* 2002 – French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.

* I as in Icarus is a 1979 French conspiracy thriller with Yves Montand as an attorney investigating the assassination of the President.

* August 22 – A failed assassination attempt is made against French President Charles De Gaulle.

* Eight are killed and 142 wounded in Paris in a failed assassination attempt on Napoleon III, Emperor of the French ( 1858 ).

By acts of sabotage and assassination in both metropolitan France and French Algerian territories, the OAS attempted to prevent Algerian independence.

Franckel and Moro-Giafferi, however, took the view that if Grynszpan was allowed to claim that he had shot vom Rath with such a motive, this would result in his certain conviction and possibly take him to the guillotine ( despite his being a minor ), since French law took a severe view of political assassination.

Also, as a British consul in Algiers in 1961 ( before the French withdrawal ), he had been a potential target for assassination by diehard French colonialists.

He foils an assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander I of Russia and is influential in the monarch's decision to resist the French invasion of the Russian Empire.

Mesrine's former defense attorney, Maître Malinbaum, continued for 30 years to fight for a judicial investigation into the events surrounding Mesrine's death at Porte de Clignancourt and to have the French state held accountable for what she saw as the assassination of her client.

In the French novel, Les Rivières Pourpres, the protagonist, Niémans, is implicated in Mesrine's assassination.

The libretto is loosely based on an 1833 play, Gustave III, by French playwright Eugène Scribe who wrote about the historical assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden.

Stresemann's sudden and premature death, as well as the death of his " pragmatic moderate " French counterpart Aristide Briand in 1932, and the assassination of Briand's successor Louis Barthou in 1934, left a vacuum in European statesmanship that further tilted the slippery slope towards World War II.

Suspects could now be interned under DORA 14B on warrants signed by the Chief Secretary and French pressed Macpherson, who had been shocked by the attempted assassination, to intern as many as possible, although he advised against interning politicians like Arthur Griffith “ simply for making seditious speeches ”.

On the day of the assassination, the Jackal, disguised as a one-legged French war veteran, passes through the police checkpoints, carrying his custom rifle concealed in the sections of a crutch.

The French socialists were strongly anti-war, but following the assassination of Jaurès in 1914 they were unable to resist the wave of militarism which followed the outbreak of World War I.

After the assassination of Prime Minister Armand Călinescu on 21 September King Carol II tried to maintain neutrality for several months more, but the surrender of the Third French Republic and the retreat of British forces from continental Europe rendered the assurances that both countries had made to Romania meaningless.

A more recent French probe, with a team of French investigators and two French judges concluded, in a January 2012 report, that the missiles could not have come from a military base occupied by Kagame supporters, and appears to exonerate Kagame's role in the assassination.

Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne ( 26 March 1554 – 3 October 1611 ), or Charles de Guise, was a French nobleman of the house of Guise and a military leader of the Catholic League, which he headed during the French Wars of Religion, following the assassination of his brothers at Blois in 1588.

In the interview, David says he was approached to become one of three French criminals hired to carry out the assassination of Kennedy, but that he refused.

David claimed that deceased French mobster Lucien Sarti was one of the men who carried out the assassination.

Dollfuss escaped an assassination attempt in October 1933 by Rudolf Dertill, a 22-year old who had been ejected from the military for his national socialist views.

* October Revolution in Russia results in the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state ; political upheaval in Russia culminating in the establishment of the Russian SFSR and the assassination of Emperor Nicholas II and the royal family.

However, two assassination attempts on the Kaiser in the following year provided Bismarck with a pretext for introducing a law banning all socialist organizations, assemblies, and publications.

Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, the SPD — like other socialist parties in Europe — organized anti-war demonstrations during the July Crisis.

Lane's side of the story is that a few weeks after the last comment Kilgallen published about the assassination ( an item in her September 3, 1965 Voice of Broadway column about Marina Oswald Porter and her incriminating photograph of Lee holding a rifle and socialist literature ), Kilgallen told him by phone that she planned to visit Dallas again.

In November 1920, after the assassination of Giordana ( a right-wing municipal counsellor in Bologna ), the Blackshirts were used as a repression tool by the state to crush the socialist movement ( which included a strong anarcho-syndicalist component ), especially in the Po Valley.

Raoul Villain ( 1885 – 1936 ) was a French nationalist primarily remembered for his assassination of the French socialist leader Jean Jaurès on July 31, 1914 in Paris.

Cools ( 1 August 1927 – 18 July 1991 ) was a Belgian socialist politician who died by assassination.

A local first was established in June 1894, when Adevărul hosted the first foreign correspondence article received by a Romanian periodical: a telegram sent by the French socialist newspaperman Victor Jaclard, discussing the assassination of Marie François Sadi Carnot and the accession of Jean Casimir-Perier to the office of President.

The assassination of the Confederate president Wade Hampton V, a Whig, by Freedom party member Grady Calkins led to a mass exodus of Freedom Party members and evoked the pity of the USA's socialist administration.

Although rightists were also responsible for the assassination of socialist leader Asanuma Inejiro in 1960 and an attempt on the life of former prime minister Ohira Masayoshi in 1978, most of them, unlike their prewar counterparts, largely kept to noisy street demonstrations, especially harassment campaigns aimed at conventions of the leftist Japan Teachers Union.

Valerie Jean Solanas ( April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988 ) was an American radical feminist writer who is best known for her assassination attempt on artist Andy Warhol.

Jean Bastien-Thiry, who had attempted the Petit-Clamart assassination on de Gaulle, but was not formally a member of the OAS, was also executed on 11 March 1963.

The film is sympathetic towards the left wing revolutionaries and strongly critical of the U. S .- supported death squads, focusing on their murder of four American churchwomen, including Jean Donovan, and their assassination of Archbishop Óscar Romero.

After his assassination in Cairo in 1800, the embalmed body of general Jean Baptiste Kléber was repatriated to France.

Norma Jean Lollis Hill ( February 11, 1931 – November 7, 2000 ) was a witness to the assassination of U. S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.

This assassination ended careers of the Bouches-du-Rhone prefect Pierre Jouhannaud and the director of the Surete Nationale, Jean Berthoin.

The assassination of Sigebert by Jean Fouquet, from the fifteenth century Grandes Chroniques de France.

The location was about 20 feet northeast from close assassination witnesses Jean Hill, and Mary Moorman, as the limousine rounded the 120-degree slow turn from Houston Street onto Elm Street.

* Jean Bastien-Thiry, leader of 1962 assassination attempt against Charles de Gaulle.

However he must have returned to Milan, since he is listed along with Jean Japart, Colinet de Lannoy, and Loyset Compère, to be given a safe pass for exit from Milan on 6 February 1477, following the 1476 assassination of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza.

Some of the assassination witnesses who present their observations on-camera include Abraham Zapruder, James Tague, Charles Brehm, Mary Moorman, Jean Hill, Lee Bowers, Sam Holland, James Simmons, Richard Dodd, Jessie Price, Orville Nix, Patrick Dean, Napoleon Daniels, Nancy Hamilton, Joseph Johnson, Roy Jones, and Cecil McWatters.

Former Triple A member José María Boccardo also participated with Jean Pierre Cherid and others in the 1978 assassination of Argala, the etarra who had participated in the 1973 assassination of Franco's Prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco.

A Jesuit residing at Port Said, Jean Verzaeu, wrote on 20 October 1700 that the kingdom and Ethiopia were at war over the assassination of a Sennar national in Ethiopia, and that the trade route between the two countries was closed.

It finally ended its broadcast three years after the assassination of Jean Dominique.