5 assassinations that shocked the world.
(Baonghean.vn) - Regarding the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's brother, Baonghean.vn reviews other shocking assassinations around the world. Most of the victims of these shocking assassinations were famous politicians and artists...
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1. The assassination of US President John F. Kennedy
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| Former U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, while he and his wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, were visiting Dallas, Texas. At the time, Kennedy was the youngest president in American history. |
2. The assassination of John Lennon
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| The assassination of John Lennon, the founding leader of the famous band The Beatles, occurred on the evening of December 8, 1980. This was one of the most notable events of 1980 and one of the most famous assassinations in the world. John Lennon was assassinated while returning home to Manhattan, New York, with his wife Yoko Ono. They had just left a recording studio when Mark David Chapman shot and killed Lennon. After shooting Lennon, Chapman waited for the police to arrive and arrest him. |
3. The assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
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| The assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on December 27, 2007, was considered one of the biggest political events in Pakistan at the time. Bhutto had been living in exile abroad and returned to the country two months before the assassination. At the time, she was a candidate in the Pakistani elections scheduled for January 2008. On the evening of December 27, 2007, Bhutto addressed a large crowd in Rawalpindi to campaign. Immediately after finishing her speech, she was shot three times in the chest and neck by a man who then detonated a suicide bomb. |
4. The assassination of US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens
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| On September 11, 2012, former U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. embassy staff members were killed in protests against a U.S.-produced film deemed blasphemous to the Prophet Muhammad. Protesters attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, throwing grenades and firing shots inside the building. Although security forces returned fire, Libyan officials said the militia was outnumbered and overwhelmed. Ambassador Stevens is believed to have died of asphyxiation in the attack. |
5. The assassination of Russian Ambassador to Türkiye Andrey Karlov
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| The most recent assassination that shocked the world was when a 22-year-old Turkish gunman shot and killed Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov while he was attending the cultural exhibition "Russia Through the Eyes of Türkiye" in Ankara on November 19, 2016. |
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