Assassinations of World Leaders

Here is a list of  a few unsolved assassinations of world leaders:

1. Abraham Lincoln: Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
   
   
2. Mahatma Gandhi: Gandhi, an Indian independence activist, was assassinated on January 30, 1948, by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist.
   
   
3. John F. Kennedy: Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on November 22, 1963, while riding in a motorcade through Dallas, Texas.
   
   
4. Martin Luther King Jr.: King, a civil rights leader, was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.
   
   
5. Anwar Sadat: Sadat, the President of Egypt, was assassinated on October 6, 1981, by members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad while reviewing a military parade.
   
   
6. Indira Gandhi: Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, was assassinated on October 31, 1984, by two of her bodyguards.
   
   
7. Benazir Bhutto: Bhutto, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated on December 27, 2007, while campaigning for the 2008 general election.
   
   
8. John F. Kennedy Jr.: Kennedy Jr., the son of President John F. Kennedy, was killed in a plane crash on July 16, 1999, along with his wife and sister-in-law.
   
   
9. Alexander Litvinenko: Litvinenko, a Russian former Federal Security Service officer, was poisoned with polonium-210 on November 1, 2006, and died three weeks later.
   
   
10. Yitzhak Rabin: Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel, was assassinated on November 4, 1995, by Yigal Amir, a radical right-wing Israeli student.
    
    
11. Julius Caesar: Caesar, the Roman general and statesman, was assassinated on the Ides of March (March 15) in 44 BCE by a group of senators who were opposed to his rule.
    
    
12. Archduke Franz Ferdinand: Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Young Bosnia movement. This assassination is widely seen as the event that sparked World War I.
    
    
13. Mahatma Gandhi: Gandhi, an Indian independence activist, was assassinated on January 30, 1948, by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist.
    
    
14. Rafael Trujillo: Trujillo, the dictator of the Dominican Republic, was assassinated on May 30, 1961, by a group of rebels.
    
    
15. Olof Palme: Palme, the Prime Minister of Sweden, was assassinated on February 28, 1986, while walking home from a cinema with his wife in Stockholm. The investigation into his assassination has been long and complex, and the perpetrator has never been identified.
    
    
16. Patrice Lumumba: Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was assassinated on January 17, 1961, by a group of soldiers.
    
    
17. Salvador Allende: Allende, the President of Chile, was killed in a military coup on September 11, 1973. The circumstances surrounding his death are still a matter of controversy.
    
    
18. Archbishop Oscar Romero: Romero, the Archbishop of San Salvador, was assassinated on March 24, 1980, while celebrating mass. He was a vocal critic of the government and human rights abuses in El Salvador, and his assassination is thought to have been politically motivated.
    
    
19. Benigno Aquino Jr.: Aquino, the opposition leader in the Philippines, was assassinated on August 21, 1983, while returning to the Philippines from exile. His assassination is thought to have been politically motivated.
    
    
20. Anna Politkovskaya: Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist and human rights activist, was assassinated on October 7, 2006, in Moscow. The investigation into her assassination has been marred by controversy, and the perpetrators have not been brought to justice.