknown.
1. Alexander Litvinenko
A former Russian FSB agent, Alexander Litvinenko, fled with his family to the UK, where in 2006 he mysteriously fell ill and died. It turned out that the man had drunk tea to which radioactive polonium-210 had been mixed. FSBschnik died in a hospital bed.
By the way, Alexander is the first recorded victim of polonium-210 with a fatal outcome due to acute radiation sickness.
2. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The 35th US president, who was in his open limousine on one of the central streets of Dallas, was mortally wounded by a sniper rifle in broad daylight. A specially created commission showed that the killer Kennedy was the shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald. The killing of DFC has shocked not only the US, but the whole world.
3. Lee Harvey Oswald
It's funny that two days later Oswald himself was assassinated. During his transfer to the district jail, the owner of a nightclub in Dallas, Jack Ruby, emerged from the crowd and fired Harvey into the stomach. Under US law, the deceased can not be tried, but according to the conclusions of the Warren Commission, he is called a murderer. However, according to sociological surveys 70% of Americans do not believe in the official version of the Kennedy assassination.
4. Robert Kennedy
Five years after his brother's death, Robert Kennedy was also killed during the company for the presidency of the United States. After Robert's death, all the candidates participating in the presidential race were assigned personal protection.
5. Bhutto Benazir
The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Bhutto Benazir, was killed by shots in her neck and chest while speaking at a rally in front of her supporters. The woman died in the hospital an hour after the terrorist attack.
6. James Abram Garfield
President Garfield was shot twice in the back when he was at the train station in Washington, but it turned out that this was not the reason for his death, but only a banal anti-sanitation (the doctors climbed into the wound to get bullets, without gloves and disinfection) .
7. William McKinley
The 25th president was injured during his speech by Leon Frank Cholgosz. Despite the injuries, McKinley pacified the crowd, ready to lynch murderer. Unfortunately, 10 days later, McKinley died of complications of wound infection.
8. Indira Gandhi
India's third prime minister, Indira Gandhi, was killed by her own bodyguards, who were Sikhs. On the day of preparation for a television interview with an English writer, Indira took off her bulletproof vest and, greeting her to the reception, greeted her "bodyguards". In response, one of the men released 3 bullets in Gandhi, and his partner slashed it with an automatic burst. Save Indira failed - 8 bullets hit the vital organs.
9. Rajiv Gandhi
The son of the murdered Indira Gandhi, Rajiv, was elected prime minister on the day of his mother's death. More than 20 people, including Rajiv, were killed during the election campaign as a result of the terrorist attack carried out by the suicide bomber.
10. Liahat Ali Khan
The founder of modern Pakistan, Liaqat Ali Khan, was shot dead by an Afghan during a public speech. The cause of the attack could not be clarified, since the attacker was shot at the crime scene.
11. Reinhard Heydrich
A high-ranking Nazi officer, an architect of the Holocaust, "a man with an iron heart" (as he was called by A. Hitler himself), "Prague butcher" (received this nickname for cruel treatment of the Czechs) - all this Reinhard Heydrich, the only successful attempt on which was committed 2-Czechs (Joseph Gabchik and Jan Kubish) during the Second World War. The operation was called "Anthropoid" and was aimed at raising the prestige of the Resistance. Unfortunately, the consequences of the death of Heinrich were horrifying: as a retaliation, the whole village of Lidice was destroyed.
12. Abraham Lincoln
Five days after the end of the Civil War (the capitulation of the Confederate States of America) in a play at the Ford Theater, the supporter of southerners actor John Wilks Booth broke into the presidential box and shot Lincoln in the head. The next morning, without regaining consciousness, Abraham Lincoln passed away. Obviously, the president had enemies, and not one ... But still his assassination shocked the inhabitants of America.
13. Alexander II
Known as the Liberator (in connection with the abolition of serfdom), he died as a result of a terrorist act planned by the secret revolutionary organization Narodnaya Volya. On a Sunday afternoon, when the Emperor returned after the military divorce, Ignaty Grinevitsky threw a bomb under his feet. As a result of the second accurate throw, Alexander II died.
14. Harvey Milk
The first non-hiding politician in California, Harvey was elected to the state post as a member of the San Francisco City Council of Supervision and served for 11 months before being killed by former employee Dan White. 5 bullets hit the body of Milk: 1 - in the wrist (the man covered his face from the shots), 2 deadly - in the chest and 2 - in the head (White fired the last shots on the already lying on the floor in a pool of blood Harvey).
15. Anwar Sadat
The third president of Egypt was not respected by the Islamists after the signing of the Sinai agreement with Israel. Obviously, this is what caused the attack on Sadat during the annual victory parade held in Cairo.
16. Henry IV
Repeated attempts were committed on the King of France Henry IV, despite his positive reputation - people called him "Good King Henry." But one day the luck left the ruler, and on a narrow Parisian street he was killed by a Catholic fanatic Francois Ravallac, who inflicted 3 stab wounds. François himself was in for a terrible fate - he was cheated as a punishment.
17. Malcolm X
Contradictory views on the life of Malcolm X inflicted irritation even among his followers. Attacked him members of the organization "Nation of Islam", in which he was. He was named one of the most influential African-Americans in history.
18. Philip II of Macedonia
Alexander the Great's father, Philip, was killed by one of his guard during his daughter's wedding ceremony. The other three guards immediately executed the killer.
19. King KS Feysal ibn Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
King Faisal welcomed his nephew, Prince Faisal ben Musadeh, who returned to Saudi Arabia from America, but it was at the moment of embrace that the prince took out his pistol and twice shot his uncle in the head, after which he himself was beheaded.
20. John Lennon
Lennon was killed by four shots in the back while walking with Yoko Ono in downtown New York. Shortly before this, John signed on the cover of the new album to his murderer - Mark David Chapman.
21. Yitzhak Rabin
The 5th Prime Minister of Israel was killed by a terrorist who was against the signing of peaceful "agreements in Oslo" by Rabin.
22. Guy Julius Caesar
In Rome there was a conspiracy among the Roman nobles, dissatisfied with the sovereignty of Caesar and the fearful rumors about the future naming of his king. One of the inspirers of the conspiracy is Mark Junius Brutus. During the attack, Caesar fought back, but when he saw Mark Brutus, then, according to legend, he said: "And you, my child!". A total of 23 wounds were found on Caesar's body.
23. Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi was the embodiment of peaceful resistance, his legacy is difficult to surpass. However, not all were his supporters. As a result of the branched out conspiracy of Hindu extremists, Gandhi was killed. The attacker jumped out of the crowd directly opposite Gandhi and made three shots from the pistol.
24. Franz Ferdinand
The murder of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, the Serbian student Gavriloy Princip, who was a member of the secret organization Mlada Bosna, was a formal occasion for the outbreak of the First World War.
25. Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King was killed by a single shot from a rifle, an hour later the black man in the US died in the hospital. A few days after his death, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Only a few can be put on a par with Martin King and what he did for ordinary people.