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.

The assassination prompted President Figueroa Alcorta to declare a state of siege and pass the Social Defense Law, which allowed the deportation of anarchist " agitators ".

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.

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.

In 1948, in the aftermath of the assassination of the populist politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, there occurred a decade of large-scale political violence throughout Colombia, which was a Conservative – Liberal civil war that killed more than 300, 000 people.

Supplements and magazines produced during this era detailed the progression of the Rebellion from the initial assassination of the Emperor in 1116 to the collapse of large-scale interstellar trade in roughly 1124 ( the beginning of the supplement Hard Times ).

A large-scale wave of anti-Jewish pogroms swept Ukraine in 1881, after Jews were wrongly blamed for the assassination of Alexander II.

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 ).

" The wave of national grief following the assassination gave enormous momentum to Johnson's promise to carry out Kennedy's programs.

The biggest wave came in April 1968, when riots occurred in over a hundred cities in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King.

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.

Many political observers have ascribed the landslide victory to the anti-incumbent wave arising out of the assassination of the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi by suspected Tamil separatists fighting for a homeland in neighbouring Sri Lanka.

Buddhist records such as the Asokavadana write that the assassination of Brhadrata and the rise of the Sunga empire led to a wave of persecution for Buddhists, and a resurgence of Hinduism.

Following this event, along with the assassination attempt on Lenin by Fanya Kaplan on August 28, the Bolsheviks began a wave of persecution known as the Red Terror.

In an interview with Barbara Frum of the CBC radio program As It Happens immediately after Lynette Fromme's attempted assassination of Gerald Ford, Good promised " a wave of assassins " to kill people responsible for the killing of trees.

Five days of race riots erupted in Washington, D. C. following the April 4, 1968 assassination of Civil Rights Movement-leader Martin Luther King, Jr. A wave of civil disorder affected at least 110 U. S. cities ; Washington, along with Chicago and Baltimore, were among the most affected.

This wave of bombings began with the assassination attempt of Mr. Marwan Hmade, then heated up with the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri on February 14, 2005, which touched off the Cedar Revolution and the withdrawal of Syrian troops.

Rumors arose that Jews were behind the assassination, and anti-Jewish riots broke out in the late spring of 1881, starting in Podolia and spreading across the Pale of Settlement.

What seemed, for a time, a boundless future in Russia was cut short by the anti-Jewish reaction following the assassination of Tsar Alexander II ; Yiddish theatre was banned, under an order effective September 14, 1883.

Starting with the state-sponsored massive anti-Jewish pogroms following the assassination of Tsar Alexander II and continuing with the Dreyfus Affair in France in 1894, Jews were profoundly shocked to see the continuing extent of anti-Semitism from Russia to France, a country which they thought of as the home of enlightenment and liberty.

* unrest in African-American communities, such as the 1968 riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr ..

* King assassination riots: 125 cities in April and May, in response to the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. including:

However, during the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in the spring of 1968, Agnew angered many African American leaders when he stated in reference to their constituents, " I call on you to publicly repudiate all black racists.

The classic " use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved " line delivered by a police dispatcher is an obvious homage to Daley's 1968 order during the riots following Martin Luther King's assassination.

The convention was held during a year of violence, political turbulence, and civil unrest, particularly riots in more than 100 cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4.

Despair after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in April 1968 contributed to riots in North Omaha, including one at the Logan Fontenelle Housing Project.

After the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1968, riots broke out in the District, primarily in the U Street, 14th Street, 7th Street, and H Street corridors, centers of black residential and commercial areas.

* 31 October-3 November An estimated 2, 700-10, 000 Sikhs killed during the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi and other areas ; mobs loot and damage several Sikh homes, businesses and Gurdwaras in response to the assassination of Indira Gandhi

He later went to WRC-TV in Washington, DC, and stayed for three years, winning six journalism awards for coverage of civil-rights events such as the riots that followed the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The community escaped the riots that devastated the West Side after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968.

During the riots in the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination, the " Stones " were credited with preserving and protecting the Woodlawn neighborhood ( albeit through extortion and intimidation ), which saw minimal disturbance in contrast with neighborhoods like Garfield Park and the West Side.

A subplot involves Eddie recalling his time as a young man in the late 1960s, when he first started working at the shop with Calvin's father, including the riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Also, Eddie remembers his long-lost love ( Garcelle Beauvais ).

Events involving the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and riots was how he first started working at the barbershop, and thinking about a past lover.

While riots did follow the assassination, the two sides of the negotiation process were galvanised into action, and they soon agreed that democratic elections should take place on 27 April 1994, just over a year after Hani's assassination.

The publication in Athens of the news of the attempted assassination led to outbreaks of serious riots against real and supposed partisans of ex-King Constantine.

The Act was signed into law during the King assassination riots by President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had previously signed the landmark Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law.

His presidency was marked by Operation Blue Star, the assassination of Indira Gandhi, and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

After the 1968 riots due to Martin Luther King, Jr .' s assassination, many Chinese people sought a more economically stable and safe environment and moved out of Washington, D. C .' s Chinatown, relocating to suburban neighborhoods in Fairfax County, Virginia, and Montgomery County, Maryland.

The confusion and anger triggered by Gaitán's assassination provoked the Bogotazo a massive riots that extended throughout the Colombian capital Bogotá and extended later to the rest of the country to generate a ten year period of violence known as La Violencia.

The convention, held at Ottawa's Civic Centre, took place in the shadow of the assassination of Martin Luther King and the riots that followed in the United States.

Soon afterward, he was faced with the riots in the District that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968.

Singh's faith in the Indian political system has been shaken by events such as anti-Sikh riots that followed Indira Gandhi's assassination, in which major Congress politicians are alleged to be involved.