An assassination may be prompted by religious, ideological, political, or military motives ; it may be carried out for the prospect of financial gain, to avenge a grievance, from the desire to acquire fame or notoriety ( that is, a psychological need to garner personal public recognition ), from the wish to form some kind of " relationship " with a public figure, or from the desire ( or at least the willingness ) to be killed or commit suicide in the act.

In the United States, the assassination of President Garfield in 1881 prompted the replacement of the American Spoils System with a meritocracy.

This assassination attempt prompted Amin to conspire against Taraki, and when Taraki returned from a trip to Havana, he was ousted, and later suffocated on Amin's orders.

The assassination of New Democracy member of parliament Pavlos Bakoyannis in September 1989 prompted public outrage, including among Greek communists who respected Bakoyannis as a courageous anti-Junta journalist.

The Berkman assassination attempt undermined public support for the union and prompted the final collapse of the strike.

During his life, Romero had been an advocate of civil rights, often denouncing violations of these rights in public, which prompted his assassination during a mass.

Al-Hadi died in 786. al-Tabari notes varying accounts of this death, e. g. an abdominal ulcer or assassination prompted by al-Hadi's own step-mother.

The assassination of Benigno " Ninoy " Aquino, Jr. in August 1983 prompted Salonga to return to the Philippines on January 21, 1985 to help resuscitate his party and unite democratic opposition.

Her success prompted jealousies, however and in 1894 there was rumored to be an assassination plot in the works by some of her rivals.

Their interracial relationship prompted a white supremacist organization to target Young unsuccessfully for assassination, although both President Bartlet and Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman were badly wounded in the shooting.

The assassination prompted a large-scale wave of anti-Jewish riots, called pogroms throughout 1881-1884.

Since the 1981 assassination of Anwar Sadat and consequential inauguration of Hosni Mubarak as the President, the Egyptian economy has endured three decades of economic stagnation that has prompted a significant number of Egyptians to emigrate to more prosperous countries, such as the United States.

Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

* 1974 – Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee.

As Vice President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following his assassination.

The President also reassured many by his decisiveness in ordering the establishment of a military commission on May 1, 1865 to try the surviving conspirators involved in Lincoln's assassination.

After John Hinckley's attempted assassination of U. S. President Ronald Reagan, first lady Nancy Reagan commissioned astrologer Joan Quigley to act as the secret White House astrologer.

After the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, Mrs Kennedy remembered the eternal flame at the Arc de Triomphe and requested that an eternal flame be placed next to her husband's grave at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Abraham Lincoln assassination | Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln ; 1865 depiction.

President John F. Kennedy | Kennedy minutes before his assassination, November 22, 1963.

In 1986, U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( who survived an assassination attempt himself ) ordered the Operation El Dorado Canyon air raid on Libya in which one of the primary targets was the home residence of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

In the Philippines, the assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr. triggered the eventual downfall of the 20-year autocratic rule of President Ferdinand Marcos.

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth is dramatized.

Belief in conspiracy theories has become a topic of interest for sociologists, psychologists and experts in folklore since at least the 1960s, when the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy eventually provoked an unprecedented public response directed against the official version of the case as expounded in the Report of the Warren Commission.

These novels tell the story of a U. S. President who approves the assassination of the leader of an oil-rich Arab nation who has acquired nuclear arms and intends to pass them onto a terrorist organization.

In 2004, President Chen Shui-bian was re-elected by a narrow margin following a controversial assassination attempt on him and the Vice President Annette Lu only hours before the election.

* 2003 – President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.

The fourth president was Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, the President of Egypt since October 14, 1981, following the assassination of former President Mohammed Anwar El-Sadat.

Francisco Indalecio Madero González ( 30 October 1873 – 22 February 1913 ) was a Mexican statesman, writer and revolutionary who served as 33rd President of Mexico from 1911 until his assassination in 1913.

* 1999 – In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov.

The 2006 film The Death of a President was filmed in the style of a television documentary, filmed years after the event, to tell the story of the fictional assassination of U. S. President George W. Bush, and the aftermath, to realistic effect.

However, despite these laws, East Timor has many problems with illegally armed militias, including widespread violence in 2006 which resulted in over 100, 000 people being forced from their homes, as well as two separate assassination attempts on the Prime Minister and President in early 2008.

After Sudanese intelligence services were implicated in an assassination attempt on the President of Egypt, UN economic sanctions were imposed on Sudan, a very poor country, and Turabi fell from favor.

After the perpetrator of President Reagan's assassination attempt was found not guilty by reason of insanity, Congress passed the Insanity Defense Reform Act of 1984.

** The assassination of German politician Matthias Erzberger causes the government to declare martial law.

Following the assassination of the British Ambassador to Ireland, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) on 23 July 1976 the government announced its intention to declare a state of emergency.

Because the peace was considered Sadat's personal peace — not Egypt's — and because the traitor had now paid with his life, Hosni Mubarak, Sadat's successor, was able to declare in a televised speech several hours after the assassination that " all treaties and charters " would be honored.

Although the opposition campaign was hurt by the desire of the Mexican electorate for stability, following the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio, the intended PRI candidate, and the recent outbreak of hostilities in the state of Chiapas, Zedillo's share of the vote was the lowest official percentage for any PRI presidential candidate up to that time.

Milošević didn't respond to the platform considering it unconstitutional as political relations within the federal state got strained to a maximum especially against the backdrop of the assassination wave of figures from top political, criminal, and state business circles in both republics ( Željko " Arkan " Ražnatović, Pavle Bulatović, Žika Petrović, and Goran Žugić as well two attempts on the life of opposition politician Vuk Drašković ).

In addition to the People's Army, the Department of General Intelligence ( Mukhabarat ) was the most notorious arm of the state security system, feared for its use of torture and assassination.

Therefore, the Ryan Doctrine supersedes the executive order put in place by President Ford, which forbids the assassination of foreign heads of state.

* 29 August 1995 – Eduard Shevardnadze, the Georgian head of state, survives an assassination attempt in Tbilisi.

* 9 February 1998 – Eduard Shevardnadze, the Georgian head of state, survives an assassination attempt in Tbilisi.

* 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.

* August 29 – Eduard Shevardnadze, the Georgian head of state, survives an assassination attempt in Tbilisi.

* The Xianbei / Tibetan state of Tuyuhun is invaded by Tang Dynasty China during Emperor Taizong's campaign against Tuyuhun, led by commander Li Jing, resulting in the assassination of their leader ( Busabuo Khan Murong Fuyun ) in 635 and the dissolving of their state in 672.

Tacitus writes that after Julius Caesar's assassination, a temple in honour of Isis had been decreed ; Augustus suspended this, and tried to turn Romans back to the Roman deities who were closely associated with the state.

After the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., he introduced a bill aimed at making King's birthday a state holiday ; it was tabled and later vetoed.

The first instance of assassination in the effort to establish an Nizari Ismaili state in Persia is widely considered to be the murder of Seljuq vizier, Nizam al-Mulk.

After the assassination attempt, and at the marquise de Pompadour's instigation, the king dismissed two ministers: the comte d ' Argenson, secretary of state for war, and Machault d ' Arnouville, keeper of the seals ( justice minister ) and before that controller-general of finances ; and he called Choiseul to the government.

Glenn resigned from NASA six weeks after the assassination of John F. Kennedy to run for office in his home state of Ohio.

This was portrayed in the media as allowing participants to profit from the assassination of heads of state and acts of terrorism due to such events being mentioned on illustrative sample screens showing the interface.

At Chenonceau Louise was told of her husband's assassination in 1589 and she fell into a state of depression, spending the remainder of her days wandering aimlessly along the château's corridors dressed in mourning clothes amidst somber black tapestries stitched with skulls and crossbones.

The accident was claimed by the PAN as a state assassination since then.

He joined the Louisiana Bureau of Investigations under Governor Huey Pierce Long, Jr. On the night of Long's assassination on September 8, 1935, he transported the governor to the hospital in Baton Rouge, only to be told that he should return to the state capitol to find out who had shot him.

Goldman herself didn't oppose tactics like assassination in her early career, but changed her views after she went to Russia, where she witnessed the violence of the Russian state and the Red Army.

An assassination attempt on the diwan by the Communists on the July 25, 1947 caused to hasten the accession of Travancore state to the Indian Union.

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.

" At a 1999 press conference following the verdict, Coretta Scott King stated that " there is abundant evidence of a major high level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband, Martin Luther King, Jr ... the conspiracy of the Mafia, local, state and federal government agencies, were deeply involved in the assassination of my husband.