President William McKinley’s assassination in 1901
A young anarchist known as Leon Czolgosz shot McKinley while he was at a fair in Buffalo, New York. Unfortunately, McKinley died only eight days later. Even if he wasn’t as well known as many other figures on the list, his death still led to a modern version of the Secret Service, which is in charge of protecting the president.
Russian Tsar Nicholas II’s assassination in 1918
The tsar, alongside his wife and their five children, was brutally shot to death in a basement. Their executors were the Bolsheviks, a revolutionary socialist group, who had been secretly holding them, hostages, for many months. It was a brutal and awfully performed execution, mainly because the children had hidden diamonds sewn into their clothes. However, the gems acted as a bulletproof vest, prolonging the commission longer than planned.
