Tuesday, May 14, 2013

List of international television channels

  • ABS-CBN-TFC (The Filipino Channel) - international television network, based in the Philippines; distributed through cable and DTH subscriptions in Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and North America. A service of ABS-CBN Global, a fully owned subsidiary of ABS-CBN.
  • Abu Dhabi TV - worldwide Arabic-language channel
  • AFN American Forces Network, broadcasts worldwide via satellite, only available to US Forces and their families, but is available in South Korea.
  • Al Jazeera - based in Qatar, Arabic language
  • Arirang - Korea international Broadcasting Foundation, based in the Republic of Korea, English language
  • BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation, Worlds oldest TV Channel, based in the United Kingdom. Operating BBC World News news and information service, BBC Entertainment and BBC Lifestyle general entertainment and lifestyle services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa; BBC programming available in North America through local channels- BBC America, BBC Canada and BBC Kids.
  • BBC World Service - The Worlds oldest International Radio Station, programmes are broadcast in over 50 languages.
  • BFBS - British Forces Broadcasting Service, broadcast to British Armed Forces bases/ships around the world via satellite.
  • Cartoon Network - based in USA, distributed worldwide
  • CCTV - the major state television broadcaster in mainland China
  • CNN - several channels devoted to news broadcasting
  • Deutsche Welle, DW, (pronounced deh-veh) - based in Germany, also in English and Spanish
  • Discovery Channel - several channels devoted to science, technology, health, history, etc.
  • Disney Channel, based in the United States
  • FOX, available everywhere in the world, FOX owns channels like National Geographic Channel, FX and BabyTV which is produced worldwide.
  • EWTN - Catholic channel broadcasting across the world from Alabama.
  • Fox News - 24-hour news channel
  • KTV5 International and AksyonTV International - the television network in the Philippines which is a subsidiary of PLDT and covers Africa, Middle East and Europe
  • France 24, new 24-hour news network in English and French based in France
  • TV Globo Internacional - Brazilian broadcaster, worldwide distribution
  • MTV - based in USA but with regionalized versions around the world (MTV2).
  • NHK World - International version of Japanese national television NHK, broadcasts in English but focused on news
  • NHK World Premium - Broadcasts a mixture of news, sports and entertainment in Japanese worldwide via satellite as a subscription service
  • Press TV, 24-hour news network in English and based in Iran
  • RAI International - Italian state broadcaster, worldwide distribution
  • RTP Internacional - Portuguese state broadcaster, worldwide distribution
  • Russia Today - Russian news channel broadcasting in English 24/7 in over 100 countries spread over five continents, available on cable, satellite and online
  • Sky News - British based news channel broadcast internationally.
  • Sun Channel Tourism Television - 24-hour Tourism network in Spanish
  • Sony Entertainment Television Asia - Indian entertainment channel broadcasting in Hindi.
  • TBN - Christian television network based in the USA, worldwide distribution
  • Televisa - Mexican broadcaster, worldwide distribution
  • Thai Global Network
  • TV5MONDE - French language, worldwide distribution
  • Telefe Argentinian broadcaster, worldwide distribution
  • TVE Internacional - Spanish state broadcaster, worldwide distribution
  • Voice of America - is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. Government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Programmes are produced in 45 languages.
  • VTV4 - International Vietnamese channel broadcasting from Hanoi.
  • Zee TV - Indian entertainment channel broadcasting in Hindi.

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10 Most Cruel Rulers Ever in history of the world./Nadh Mr


Idi Amin Dada
10 Most Cruel Rulers Ever
One of the most cruel rulers ever, Idi Amin Dada was the military dictator and President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King’s African Rifles in 1946, Amin held the rank of Major General in the post-colonial Ugandan Army and became its Commander before seizing power in the military coup of January 1971, deposing Milton Obote. He later promoted himself to Field Marshal while he was the head of state. His rule was characterized by human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, extra judicial killings and the expulsion of Indians from Uganda. The estimates range of people killed from 80,000 to 500,000.
He hate Europeans “We Africans used to carry Europeans, but now Europeans are carrying us. We are now the masters … They came from Britian and wanted to show that I really have power in my country.” Amin was eventually overthrown, but until his death, he held that Uganda needed him and he never expressed remorse for the abuses of his regime. On 20 July 2003, died at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from kidney failure.
Attila The Hun
10 Most Cruel Rulers Ever
Attila (Attila the Hun), was the ruler of the Huns from 434 to 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire, which stretched from the Ural River to the Rhine River and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea. He was considered as one of the history`s greatest villains. In much of Western Europe, he is remembered as the epitome of cruelty and rapacity. He crossed the Danube twice and plundered the Balkans, but was unable to take Constantinople. He also attempted to conquer Roman Gaul (France), crossing the Rhine in 451 and marching as far as Aurelianum (Orleans) before being defeated at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains.
Subsequently he invaded Italy, devastating the northern provinces, but was unable to take Rome. He planned for further campaigns against the Romans. He returned in 452 to claim his marriage to Honoria anew, invading and ravaging Italy along the way. Attila drowned in his own blood on his wedding night. He died in the early months of 453.
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan was the founder and Great Khan (emperor) of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his demise. He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of northeast Asia. After founding the Mongol Empire and being proclaimed “Genghis Khan”, he started the Mongol invasions that resulted in the conquest of most of Eurasia. He was a warrior and ruler. starting from obscure and insignificant beginnings, brought all the nomadic tribes of Mongolia under the rule of himself and his family in a rigidly disciplined military state.
Pol Pot
most cruel leader in the world Pol Pot
Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976 to 1979. Pol Pot became leader of Cambodia on April 17, 1975. During his time in power, his radical communist government forced the mass evacuations of cities, killed or displaced millions of people, and left a legacy of disease and starvation. Under his leadership, his government caused the deaths of at least one million people from forced labor, starvation, disease, torture, or execution.
Vlad Tepes
Vlad Tepes, Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia
Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (Vlad the Impaler) known for executing his enemies by impalement, and was a three-time Voivode of Wallachia, ruling mainly from 1456 to 1462, the period of the incipient Ottoman conquest of the Balkans. Vlad is best known for the legends of the exceedingly cruel punishments he imposed during his reign and for serving as the primary inspiration for the vampire. He was a fan of various forms of torture including disemboweling and rectal and facial impalement. He tortured thousands while he ate and drunk among the corpses. He impaled every person in the city of Amlas nearly 20,000 men, women and children. Vlad tortured the people ordering him to be skinned, boiled, decapitated, blinded, strangled, hanged, burned, roasted, hacked, nailed, buried alive, stabbed, etc. He also liked to cut off noses, ears, sexual organs and limbs.
Ivan IV of Russia
Ivan the Terrible
Ivan IV of Russia (Ivan IV Vasilyevich), also know as Ivan the Terrible, was the Grand Duke of Muscovy from 1533 to 1547 and was the first ruler of Russia and the first to be proclaimed tsar of Russia (from 1547). Historic sources present disparate accounts of Ivan’s complex personality: he was described as intelligent and devout, yet given to rages and prone to episodic outbreaks of mental illness. He enjoyed burning 1000s of people in frying pans, and was fond of impaling people. Ivan’s soldiers built walls around the perimeter of the city in order to prevent the people of the city escaping. Between 500 and 1000 people were gathered every day by the troops, then tortured and killed in front of Ivan and his son. He is also remembered for his paranoiac suspiciousness and cruel persecution of nobility. Ivan died from a stroke while playing chess with Bogdan Belsky on 28 March.
Adolph Eichmann
Adolph Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann was born in March 19, 1906, in Solingen, a small industrial city in the Rhineland. He was a German and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. He was hanged by the state of Israel for his part in the Nazi extermination of Jews during World War II. “The death of five million Jews on my conscience gives me extraordinary satisfaction.”
Leopold II of Belgium
Leopold II of Belgium
Leopold II was the King of the Belgians, and is chiefly remembered for the founding and brutal exploitation of the Congo Free State. Born in Brussels the second son of Leopold I and Louise-Marie of Orléans, he succeeded his father to the throne on 17 December 1865 and remained king until his death. Leopold created the Congo Free State, a private project undertaken to extract rubber and ivory in the Congo region of central Africa, which relied on forced labour and resulted in the deaths of approximately 3 million Congolese.
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party. He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. Hitler was at the centre of the founding of Nazism, the start of World War II, and the Holocaust. By the end of the second world war, Hitler’s policies of territorial conquest and racial subjugation had brought death and destruction to tens of millions of people, including the genocide of some six million Jews in what is now known as the Holocaust. On 30 April 1945, Hitler committed suicide, shooting himself while simultaneously biting into a cyanide capsule.
Josef Stalin
Josef Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 until his death in 5 March 1953. Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the Russian Revolution in 1917. Stalin probably exercised greater political power than any other figure in history. In the 1930s, by his orders, millions of peasants were either killed or permitted to starve to death. Stalin brought about the deaths of more than 20 million of his own people while holding the Soviet Union in an iron grip for 29 years.
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List of assassinations and assassination attempts

Assassin(s) Year Target Result Notes
Ehud 1200 BC Moabite king Eglon Killed Stabbed to death in his throne room (Judges 3:12-30).
Arda Mulissi 681 BC Assyrian king Sennacherib Killed Stabbed to death while at prayer in a temple, or possibly crushed under a winged child angelica.[1]
Jing Ke 227 BC Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang Survived One of the earliest documented attempts.
A strongman hired by Zhang Liang 218 BC Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang Survived Long-distance heavy hammer (30-kg) throwing; the origin of a Chinese idiom 誤中副車 ("mistakenly hit the escort carriage").
Achillas, Lucius Septimius and Salvius 48 BC Roman leader and rival of Julius Caesar, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus Killed
Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and others 44 BC Roman Dictator Julius Caesar Killed Resulted in Civil War and indirectly in the end of the Roman Republic
Cassius Chaerea, members of the Praetorian Guard, and others 41 Roman Emperor Caligula Killed
Uncertain, reputed to be Agrippina the Younger on behalf of Nero 54 Roman Emperor Claudius Killed
Various freedmen, possibly with the help of the Praetorian Guard 96 Roman Emperor Domitian Killed
Members of the Praetorian Guard 192 Roman Emperor Commodus Killed
Fan Qiang, Zhang Da 221 military general of Shu Han Zhang Fei Killed
Members of the Praetorian Guard 238 Roman Emperors Pupienus and Balbinus Killed See Year of the Six Emperors.
Mucapor and members of the Praetorian Guard 275 Roman Emperor Aurelian Killed
Abu Lulu 644 Umar, 3rd Caliph of Islam Killed
Abd-al-Rahman ibn Muljam 661 Ali ibn Abi Talib Killed
Nandhini - Pazhuvetrudaiyar 969 Aditya Karikalan Killed
Hashshashin 1192 Conrad of Montferrat Killed
Pazzi Conspiracy 1478 Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici Killed (Giuliano)/Survived (Lorenzo) Giuliano died, after being stabbed 19 times, but Lorenzo escaped.
Oda Nobunaga 1557 Sengoku period Oda Nobuyuki Killed
James Hamilton 1570 James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray Killed The first assassination carried out with a firearm.
Akechi Mitsuhide 1582 Sengoku period Oda Nobunaga Killed
Balthasar Gérard 1584 Dutch Stadtholder William the Silent Killed
Jacques Clément 1589 King Henry III of France Killed Religious-political antagonism.
Guy Fawkes 1605 King James I of England, Parliament of England Survived See the Gunpowder Plot.
François Ravaillac 1610 King Henry IV of France Killed Religious-political antagonism.
John Felton 1628 George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham Killed Stabbed to death. Felton believed he had been passed over for promotion by Buckingham. The event is important in the plot of The Three Musketeers.
Army officers 1747 King Nader Shah Killed He was able to kill two of the assassins before dying.
Jacob Johan Anckarström 1792 King Gustav III of Sweden Killed The king was shot at a masquerade ball and died two weeks later from his wounds.
Charlotte Corday 1793 French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat Killed Later often seen as a patriotic act.
James Hadfield 1800 King George III of the United Kingdom Survived
François-Joseph Carbon 1800 French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte Survived Detonated an explosion by the roadside in an attempt to kill Bonaparte, which he narrowly missed. The attempt is referred to as the Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise.
John Bellingham 1812 UK Prime Minister Spencer Perceval Killed First and only U.K. Prime Minister to be assassinated.
Richard Lawrence 1835 US President Andrew Jackson Survived First attempt to kill a US President, January 30. Both guns misfired.
Edward Oxford 1840 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom Survived Oxford fired twice, but both bullets missed.
Unknown 1842 Former Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs Survived Orrin Porter Rockwell, a close associate of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., charged but acquitted of all charges.
János Libényi 1853 Austrian Emperor, King of Bohemia Franz Joseph I of Austria Survived Attacked with a dagger to the back of the neck. Survived due to the thick collar of his uniform.
Cipriano Ferrandini 1861 US President Abraham Lincoln Survived see Baltimore Plot
Unknown 1864 US President Abraham Lincoln Survived Shot at while riding alone. Though he was not hurt, a bullet hole was discovered in his hat. See the List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plots
John Wilkes Booth 1865 US President Abraham Lincoln Killed First assassination of a sitting United States President. See Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Ferdinand Cohen-Blind 1866 Prussian Minister President Otto von Bismarck Survived
Patrick J. Whelan 1868 Canadian Member of Parliament Thomas D'Arcy McGee Killed Only Canadian victim of assassination at the federal level.
Henry James O'Farrell 1868 Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Survived Shot through the spine, first attempted political assassination in Australia.
Aurelio Sánchez 1871 Bolivian President Mariano Melgarejo Killed Assassin's sister, Juana, was the President's lover.
Sher Ali Afridi 1872 Viceroy of India Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo Killed Stabbed while inspecting prisons in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Eduard Kullmann 1874 Chancellor of Germany Otto von Bismarck Survived The assassination attempt was a reaction to the Kulturkampf
Faustino Rayo 1875 Ecuadorian President Gabriel García Moreno Killed Shot outside Quito Cathedral, owing to his pro-religious views.
Giovanni Passannante 1878 King Umberto I of Italy Survived Attacked with a dagger during a royal parade in Naples. He was slightly wounded in one arm. The prime minister Benedetto Cairoli, while defending the king, was injured in a leg.
Charles J. Guiteau 1881 US President James Garfield Killed Died 80 days following the shooting. See James A. Garfield assassination.
Ignacy Hryniewiecki 1881 Tsar Alexander II of Russia Killed Assassination plot concluded with bombs.
Irish National Invincibles (suspectedly led by James Carey 1882 Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke Killed Stabbed, see Phoenix Park murders.
Tsuda Sanzo 1891 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia Survived The Tsar was attacked with a sabre during a state visit to Japan.
Sante Geronimo Caserio 1894 French President Sadi Carnot Killed Stabbed to death after a speech in Lyon.
Mirza Reza Kermani 1896 King Naser al-Din Shah Qajar Killed Ironically assassinated on the day of his fiftieth kingship ceremony.
Frederick Russell Burnham 1896 Mlimo, the Ndebele religious leader Killed Effectively ended the Second Matabele War.
Michele Angiolillo 1897 Spanish Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo Killed Shot at a spa in Mondragón, northern Spain.
Luigi Lucheni 1898 Empress Elisabeth of Austria Killed Lucheni attacked the Empress randomly on the street of Geneva. Elisabeth was stabbed in the heart once with a sharp needle file. Due to her extremely tight corset, she had no idea she has been wounded and collapsed suddenly two hours later due to slow internal hemorrhaging.
Unknown 1900 William Goebel, Governor of Kentucky Killed
Gaetano Bresci 1900 King Umberto I of Italy Killed He was shot four times with a revolver. The reason was the royal decoration of the general Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris, who ordered a bloody repression in Milan in 1898. Influenced Leon Czologsz to kill William McKinley in 1901.
Leon Czolgosz 1901 US President William McKinley Killed Died 8 days later of gangrene; see William McKinley assassination.
Army officers led by Dragutin Dimitrijević 1903 King Alexander I of Serbia Killed Part of the May Overthrow.
Eugen Schauman 1904 Governor-General of Finland Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov Killed Happens on day described in James Joyce's novel Ulysses, is briefly mentioned in the book
Albert Horsley, aka Harry Orchard 1905 Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg Killed Steunenberg killed by a bomb rigged to his front gate
Mateu Morral 1906 King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain Survived Royal couple attacked by bomb after their wedding; weapon missed them and members of royal procession killed instead.
Manuel Buíça and Alfredo Costa 1908 King Carlos I of Portugal and his heir, Prince Royal Luís Filipe Killed Shot by assassins sympathetic to Republican interests and aided by anti-monarchic society Portuguese Carbonária.
An Jung-geun 1909 Prime Minister of Japan Itoh Hirobumi Killed
John Schrank 1912 former US President Theodore Roosevelt Survived Shot at campaign event; Roosevelt continued with his speech.
Alexandros Schinas 1913 King George I of Greece Killed Possible conspiracy.
Gavrilo Princip 1914 Austro-Hungarian Archduke Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Killed Considered the start of World War I.
Raoul Villain 1914 French socialist leader Jean Jaurès Killed The assassin was tried and acquitted in 1919.
Fritz Joubert Duquesne 1916 Lord Kitchener, British Field Marshal and Secretary of State for War Killed Killed on the HMS Hampshire after the cruiser struck a mine; Duquesne falsely claimed to have sabotaged Hampshire.
Fanny Kaplan 1918 Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin Survived Shot on factory meeting, Fanny Kaplan was captured and executed by Bolsheviks. Lenin died 6 years later due to unrelated causes, but within Russian pop culture, Kaplan is still widely considered to have killed him.
Officers under Colonel Jesús Guajardo 1919 Emiliano Zapata Killed Shot at his hacienda in Mexico.
Sonny O'Neill 1922 Michael Collins Killed Killed in an ambush firefight near the end of Irish Civil War.
Eligiusz Niewiadomski 1922 First Polish President Gabriel Narutowicz Killed Killed five days after his inauguration, while attending the opening of an art exhibit at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.
Unknown 1923 Mexican statesman Pancho Villa Killed Shot while being driven in an open car at Parral in Mexico. His bodyguards Rafael Madreno and Claro Huertado were also killed.
Violet Gibson 1926 Benito Mussolini Survived
Severino Di Giovanni 1928 Herbert Hoover Survived Would-be assassin arrested before he could even place the bombs on the train.
Paul Gorguloff 1932 French President Paul Doumer Killed Shot at a book fair at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, Paris.
Giuseppe Zangara 1933 Anton Cermak Killed Killed in Miami, Florida during a visit of president-elect of Franklin Roosevelt.
Paul Hudl, Otto Planetta and other Austrian Nazis 1934 Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss Killed Part of a failed coup d'état, the July Putsch.
Vlado Chernozemski 1934 King Alexander I of Yugoslavia Killed Killed in Marseille during a state visit.
Carl Weiss 1935 US Senator Huey Long Killed Shot in a Louisiana State Capitol hallway.
George Andrew McMahon 1936 King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom Survived Would-be assassin's revolver fell out of his hand when he was approached by police from behind.
Johann Georg Elser 1939 Adolf Hitler Survived
Udham Singh 1940 Michael O'Dwyer Killed Killed during a speech at Caxton Hall, London.
Ramón Mercader 1940 Lev Bronstein Trotsky Killed Killed by penetrating head injury from an ice axe.
Vasil Laçi 1941 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy Survived
Jan Kubiš, Jozef Gabčík 1942 SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich Killed
NKVD 1942 German ambassador to Turkey Franz von Papen Survived The assassin's bomb detonated prematurely, killing him and slightly wounding von Papen.
Uncertain 1943 Philippine President José P. Laurel Survived
Armia Krajowa 1944 SS and Police Leader of the Warsaw District Franz Kutschera Killed See the Operation Kutschera.
Claus von Stauffenberg 1944 Chancellor and Führer of Germany Adolf Hitler Survived See the July 20 plot.
Nathuram Godse 1948 Political and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi Killed
Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola 1950 US President Harry S. Truman Survived Attempt to draw attention to the Puerto Rico independence movement, in which both attempted killers were active. See Truman assassination attempt.
Unknown 1951 Former Prime Minister of Lebanon Riad Al Solh Killed Shot at Amman Airport during visit to Jordan.
Khalil Tahmasebi 1951 Prime Minister of Iran Haj Ali Razmara Killed Shot in a mosque
Unknown, believed to be agent of Amin al-Husseini 1952 King Abdullah bin Hussein of Jordan Killed Shot in a mosque in Amman.
Izola Curry 1958 Martin Luther King Jr. Survived Stabbed in the chest with a mail cutter during a book signing in New York City.
Talduwe Somarama 1959 Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Solomon Bandaranaike Killed Assassinated by a Buddhist monk as part of a conspiracy.
Otoya Yamaguchi 1960 Inejiro Asanuma Killed Asanuma was pierced to assassin's bayonet while making a speech.
Juan Orta and Dr. Anthony Verona 1960 Fidel Castro Survived Attempts to introduce poison supplied by the CIA into Castro's food; Castro supposedly survived 638 assassination attempts in all.
Richard Paul Pavlick 1960 US President-elect John F. Kennedy Survived December 11   See: John F. Kennedy
Jean Bastien-Thiry and the OAS 1962 French President Charles de Gaulle Survived
Nguyen Van Cu and Pham Phu Quoc 1962 President of the Republic of Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem Survived See 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing
Believed to be Lee Harvey Oswald 1963 Retired US General and political activist Edwin Walker Survived Notable for preceding Oswald's successful attempt on the life of John F. Kennedy
Nguyen Van Troi 1963 Robert Mcnamara and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr Survived
Byron De La Beckwith 1963 Medgar Evers Killed Evers, an African American activist and NAACP leader, was shot by De La Beckwith, a Ku Klux Klan member, who was convicted in 1994.
Generally believed to be Nguyen Van Nhung and Duong Hieu Nghia, on orders from Duong Van Minh 1963 President of the Republic of Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem Killed Part of the 1963 South Vietnamese coup. See Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem.
Believed to be Lee Harvey Oswald 1963 US President John F. Kennedy Killed For general information on the incident, see John F. Kennedy assassination. The US Government's official report concluded that Oswald acted alone, however a subsequent investigation contradicted the Warren Commission's findings. See: House Select Committee on Assassinations (1979)
Jack Ruby 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald Killed First live murder ever seen on US television
Norman 3X Butler, Thomas 15X Johnson, Talmadge Hayer 1965 Activist Malcolm X Killed Tensions and departure from the Nation of Islam
Dmitri Tsafendas 1966 Prime Minister of South Africa Hendrik Verwoerd Killed Tsafendas, a parliamentary messenger, stabbed Verwoerd to death with a dagger in the House of Assembly due to his opposition to Verwoerd's policy of apartheid.
Unknown 1967 American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell Survived Fired at twice by a person hiding behind his driveway pillars, narrowly missing his head.
John Patler 1967 American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell Killed Shot in the chest as he was leaving a laundromat.
Uncertain, believed to be James Earl Ray or Loyd Jowers 1968 Political activist Martin Luther King, Jr. Killed Ray was convicted on a guilty plea but later recanted, while a 1999 civil trial convicted Jowers and 'unknown others', while also noting that 'governmental agencies were parties' to the plot. See Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Josef Bachmann 1968 German Extra-Parliamentary Opposition leader Rudi Dutschke Survived Dutschke was targeted by the vehemently anti-communist Bachmann due to his prominent role in the left-wing German student movement of the 1960s and 1970s. While Dutschke survived the assassination attempt, he was badly injured and died of related medical issues 11 years later.
Sirhan Sirhan 1968 US Senator Robert F. Kennedy Killed See Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Chicago Police with FBI involvement 1969 Fred Hampton Political activist,Black Panther Party Killed Communist black activist. Tensions with the Police and American Government.
Viktor Ilyin 1969 Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev Survived See Brezhnev assassination attempt
Huang Wen-hsiung 1970 Vice Prime Minister of Republic of China Chiang Ching-kuo Survived
Members of the Front de libération du Québec 1970 Vice Premier of Quebec Pierre Laporte Killed Kidnapped and later killed. One of only two political assassinations in Canadian history.
Juan Montañez 1971 King Curtis Killed Stabbed to death on the streets of New York.
Arthur Bremer 1972 US Presidential candidate George Wallace Survived Wallace was paralyzed for life
ETA 1973 President of the Government of Spain Luis Carrero Blanco Killed The murder of Luis Carrero Blanco was, according to ETA, then to intensify existing divisions within the Franco regime between the "openness" and "purists".
Erskine "Buck" Burrows and Larry Tacklyn 1973 Governor of Bermuda Richard Sharples Killed Shot outside Bermuda's Government House. Sharples' aide-de-camp Captain Hugh Sayers was also killed.
Samuel Byck 1974 US President Richard Nixon Survived Attempted to hijack a commercial jet with the intention of crashing it into the White House.
Prince Faisal bin Musa'id 1975 Saudi King Faisal Killed
Soldiers of the Chadian Army 1975 First President of Chad François Tombalbaye Killed
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad and coup 1975 First Bangladeshi President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Killed The coup was planned by disgruntled Awami League colleagues and military officers who were led by Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, and they targeted to exterminate his entire family.
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme 1975 US President Gerald Ford Survived
Sara Jane Moore 1975 US President Gerald Ford Survived
Chilean DINA agents 1976 Orlando Letelier Killed Killed by a car bomb, September 21, 1976, along with his American assistant, Ronni Moffitt.
Red Army Faction 1977 German Prosecutor-General Siegfried Buback Killed
Dan White 1978 San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk Killed Killed over not reappointing Dan White supervisor. See Moscone–Milk assassinations.
Red Brigades 1978 Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro Killed Kidnapped and later killed. See Kidnapping of Aldo Moro.
Larry Layton and other members of the Peoples Temple 1978 Leo Ryan, Congressman from California Killed Killed in Guyana during an official visit to investigate allegations of abuse of American citizens at the Jonestown compound of the Peoples Temple religious organization. See Leo_Ryan#Jungle_ambush.
Raymond Lee Harvey 1979 US President Jimmy Carter Survived
Kim Jae-kyu 1979 South Korean President Park Chung-hee Killed See Park Chung-hee assassination.
Rolf Clemens-Wagner, member of the Red Army Faction 1979 Supreme Commander of NATO Alexander Haig Survived A land mine blew up under the bridge on which Haig's car was traveling, narrowly missing Haig's car and wounding three of his bodyguards in a following car.
Members of the Irish National Liberation Army 1979 British politician Airey Neave Killed Car bombing outside Palace of Westminster.
Thomas McMahon 1979 Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Killed Killed along with three others while on a fishing trip with his family by a bomb planted onto his boat by McMahon. McMahon was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, who claimed responsibility for the attack.
Unknown 1980 Archbishop of San Salvador Óscar Romero Killed Shot at a hospital chapel by unknown hand.
Mark David Chapman 1980 John Lennon Killed Obsession with The Catcher in the Rye. See Assassination of John Lennon.
John Hinckley, Jr. 1981 US President Ronald Reagan Survived To impress actress Jodie Foster. See Reagan assassination attempt.
Khalid Islambouli 1981 Egyptian President Anwar Al Sadat Killed Rare attack carried out by a group.
Mehmet Ali Ağca 1981 Pope John Paul II Survived See Pope John Paul II assassination attempt.
Group of army officers 1981 Bangladeshi President Ziaur Rahman Killed Plotted by a faction of officers of Bangladesh Army led by General Abul Monjur.
Juan María Fernández y Krohn 1982 Pope John Paul II Survived Attempted to stab the Pope with a bayonet.
Habib Tanious Shartouni 1982 Lebanese President Bachir Gemayel Killed Bomb explosion in the Phalange's Beirut headquarters.
Rogelio B. Moreno 1983 Philippine Senator Benigno Aquino Killed Believed to have been ordered by then President Ferdinand Marcos.
North Korea 1983 South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan Survived Bomb explosion took place at the Martyrs' Mausoleum in Yangon, Burma during the president's visit. See Rangoon bombing
Satwant Singh and Beant Singh 1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi Killed Assassinated by personal bodyguards.
Provisional Irish Republican Army 1984 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Survived Detonated a bomb at the Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton.
Unknown 1986 Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme Killed Shot on his way home from a cinema on a street in central Stockholm. See Assassination of Olof Palme.
Members of Action Directe 1986 CEO of Renault Georges Besse Killed Shot while emerging from his car in Paris.
Lebanese Forces 1987 Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami Killed Only victim of helicopter bombing.
Uncertain reputed to be various members of SA government and the CCB 1989 Namibian Human Rights Lawyer Anton Lubowski Killed Shot in front of his home in central Windhoek, Namibia.
Dieter Kaufmann 1990 German Federal Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble Survived Shot in back and face after an election campaign event in Oppenau. Has been paralysed and using a wheelchair ever since.
IRA members 1990 British MP Ian Gow Killed Killed by a car bomb near his house.
Provisional Irish Republican Army 1991 British Prime Minister John Major Survived Mortar attack during a meeting at 10 Downing Street
Thenmuli Rajaratnam 1991 Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi Killed Killed in an explosion triggered by a LTTE suicide bomber. First head of state to be killed by a suicide bomber. See Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.
Janusz Walus 1993 South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani Killed Anti-Communist killing
Fourteen men under employment of Saddam Hussein 1993 US President George H.W. Bush Survived
Unknown 1993 Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa Killed Attack carried out by an LTTE suicide bomber on May Day parade.
Unknown 1993 Mexican Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo Killed Assassinated among 6 other people by anti-catholic group.
Mario Aburto 1994 Mexican Candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio Killed Assassinated rally at campaign in Tijuana.
Uncertain; see main article for theories 1994 Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira Killed Plane carrying the two leaders shot down by unknown attackers with a surface-to-air missile. The attack was the catalyst for the Rwandan Genocide. See Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira.
Frank Eugene Corder 1994 US President Bill Clinton Survived Corder was the only casualty.
Francisco Martin Duran 1994 US President Bill Clinton Survived Duran fired at least 29 shots with a semi-automatic rifle at the White House from a fence overlooking the north lawn before being tackled by pedestrians.
André Dallaire 1995 Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien Survived Dallaire viewed himself as a "secret agent" avenging the loss of sovereigntist forces in the 1995 Quebec referendum, and that he believed killing the Prime Minister would cause him to "become a hero for the nation".[2]
Ramzi Yousef 1995 Pope John Paul II Survived Part of Operation Bojinka.
Yigal Amir 1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Killed Attack carried out by Israeli opposed to Oslo Accords. See Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
Osama Bin Laden 1996 US President Bill Clinton Survived Attempt to bomb Clinton's presidential motorcade driving over a bridge in Manila, Philippines.
Byron Looper 1998 Tennessee State Senator Tommy Burks Killed Shot while campaigning for election by his political opponent. His wife Charlotte won the election in his place as a write-in candidate.
Michael Abram 1999 George Harrison Survived Abram broke into Harrison's house and repeatedly stabbed him.
Nairi Hunanyan 1999 Armenian Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan and Speaker Karen Demirchyan Killed The attack took place in the Armenian Parliament. See 1999 Armenian parliament shooting.
ETA 2000 Member of the Basque Parliament Fernando Buesa Killed Car bombing
Robert Pickett 2001 US President George W. Bush Survived see 2001 White House shooting
Mohamed Atta 2001 US President George W. Bush Survived
Dipendra 2001 King Birendra of Nepal and other royal family members of same country Killed See Nepalese royal massacre.
Volkert van der Graaf 2002 Dutch Election Candidate Pim Fortuyn Killed The attack took place in a parking lot outside a radio studio in Hilversum, where Fortuyn had just given an interview.
Maxime Brunerie 2002 French President Jacques Chirac Survived Brunerie attempted to shoot the President during the Bastille Day Military Parade.
Mijailo Mijailović 2003 Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh Killed Lindh was stabbed while visiting a shopping centre in Stockholm. She died the following morning.
Zvezdan Jovanović 2003 Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić Killed Jovanović killed his victim with a sniper rifle (a relatively rare type of assassination); see Assassination of Zoran Đinđić.
Chen Yi-hsiung 2004 President of Republic of China Chen Shui-bian Survived See 3-19 shooting incident.
Presumed to be Chechen Islamists 2004 President of Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov Killed Killed along with about 30 others in a football stadium during a Soviet Victory Day parade, by a bomb that had been built into the concrete of one of the stadium's supporting columns.
Mohammed Bouyeri 2004 Dutch film maker (and great-great-nephew of painter Vincent van Gogh) Theo van Gogh Killed Van Gogh was cycling to work in Amsterdam. He was shot on his bicycle eight times with an HS2000 handgun. Bouyeri also tried to decapitate van Gogh with one knife, and stabbed him in the chest with another.
Unknown, presumed to be Hezbulla in concert with Syrian intelligence services 2005 Former Lebanese Prime Minister and billionaire Rafik Hariri Killed Assassination via car bomb in Beirut.
Vladimir Arutyunian 2005 U.S. President George W. Bush and Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili Survived Threw a hand grenade at Bush, which failed to detonate.
Unknown; many theories 2006 Journalist Anna Politkovskaya Killed Shot in the elevator block of her apartment in Moscow. See Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya.
Unknown, though believed to be figures within the government of Russia 2006 Former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko Killed Acute radiation syndrome via ingestion of polonium-210. See Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko.
Ogün Samast 2007 Turkish citizen of Armenian descent editor, journalist and columnist Hrant Dink Killed Fired three shots at Dink's head from the back at point blank range before fleeing the scene on foot. See Assassination of Hrant Dink.
Unknown, widely believed to be Islamic militants 2007 Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto Killed Killed while entering a vehicle upon leaving a political rally for the Pakistan People's Party in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. See Assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Soldiers 2009 President of Guinea-Bissau João Bernardo Vieira Killed Hacked to death during armed attack on his residence in Bissau.
Karst Tates 2009 Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and royal family Survived Attempted to ram the Queen's bus with his car. See 2009 attack on the Dutch Royal Family.
Men under his aide de camp 2009 President of Guinea Moussa Dadis Camara Survived Currently in Burkina Faso
Unknown, widely believed to be Mossad agents 2010 Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, senior Hamas military commander Killed Exact cause unknown; possibilities include suffocation, strangulation, and electrocution. See Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
Casey Brezik 2010 Missouri Governor Jay Nixon Survived Mistakenly stabbed a college dean in a hallway by a lectern where Nixon was to speak. Brezik told police that he thought he had stabbed Nixon.[3][4][5]
Unknown, believed to be two ranch workers 2010 Eugène Terre'Blanche, founder of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging in South Africa Killed He was found hacked and beaten to death at his farm, allegedly killed by two of his workers.
Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri 2011 Salmaan Taseer, 26th Governor of Punjab Killed Killed by one of his security guards due to Taseer's opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy laws
Jared Lee Loughner 2011 Gabrielle Giffords, U.S. Representative from Arizona Survived Shot, along with several staffers, a U.S. District Judge (John Roll, who was killed) and several civilians, at a constituent event in her district. There were a total of at least 6 deaths and 12 injured.
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan 2011 Shahbaz Bhatti, Federal Minister for Minorities of Pakistan Killed Killed due to his opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy laws
Sardar Mohammad 2011 Ahmed Wali Karzai, half-brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai Killed Shot twice in the head and chest by his security guard as he was coming out of his bathroom
Unknown, possibly security guards or members of the Obaida Ibn Jarrah Brigade 2011 Abdul Fatah Younis, commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Libyan Republic Killed Shot due to his prior history before defecting to the NTC
Unknown, possibly members of the Taliban or the Haqqani network. 2011 Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani Killed Assassinated while leading peace negotiations between the internationally recognized Afghan government of Hamid Karzai and the Taliban.
Manssor Arbabsiar 2011 Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States Adel Al-Jubeir Survived Arbabsiar and Golham Shakuri (an Iranian government official) plotted to assassinate the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States by hiring a hitman from a Mexican drug cartel member, who was in fact an undercover DEA agent. See 2011 alleged Iran assassination plot.[6]
Either Liwa al Islam or the Free Syrian Army (both claimed responsibility) 2012 Syria's Defense Minister General Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, former Defense Minister General Hasan Turkmani, and Intelligence and National Security Chief Hisham Ikhtiyar Killed Killed either with a remotely detonated bomb or via suicide attack as part of the Syrian civil war. Several other leading government officials may have been injured or killed.
Unknown; pro-al Qaeda group located in Libya is currently the chief suspect 2012 U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens Killed Stevens was killed by asphyxiation, while three other men were shot and killed after they were moved to a safehouse during an uprising at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. See U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi.
Oktai Enimehmedov 2013 Bulgarian politician Ahmed Dogan Survived Would be assassin went onto the stage as Dogan addressed his party and pointed a gas pistol within a foot of Dogan's head before he was disarmed and beaten up.
Unknown assailants 2013 Tunisian politician Chokri Belaid, leader of the Democratic Patriots' Movement Killed Belaid, a Marxist lawyer and politican, was shot outside his home in El Menzah, sparking protests against the ruling Ennahda party and calls for a general strike.
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