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assassination and attempt
* 1974 – Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee.
* 1945 – An assassination attempt is made on Japan's prime minister, Kantarō Suzuki.
As Alfonso XIII and Ena were returning from the wedding, they narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by Mateu Morral who threw a bomb from a high window ; instead, the bomb explosion killed or injured many bystanders and members of the Royal procession.
While not directly connected to the strike, Berkman was tied in for the assassination attempt.
* 1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
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.
Law professor Ken Gromley's book The Death of American Virtue reveals that Clinton escaped a 1996 assassination attempt in the Philippines by terrorists working for Osama bin Laden.
Busembaum's Medulla had been burnt in Toulouse in 1757 because of its justification of regicide, deemed particularly scandalous after Damiens ' assassination attempt against Louis XV.
In 1953, seven days after surviving an assassination attempt, Wu Kuo-chen lost his position as governor of Taiwan Province to Chiang Ching-kuo.
In 1933, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was fatally wounded in Miami, Florida during a failed assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.
De Vries kills Yueh but he also dies with Leto in the assassination attempt ; however Harkonnen survives.
As punishment for a failed assassination attempt against him, Harkonnen forces Feyd to single-handedly slaughter all the female slaves who serve as Feyd's lovers.
* 1976 – An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley.
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.
However, relations were strained for a time following the 26 June 1995 assassination attempt against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak as he was leaving the OAU summit meeting in Addis Ababa.
From the reading the king remembered that Mordecai had saved him from an assassination attempt, and had received no reward in return.
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.
* 1957 – Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
* 1999 – In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov.
In January 2005, Conté survived a suspected assassination attempt while making a rare public appearance in the capital Conakry.
According to the archival caption, these men are planning the investigation of the bomb assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler of 8 November 1939 in Munich.
The Archduke knew that the visit would be dangerous, knowing his uncle, Emperor Franz Josef, had been the subject of an assassination attempt by the Black Hand in 1911.
Yet so deep was the rift in Greek society, that on his return to Greece, an assassination attempt was made on Venizelos by two royalist former officers.
Zogu soon stepped aside, however, handing over the premiership to Verlaci in the wake of a financial scandal and an assassination attempt by a young radical that left Zogu wounded.

assassination and prompted
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.
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.
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.

assassination and Amin
He has admitted to at one stage contemplating the assassination of Idi Amin while Foreign Secretary but settled instead to backing with money for arms purchases to President Nyerere of Tanzania in his armed attack on Uganda which led to the exile of Amin to Saudi Arabia.
At the time of the assassination of Amin, Karmal was exiled and was the Afghan ambassador to Prague, Czechoslovakia.
In the aftermath of the assassination, Amin Gemayel, the eldest son of Pierre Gemayel, was elected President of the Lebanese Republic.
In the aftermath of the assassination, Amin Gemayel, current president of the party, was elected President of the Lebanese Republic.
Soon after the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan, Amin was appointed as Ministry of Supply, and became was also a member of Pakistan National Assembly from 1947 until 1954.
The assassination of Mir Akbar Khyber led Taraki, along with Hafizullah Amin ( the organiser of the revolution ) and Babrak Karmal, to initiate the Saur Revolution and establish the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

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