CHRONOLOGY

March 15, 44 BC—Julius Caesar in Rome

May 14, 1610—Henri IV of France in Paris

July 13, 1793—Jean-Paul Marat in Paris

June 28, 1914—Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

August 21, 1940—Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico City

July 20, 1944—Attempt on Adolf Hitler by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg at the Wolf’s Lair, East Prussia

August 22, 1962—Attempt on French president Charles de Gaulle outside Paris

November 2, 1963—Ngo Dinh Diem in Saigon

November 22, 1963—John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas

June 6, 1968—Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles, California

November 28, 1971—Jordanian prime minister Wasfi al-Tal in Cairo

December 20, 1973—Spanish prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco in Madrid

August 23, 1974—Detective Inspector Peter Flanagan in Omagh, Northern Ireland

April 4, 1979—Ali Bhutto, father of Benazir Bhutto, executed in Rawalpindi, Pakistan

August 27, 1979—Lord Mountbatten in County Sligo, Ireland

May 5, 1981—Three Bonanno crime family members in a Brooklyn nightclub. Vito Rizzuto was believed to be one of the gunmen.

October 6, 1981—Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat in Cairo

September 14, 1982—Lebanese president-elect Bachir Gemayel in Beirut

October 12, 1984—Attempt on Margaret Thatcher in Brighton, England

June 14, 1985—Hijacking of TWA 847

February 16, 1992—Hezbollah secretary-general Abbas al-Musawi in Nabatiyah Governorate, Lebanon

April 17, 1993—Turkish president Turgut Özal in Ankara (possible assassination)

September 25, 1997—Attempt on Hammas official Khaled Mashal in Amman

November 23, 2006—Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko, former Russian secret service officer, in London

December 27, 2007—Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi, Pakistan

February 12, 2008—Hajj Radwan (Imad Mughniyah) in Damascus