More recently, former businessman John Perkins alleged in his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man that Torrijos was assassinated by American interests, who had had a bomb planted aboard his aircraft (by CIA organized operatives).
Warlords, the Taliban and rival candidates were blamed for the intimidation and already at least eight people had been assassinated in relation to the upcoming elections, including three candidates.
Hе was assassinated in 1897 near Radilovo while traveling to Peshtera, most likely by mistake with the intended target being his friend (a local politician), with whom he had changed places in their coach shortly before the fatal shot.
His mother was one of the daughters of Sancho de Castilla y Lasso de Castilla, 9th Señor de Gor, province of Granada, señor de Alboloduy, province of Almeria, and Herrera de Valdecañas, province of Palencia, an illegitimate descent of King Pedro I of Castile, (assassinated by his bastard brother Enrique, afterwards King Enrique II of Castile in Montiel in March 1369).
His parents, Álvaro Obregón Salido and María Tapia Monteverde, were prominent in the nation's history, with his father remembered as one of Mexico's most renowned personalities of the Revolution, who led the country as president from December 1920 to November 1924 and won another term in 1928, but was assassinated immediately thereafter.
He was hurriedly buried in the churchyard, after which Aguinaldo relieved Luna's officers and men from the field, including General Venacio Concepción, whose headquarters in Angeles, Pampanga, Aguinaldo besieged the same day Luna was assassinated.
On April 15, 1410, in Gien, during the nuptials of Charles, Duke of Orléans, the son of the assassinated duke, and Bonne of Armagnac, the powerful men of the kingdom present joined forces against the Duke of Burgundy.
Eventually, Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos and his son and co-ruler Michael IX had the Catalan leader, Roger de Flor, assassinated with his entourage in April 1305.
Mohammad Beheshti, one of the main architects of Iranian Islamic Revolution and the constitution of the Islamic Republic in Iran who was assassinated in 1981
Hortensia Bussi (1914-2009), widow of assassinated Chilean President Salvador Allende and political exilee
Stanfield paid tribute to Robert F. Kennedy, who had been assassinated only three days earlier.
The city takes its name as a tribute to the assassinated French President Sadi Carnot.
The deaths remain unsolved but later reports claim that they were assassinated in a state-sponsored operation by agents from East Germany.
Lausic Glasinovic remained in Chile after the September 11, 1973 Chilean coup even though many of his comrades had been assassinated or had been subject to forced disappearances.
Çetin Emeç was assassinated in the morning of March 7, 1990 in front of his home in Suadiye, Istanbul as he got in his car to go to his office.
She was assassinated along with her husband by the Soviet Red Army during its invasion of Germany during World War II.
In 2003, Judge Claudy Gassant requested that Toussaint's immunity from prosecution be lifted in regards to the assassination of Haitian journalist Jean Dominique who had accused Toussaint of having his rival for the position of Secretary of State for Public Security, Jean Lamy, assassinated.
Within days, however, he had been assassinated by agents of his Saxon opposition in Pöhlde.
Two of his sons Miguel Enríquez, and Edgardo Enriquez along with his ex-son in law Bautista van Schouwen (all three leading members of the MIR) were assassinated in the first period of the Pinochet dictatorship.
In 645 he ascended to the throne two days after Prince Naka no Ōe (Emperor Tenji) assassinated Soga no Iruka in the court of Kōgyoku.
With much internal troubles, Ashina Duobi was unable to aid Liang, and later in 628, with Emperor Taizong's brother-in-law Chai Shao (柴紹) sieging Liang's capital Shuofang (朔方, in modern Yulin, Shaanxi), Liang Shidu's cousin Liang Luoren (梁洛仁) assassinated Liang Shidu and surrendered, ending the final rival claim to Emperor Taizong's for China's imperial throne.
Paul records that it was around this time, when Sigebert I of Austrasia was assassinated by Chilperic I of Neustria (584), that Euin married a daughter of Garibald I, whom Paul refers to as "king of the Bavarians".
He assassinated Gebuldo and Aresindo, sons of Olmundo, who claimed descent from King Witiza, and thus further alienated the nobility.
His early work focused on images of the Mexican television host Raul Velasco and assassinated presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio.
His daughter, Theodora, married Pandulf (or Landulf), lord of Capaccio (1040–1052), son of Guaimar III of Salerno and Gaitelgrima and brother of Guaimar IV, with whom he was assassinated.
After a heated campaign a mere days before the election, Fortuyn was assassinated in Hilversum.
Ilija Stanić (born 19 October 1945 in Colopeci near Konjic, Yugoslavia) was an agent of UDBA Yugoslav secret police, who is believed to have assassinated Vjekoslav Luburić, a Croatian Ustasha General responsible for war crimes in Jasenovac concentration camp during World War II.
When President Kennedy was assassinated, the Journal set records for evening readership with its Extra editions that kept locals updated about the tragedy.
Jacob Israël de Haan (1881–1924), Dutch-Jewish novelist, poet, journalist, diplomat and legal scholar who was assassinated in Palestine
Jean-Pierre "Maïon" was assassinated on June 13, 1982 at Argent-sur-Sauldre, in the Cher province, soon after being free from prison.
They accused him of corresponding with John Welsh, sponsoring the uprising at Bothwell Bridge, and of paying to have the Duke of Lauderdale assassinated.
During a public manifestation of liberal students who were commemorating the liberal revolution in France which had deposed King Charles X, he was assassinated.
A member of his Gudfiyya brotherhood in 1905 may have assassinated Xavier Coppolani, who was leading the French conquest of Mauritania, thereby delaying the conquest of the emirate of Adrar for a few years.
Only a few days after the closure of the congress, on June 28, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary's crownprince and his wife Sophie (Marie Henrieta's cousin) were Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Saraevo.
Mario Amato (24 November 1937, in Palermo – 23 June 1980, in Rome) was an Italian magistrate, assassinated in 1980 by NAR (Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari) members Gilberto Cavallini and Luigi Ciavardini.
A film biography of An Jung-geun, a Korean independence activist who assassinated Itō Hirobumi, the first Prime Minister of Japan.
Hours before "Night Call" was to air though, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
On November 22, 1963, Congressman Roberts was in the Dallas motorcade when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Bertram of St. Genesius, Patriarch of Aquileia, assassinated during an ambush at San Giorgio della Richinvelda on June 6, 1350.
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Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician, sociologist, author and professor, assassinated durng the Dutch general election of 2002, buried in the cemetery of the frazione Provesano.
Count García Sánchez of Castile (1009-1028), their son, the last independent Count of Castile, assassinated in Zamora
He was assassinated in Peñalén, whence his nickname, by a conspiracy headed by his brother Ramón (el Fratricida, the Fratricide) and his sister Ermesinda.
He died at Langhirano in the vicinity of Parma in obscure circumstances: he may simply have been the loser in a brawl (he was famously ill-tempered and violent), or he may have been assassinated by an agent of the Visconti.
Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour, (1792–1857) Catholic Archbishop of Paris, assassinated by a priest
When Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated and activists stormed Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Silas and Judith joined a Seattle draft resistance group.
Cross-border marriages have been common and there are several American Civil War veterans buried in the St. Stephen cemetery, including a Medal of Honor recipient as well as Brigadier-General John Curtis Caldwell who was one of the eight generals to accompany the body of assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on its journey from Washington D.C. to Lincoln's home in Springfield, Illinois.
Sten Forshufvud (1903-1985) was a Swedish dentist and physician, Napoleonican, and amateur toxicologist (expert on poisons) who formulated and supported the controversial theory that Napoleon was assassinated by a member of his entourage while in exile.
The play is based on the true story of a group of Russian Socialist-Revolutionaries who assassinated the Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich in 1905, and explores the moral issues associated with murder and terrorism.
On January 2011, Diplomatic cables from 2005 and 2006 released by Wikileaks in the United States diplomatic cables leak, revealed that Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernández suspected Bacellar had been assassinated by a group of contras led by Guy Philippe, a former soldier and police chief and an Haitian anti-Aristide "rebel" leader that had been armed by the USA.
On June 17, 1911, Vanchi who was just 25 assassinated Ashe, the district collector of Tirunelveli, who was also known as Collector Dorai.