July 9, 2012 • 30m
Munich 1934: The Night of The Long Knives Flying into Munich in the early hours of 20th June 1934, Adolf Hitler, then Chancellor ...Read more
July 9, 2012 • 30m
London, 1974 As the Queen"s daughter travelled from Buckingham Palace along the Mall, she was attacked by a gunman who fired six ...Read more
July 9, 2012 • 30m
New York, 1980 On 8th December 1980, outside the Dakota Building, the 40 year-old Beatle was shot dead by Mark David Chapman, a y...Read more
July 9, 2012 • 30m
Ireland, 1979 The former Viceroy of India and cousin of the Queen, Lord Mountbatten was a World War II naval hero, Allied Command...Read more
July 9, 2012 • 30m
Russia, 1940 On 20 August 1940, the exiled Bolshevik leader was assassinated with an ice-pick by Ramon Mercader, who was undoubte...Read more
July 9, 2012 • 30m
Rome, 1981 On 13 May 1981, in front of a crowd of 20,000 people in St Peter''s Square, a young Turkish gunman shot the Polish Pop...Read more
July 16, 2012 • 30m
Gibraltar, 1943 On 4th July, 1943, General Wladyslaw Eugeniusz Sikorski, Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Army, was flying to the...Read more
July 16, 2012 • 30m
Buffalo, New York, 1901 On 6th September 1901, whilst opening an expedition, President McKinley was shot by Polish anarchist, Leo...Read more
July 16, 2012 • 30m
On the morning of 10th June 1942, whilst driving his open-top Mercedes to his office, Hitler"s effective deputy and architect of t...Read more
July 16, 2012 • 30m
On 4th November 1995, as he was about to address a mass rally of his supporters celebrating the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Accord, ...Read more
July 16, 2012 • 30m
On August 17 1988, en route for a military base in Northern Pakistan, Pakistan's pro-military strongman was brought down by a bomb...Read more
July 16, 2012 • 30m
Cape Town, 1966 On 6 September 1966, seven minutes after taking his seat in the House of Assembly, South African Prime Minister D...Read more
July 23, 2012 • 30m
India, 1984 & 1989 Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, was assassinated on 31st October 1984 by her Sikh bodyguards as she wa...Read more
July 23, 2012 • 30m
Bolivia, 1967 Born to a middle-class Argentine family, Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara became an icon for revolution and rebellious youth...Read more
July 23, 2012 • 30m
Cairo, 1981 On 6 October 1981, wearing a black ceremonial uniform at a military parade, the Egyptian President was shot down by f...Read more
July 23, 2012 • 30m
Washington, 1981 On 30th March 1981, as US President Ronald Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel, 25-year-old John Hinc...Read more
July 23, 2012 • 30m
Eire, 1922 One of the most charismatic leaders in the struggle for Irish independence from British rule, Michael Collins came to ...Read more
July 23, 2012 • 30m
France, 1961: The Day of the Jackal There were three attempts to kill General de Gaulle, all of which were unsuccessful. The firs...Read more
July 23, 2012 • 30m
Rastenburg, 1944 Although there had been two previous attempts to kill Hitler, including poisoning a bottle of Cointreau on his a...Read more
July 30, 2012 • 30m
Los Angeles, 1968 On 6th June 1968, hours after winning the Californian Democratic Primary election, Senator Robert Kennedy was s...Read more
July 30, 2012 • 30m
New Delhi, 1948 India''s greatest founding father was a champion of peaceful protest, yet ironically he was gunned down for no cl...Read more
July 30, 2012 • 30m
Memphis, 1968 After leading mass protests in Birmingham Alabama and his "I have a dream" speech, Martin Luther King took on the c...Read more
July 30, 2012 • 30m
Yekaterinburg, 1918 After a disastrous war with Germany, the Bolsheviks imprisoned the Romanov family as their supporters approac...Read more
July 30, 2012 • 30m
Marseille, 1934 On 9th October 1934, just after King Alexander of Yugoslavia had arrived in the cruiser Dubrovnik for a State vis...Read more
July 30, 2012 • 30m
Sarajevo, 1914 A group of Serbian nationalists were determined to kill the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Two of the assass...Read more
July 30, 2012 • 30m
Dallas, 1963 By 22 November 1963, the date of his assassination, President Kennedy had made many enemies. He had declared war on ...Read more